dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.contributor.author	UNHCR
dc.date.accessioned	2021-03-10T17:33:03Z
dc.date.available	2021-03-10T17:33:03Z
dc.date.issued	2021-01
dc.description.abstract	This report estimates the cost of educating refugee children in the countries in which they currently reside. The cohort-average annual cost of providing education to all refugee students in low, lower-middle and upper-middle income host countries is 4.85 billion US Dollars. A sensitivityanalysis, relaxing model assumptions, suggests the estimate lies in the range of 4.44 billion and 5.11 billion US Dollars. The total financing envelope required to provide K-12 years of education over a 13-year period to 2032 is 63 billion. As data on the impact of COVID-19’s (coronavirus)impact on education costs and public expenditure is still evolving, this paper provides a pre-COVID-19 baseline for the estimated costs of educating all refugee children. The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) has placed enhanced responsibility-sharing at the center of the international refugee protection agenda. It commits stakeholders to specific measures to achieve that goal, including a proposal to measure their contributions. Thisrequires a standardized and transparent methodology, developed through a participatory process, that can be used across all host countries; and provides the motivation for this work. The report is cognizant of the fact that education in emergencies is not only a humanitarian crisis but also a development crisis with large numbers of refugee children spending their whole education life cycle in displaced settings. These environments are often already stretched to deliver quality education services. Eighty-five percent of the world’s displaced persons are hosted in low and lower middle-income countries. Where refugees are concentrated in border or rural regions, inclusive education systems can direct resources to previously underserved areas in host countries. Inclusive national education systems promote a streamlined response to the large influx of refugees by building resilient systems with benefits for refugees and host communities alike. It creates a framework for the international community to harmonize efforts and share the collective burden and responsibility of refugee education. The costing methodology developed in this report is based on the key premise that refugee education is embedded in the host country education system, facing the same cost drivers and efficiency and quality constraints. This implies that refugee students receive an education that is "no better, no worse" than host country students in terms of teacher quality, school infrastructure, access to learning materials and other inputs. It starts with the public unit cost of education in each country for each level of education. Refugee education coefficients are then added to the unit costs to provide education services essential to the integration ofrefugees into national systems. These services include accelerated learning programmes, psychosocial support, support in the language of instruction, teacher training in refugee inclusiveness and so on. In addition, given the historical levels of low investment in earlychildhood education (ECE), this paper adds an ECE coefficient to primary public unit costs to estimate pre-primary costs for each country. While this paper uses uniform coefficients acrossall countries, these are likely to vary based on the local context.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/159281614191477048/The-Global-Cost-of-Inclusive-Refugee-Education
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/35238
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/35238
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	EDUCATION
dc.subject	DISPLACED PERSONS
dc.subject	REFUGEE CHILD
dc.subject	INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
dc.subject	REFUGEE EDUCATION
dc.subject	INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
dc.title	The Global Cost of Inclusive Refugee Education	en
dc.type	Report	en
dc.type	Rapport	fr
dc.type	Informe	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	The Global Cost of Inclusive Refugee Education
okr.date.disclosure	2021-02-24
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-07T12:29:40.555374Z
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Other Education Study
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/159281614191477048/The-Global-Cost-of-Inclusive-Refugee-Education
okr.guid	159281614191477048
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b0883194a8_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	32859604
okr.identifier.report	156968
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/159281614191477048/pdf/The-Global-Cost-of-Inclusive-Refugee-Education.pdf	en
okr.topic	Education::Education Finance
okr.topic	Education::Education Reform and Management
okr.topic	Education::Educational Institutions & Facilities
okr.topic	Education::Effective Schools and Teachers
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Migration and Development
okr.unit	ECR - HDN Practice Group (ECRHD)

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