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Refugee Education; Five Years on from the Launch of the 2030 Refugee Education Strategy Year of publication: 2024 Author: Cirenia Chavez Villegas | Kate Bond Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The 2024 UNHCR Refugee Education Report draws on data from more than 65 countries worldwide to provide the most detailed picture yet of the state of refugee education and enrolment. The report reflects on the 2030 Refugee Education Strategy (launched in 2019) and where notable progress has been made as well as areas where greater investment and enhanced collaboration are needed to meet the strategic objectives of the Strategy. 
On This Journey No One Cares If You Live or Die, Volume 2: Abuse, Protection and Justice Along Routes Between East and West Africa and Africa's Mediterranean Coast Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: International Organization for Migration (IOM) | Mixed Migration Centre | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) In the complex landscape of migration, this second volume of the report, On This Journey, No One Cares if You Live or Die, emerges as a crucial body of work that sheds light on the stark realities faced by refugees and migrants traversing the perilous Central Mediterranean route all the way from East and Horn of Africa and West Africa to the North African coast of the Mediterranean and across the sea. Jointly published by IOM, MMC and UNHCR, this report delves into the protection risks faced by refugees and migrants during these journeys. It aims to inform increased and concrete routes-based protection responses to reduce the suffering associated with the desperate journeys refugees and migrants undertake, and to serve as a call to action in addressing the root causes of displacement and drivers of irregular migration through positive action on peace, climate change, governance, inequality and social cohesion, as well as the creation of safe migration pathways. 
Global Framework for Refugee Education Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Global Refugee Forum Education Co-Sponsorship Alliance | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) This Global Framework for Refugee Education has been produced by the Global Refugee Forum’s Education Co-Sponsorship Alliance, comprising more than 60 partners. It aims to help partners to translate the Global Compact on Refugees and the Refugee Education 2030: A Strategy for Refugee Inclusion into pledges for concrete action to help achieve inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. 
Inter-agency peace education programme: skills for constructive living; overview of the programme Year of publication: 2005 Author: Antonella Verdiani Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This manual is one of the components of the “Inter-Agency Peace Education Programme”. The programme is designed for education managers of ministries dealing with both formal and non-formal education and for agencies which implement education activities on behalf of the government. The implementation structure is based on the experience acquired over the eight years the programme has been in use, from 1998 to 2005. The programme has been evaluated by external experts and the new revised materials (2005) incorporate both the suggestions made in the evaluation and the feedback from the specialists who implemented it in the field. 
Asia-Pacific Migration Report 2024: Assessing Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UN. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN. ESCAP) | International Labour Organization (ILO) | International Organization for Migration (IOM) | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN. OHCHR) | United Nations Centre for Human Settlement Programme (UN Habitat) | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) | UNESCO | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) | UN. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) | World Bank This report aims to assess the state of GCM implementation in the region, its progress and its challenges since the first Asia-Pacific Regional Review of Implementation of the Global Compact for Migration in 2021, in which a Chair’s summary was adopted. Chapters 2 to 5 each consider clusters of GCM objectives, as presented in General Assembly resolution 73/326 and following the same groupings as in the Asia-Pacific Migration Report (APMR) 2020. These chapters open with a summary of the discussions from the first regional review of the GCM, held in 2021, drawing from the Chair’s summary. Chapter 6 provides overarching recommendations to support and accelerate GCM implementation in Asia and the Pacific. At the end of the report are annexes with information on the GCM objectives and guiding principles, references to migration in Voluntary National Reviews to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, and GCM pledges at the level of the State or City, Municipality and Local Authority. 
Language for Resilience: The Role of Language in Enhancing the Resilience of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities Year of publication: 2018 Author: Tony Capstick | Marie Delaney Corporate author: British Council | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The Language for Resilience report examines the impact of language on refugees and host communities affected by the Syrian crisis, identifying the different ways that language skills enhance resilience and providing suggestions for programme responses that address key needs.The report shows that for children and young people attending schools or post-school education, and for educators in host communities handling influxes of refugee students, quality language learning improves attainment and attendance and builds safer and more inclusive classrooms. It also illustrates how creative approaches to language education can support the development of life skills and help meet psycho-social needs. 
Sexual and Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response In Refugee Situations in the Middle East and North Africa Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is facing humanitarian crises and forced displacement on an unprecedented scale. These conflicts and the resulting displacement disproportionately burden women and children, who now comprise 78 per cent of Syrian refugees. Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is becoming increasingly widespread in these conflict-affected countries, and is often one of the causes of flight. In support for multi-sectorial and coordinated SGBV prevention and response, this report outlines strategies, in line with international standards, that UNHCR uses in coordination with national authorities, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and other partners across the region, to bring tangible results in preventing and responding to SGBV in refugee situations, as well as in the inter-agency response in situations of internal displacement. 
Understand Community Protection: Guidance for Protection Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) This material guides community protection from recognition of the community approach and definition of protection. It leaves the basis of 12 fundamental lessons for this process. 
DAFI ANNUAL REPORT 2018- Refugee Student Voices: Refugee Student In Higher Education Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The DAFI refugee scholarship programme was launched in 1992 by UNHCR and the German government. The programme has supported over 15,500 young refugees to date and is currently implemented in 51 countries, the vast majority of which are in the Global South.The DAFI programme aims to secure refugee students’ inclusion in national education systems, prioritising enrolment in public higher education institutions. Participation in public institutions enables refugee students to study alongside their host country peers and pursue nationally accredited degree programmes, as well as bringing resources into public higher education institutions. 
Refugee Education 2030: A Strategy for Refugee Inclusion Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) The UNHCR's 2019 Education strategy, which builds on the Global Compact on Refugees.