Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

This presentation will focus on the design of the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA). This initiative aims to generate rigorous evidence on innovative education programs in humanitarian crises, with a specific focus on how to transform high-potential pilot education projects into scalable educational initiatives for refugees and displaced communities worldwide. The program was set up by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), UNICEF, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). To support HEA’s goal, AIR will combine rigorous randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies with process evaluations so as to contribute to the successful scale-up of effective education programs in refugee settings. During this session we will introduce the evaluations and present some early findings of process evaluations of innovations in education that focus on refugee populations in Jordan, Kenya, Rwanda, and Sudan.