Ensuring Quality Education for Young Refugees from Syria (12-25 years): a Mapping Exercise - Summary

Author(s)
Wahby, S. et al.
Publication language
English
Pages
4pp
Date published
01 Oct 2014
Type
Plans, policy and strategy
Keywords
Children & youth, Conflict, violence & peace, Education, Forced displacement and migration, Refugee Camps, Targeting, Identification and Profiling
Countries
Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Organisations
University of Oxford Refugee Studies Center

This policy note provides an executive summary of the RSC mapping exercise, Ensuring Quality Education for Young Refugees from Syria (12-25 years). This research focuses on access to education by refugee youth, a crucial yet often overlooked element in the humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis. Outlining educational demand and supply, the report analyses good practice and gaps in education services for refugee youth from Syria (including Palestinian, Kurdish and Turkmen refugee youth) in Jordan, Lebanon, Northern Iraq/Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Turkey.