Jan 2019 – Dec 2022
Forced displacement represents a major barrier to achieving Sustainable Development Goal #4, ensuring inclusive and quality education for all. The EducAid project examines the role of quality education in mitigating the negative educational, socio-economic, and psycho-social effects of forced displacement, with a focus on the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. The Rohingya refugee crisis is one of the worst forced displacement situations and the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. Rohingya refugee children are also facing an education crisis: Access to education was restricted in Myanmar, while education programs are currently serving only few Rohingya refugee children living in camps.
EducAid is an inter-disciplinary, mixed methods project that aims to improve knowledge about 1) whether and how education is contributing to mitigating the effects of forced displacement by comparing in-camp, out-of-camp, and host populations, and 2) how to improve the quality of education programs for conflict-affected populations. The project will generate evidence-based policy recommendations about how to improve the quality of education in situations of conflict and humanitarian crisis. We will do this by mapping the landscape of education programs for Rohingya refugees; conducting a survey with refugees of their education needs, preferences, and expectations; and collecting in-depth qualitative data.
We will use innovative dissemination methods to communicate the project’s findings, including producing a short documentary film about the process of establishing education programs in the camps, the role of education in helping Rohingya refugees to cope with and overcome the effects of forced displacement, and the views of refugees on how education programs are addressing their needs, preferences, and expectations.
In addition to Gudrun Østby, the project team includes PRIO researchers Kendra Dupuy and Marte Nilsen, as well as Sabrina Karim form Cornell University and Mohammad Ashraful Haque from Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Bangladesh.
EducAid is funded by the Research Council of Norway’s NORGLOBAL2 programme, and is placed under the umbrella of the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies (NCHS).
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Since the August 2017 crisis forced them to flee their native Myanmar, Rohingya refugees have attempted to rebuild a semblance of normalcy in the squalid camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
The Government of Bangladesh restricts formal schooling for refugee children and youth. International and national NGOs provide some nonformal education in the camps, but the general lack of education has become a major source of concern and despair for refugees.
In response, numerous refugee-led networks of community teachers have been formed trying to fill the gap in formal education.
To learn more about these efforts and how these networks could be engaged by humanitarian agencies working to improve the education situation for refugees in the camps, read this new report commissioned for PRIO’s EducAid project.
Journal Article in International Review of Education
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
Report - Other
PRIO Policy Brief
Popular Article in Bistandsaktuelt
Popular Article in Klassekampen
Popular Article in Southeast Asia Globe
Journal Article in International Journal of Educational Development
Journal Article in Frontiers in Education
Book Chapter in Masks of Authoritarianism: Hegemony, Power and Public Life in Bangladesh
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Paper
PRIO Policy Brief
Journal Article in Review of Educational Research
Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.
Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.
Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.
Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.
Rohingya refugees make films about their struggle for education.