Children account for nearly half of the world’s refugee population. Education will be on spotlight throughout the Global Refugee Forum as one of the six major focus areas, alongside burden and responsibility-sharing, jobs and livelihoods, energy and infrastructure, solutions, and protection capacity.

GPE, through our Chief Executive Officer Alice Albright, will participate in multiple events and share experience working at the nexus between refugees and education.

The list of education-related events below (Spotlight sessions, Speakers’ corner, High-level dialogue) is not exhaustive, so please check the Forum’s website for more details.

Monday, December 16

10:00 – 11:30 | Early Childhood Development: Meeting the needs of Young Children & Caregivers Affected by Crisis & Development
Spotlight session
Organized by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the LEGO Foundation, Moving Minds Alliance, Save the Children, Sesame Workshop and UNICEF.

10:00 – 10:45 | Broadening the base for education – Teachers shoulder the biggest burden
Spotlight session
Organized by Education International, INEE Teachers in Crisis Contexts Collaborative (TiCC) and Teachers College Columbia.

10:45 – 11:30 | Broadening the base for education – Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Spotlight session
Organized by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Finn-Church Aid and the ILO.

11:30 – 13:00 | Reframing Education in Emergencies
Spotlight session
Organized by EiE Co-sponsorship Task Team and Turkey.

13:10 – 13:20 | Refugee Student Network and education priorities
Speakers’ corner
Organized by the Refugee Student Network

15:00 – 16:30 | Securing her Future: Proven approaches to ensuring a quality secondary education for refugee girls
Spotlight session
Organized by the Malala Fund, Plan International and UN Women.

16:30 – 18:00 | Financing the Education Commitment in the Global Compact on Refugees
Spotlight session
Organized by the Al Ghurair Foundation, Education Cannot Wait, Global Partnership for Education, Save the Children and the World Bank.

Tuesday, December 17

12:40 – 12:50 | Refugee children in host community schools – Providing tutoring support for retention and learning
Speakers’ corner
Organized by the International Rescue Committee

13:00 – 14:30 | Inclusion of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced in national education systems
Spotlight session
Organized by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC) and the task Team on Inclusion Co-sponsorship Alliance.

Wednesday, December 18

11:00 – 13:00 | High-level dialogue on education

13:10 – 13:20 | Promoting integration of Syrian children into the Turkish education system
Speakers’ corner
Organized by the Ministry of Education, Turkey

14:10 – 14:20 | Project Stand Up: Refugee led initiative in Malaysia
Speakers’ corner
Organized by Project Stand up

14:20 – 14:30 | Tackling child marriage and associated negative coping mechanisms among refugee populations
Speakers’ corner
Organized by the Malala Fund

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