Over 700,000 targeted children - from 1.6 million school-age refugee children (5-17) - enrolled in formal education
HIGHLIGHTS:
In Lebanon, a second round of the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) was launched in June targeting out-of-school-children who have missed two years of education or more. The target of students enrolling in ALP for 2016 is 30,000. A total of 9,271 children participated in the placement test across Lebanon.
UN agencies started planning for the Back to School Campaign to get as many as possible Lebanese and non-Lebanese school-age children into the public education system. The Education Sector organized Back-to-School zonal workshops with partners in the field to discuss the strategy and conduct a mapping of partner’s capacity to do outreach.
A consortium of NGOs is providing over 150 new scholarships for Syrian refugees to study in public universities for one academic year in Lebanon.
In Jordan, 145,458 Syrian students continued to access formal education in schools for the 2015/2016 academic year. Three new schools are being established in Azraq and four in Zaatari. Since the beginning of 2016, almost 34,267 children were newly enrolled in IFE (informal education) programmes.
In Zaatari camp, children are now involved in summer activities, while children with disabilities continue to receive individual academic support. Nine Makani centres in host community will undergo structural modifications to receive and integrate children with disabilities in their programmes.
In Egypt, the Education Grant early registration interviews continued for students enrolling for the 2016/2017 academic year. During June, 867 applicants were registered, bringing the total to 1,914 for the year.