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UNHCR - Education for all refugee children is within reach – finds World Bank-UNHCR report


Burundian refugee students attend class at Paysannat L school, in Mahama refugee camp, Rwanda, February 2018.  © UNHCR/Georgina Goodwin
GENEVA/WASHINGTON
  – The average annual cost of educating refugees is less than 5 percent of public education expenditure in developing nations hosting 85 percent of the world’s refugees, according to a joint World Bank – UNHCR report released today.
The principle of inclusive education, in this case, opening education up to all refugee children and their inclusion into national education systems can also lead to better services for local communities in host countries.  This can be achieved at an estimated annual cost of US$4.85 billion globally. This is a pre-COVID estimated cost of educating all refugees and is likely to increase as the impacts of the pandemic continue to unfold. ....

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Education Finance Watch 2021 - World


Education Finance Watch 2021
COVID-19: Two-thirds of poorer countries are cutting their education budgets at a time when they can least afford to
Education budgets are not adjusting proportionately to the challenges brought about by COVID-19, especially in poorer countries. Despite additional funding needs, two-thirds of low- and lower-middle-income countries have, in fact, cut their public education budgets since the onset of the pandemic, according to the new joint World Bank – UNESCO report,
In comparison,
EFW demonstrates only one-third of upper-middle and high-income countries have reduced their budgets. These cuts have been relatively small so far, but there is a danger that they will grow as the pandemic continues to take its economic toll, and fiscal positions worsen. These differing trends imply a significant widening of already large spending disparities seen between low- and high-income countries. ....

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