Research Brief
Adapting to the New Normal
Sep 19, 2016
The Emergency Education Response Programme aims to provide public and supportive education to Syrian refugee children in Jordan. RAND's evaluation identified significant successes as well as longer-term challenges, related to access, quality and coordination of services. Key recommendations concerned developing medium-term thinking, expanding public education, improving double-shifted schools and targeting gendered challenges, among others.
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The Emergency Education Response Programme (EER), launched by UNICEF, the Government of Jordan and partners in 2012, aims to provide free public formal education, as well as safe and appropriate supportive educational services, for Syrian refugee children living in Jordan. RAND's evaluation identified significant successes as well as longer-term challenges, related to education access and quality and programme planning and coordination. The Programme's first responses to the Syrian refugee crisis were designed to meet immediate education needs, enabling many children to enrol in school. However, as the crisis has continued, medium-term, strategic efforts and planning have lagged behind events on the ground. Although the EER has successfully provided access to public education for 130,000 Syrian children, at least 97,000 remain out of formal school. Increasing Syrian access to formal education, as well as ensuring high-quality schooling for both Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities, will require more attention. The Programme has also provided NGO-managed alternative education to 35,000 Syrian children. While they were reported to provide quality, child-centered, flexible education, they have lacked a full-time, structured curriculum and a coherent quality monitoring, and clear pathways for entry into formal education. Effective planning and coordination has been strengthened by improved data on implementing partners' activities. However, little evidence was found that planning decisions were being made on the basis of evaluating and comparing options. Key recommendations based on evaluation findings concern developing medium-term thinking, expanding public education, improving double-shifted schools and targeting gendered challenges, among others.
Chapter One
Introduction, background and approach
Chapter Two
Findings: relevance
Chapter Three
Findings: effectiveness
Chapter Four
Findings: efficiency
Chapter Five
Findings: cross-cutting issues
Chapter Six
Findings: sustainability
Chapter Seven
Recommendations
Annex One
Evaluation questions and summary findings
Annex Two
Further detail on methodology
Annex Three
Summaries of challenges, effective practices and remaining needs in key areas of the evaluation
Annex Four
Comparison (where possible) of budgeting requirements between 3RP and RRP6
The research described in this report was prepared for UNICEF and conducted by RAND Europe.
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