Good practices that bring the Global Compact to life

Action for Refugee Children Cover image Ten-year-old Maja (left) and Donya at the summer school where they met in Bihac´, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although Donya comes from and at first did not speak Bosnian, their shared love of dancing and mathematics helped them become fast friends. UNICEF and the European Union, in association with Save the Children and the Ministry of Education, Science, and Sports of the Una-Sana Canton Government, organized the summer school to support children from refugee, migrant and asylum- seeking families as they adapt to the national education system. Contents

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1 Overview 2 Seeking refuge and a childhood 3 Through the avenue of inclusion 4 We are not starting from scratch 5 A renewed commitment to refugee children 6 UNICEF’s six-point agenda for action 7 Good practices that bring the Global Refugee Compact to life Every has the right to learn 8 Quality inclusive education in Turkey 9 An Education Response Plan for Uganda Quality non-formal education for uprooted children in Greece 10 Equitable access to education in 11 Education for children on the move in Bosnia and Herzegovina 12 The first 1,000 days can shape a child’s future Delivering early childhood development in Uganda and Kenya 13 Limitless education without borders Cash transfers to expand early childhood access in Jordan 14 Protecting refugee children from violence, exploitation and abuse 15 Child protection mechanisms in Rwanda 16 Centres for social welfare in Bosnia and Herzegovina 17 Birth registration for in Ethiopia A guardianship system in Community-based services delivery in Turkey 18 Independent living for unaccompanied teens in Greece Including refugee children in child protection systems in Mauritania 19 Water under fire 20 A water utility in Ethiopia A water network in Jordan 21 A water treatment plant in Ecuador Water, sanitation and hygiene capacity in Guyana 22 Towards a bolder vision Conditional cash transfers for refugee child education in Turkey 23 Integrating refugee response into district planning in Uganda 24 Self-reliance through basic social services in Ethiopia 25 No lost generation Assessing multidimensional in Uganda 26 Integrating refugee data into the Uganda equity atlas Information Feedback Centres in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps 27 In action with our partners for every child uprooted Overview

"Some people call us the lost generation. We are not lost. We have not lost our love for learning. We have not lost our dreams for our future. We have not lost our hope." Muzoon Almellehan, UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador, Syrian Refugee and Education Advocate

Every is a refugee children should not children’s crisis. More than half only be defined by their of the 25.9 million refugees vulnerabilities. They are worldwide are under the age of strong and resilient. They 18. Refugee boys and girls are are determined to thrive, and uniquely vulnerable: because their potential is limitless. they are children, because they They are not alone. In the are uprooted, because they Global Compact on Refugees, have experienced or witnessed governments and stakeholders violence. These vulnerabilities around the world have put them at risk of more committed to make sure no violence, abuse, exploitation refugee girl or boy is left and . However, behind.

1 OVERVIEW Seeking refuge and a childhood Regardless of their legal Indeed, access to safety, grow and bond become a status, children are children food, clean water, school, daily struggle. In a recent first, and their suffering and sanitation, or a secure and poll conducted by UNICEF the discrimination against healthy environment to among more than 4,000 them is unacceptable and uprooted young people preventable. Every child aged 14 to 24, 49 per cent deserves protection, care, reported that they had not and all the support and For far too been able to see a doctor services she needs to many, seeking when needed; 58 per cent survive and thrive. But too had lost a year or more of often that is not the case. refuge becomes school; and more than one Instead, for far too many, an experience of in three claimed that they seeking refuge becomes an loneliness, risk had received no help from experience of loneliness, and deprivation. anyone – family, friends or risks and deprivations, with institutions. major impacts in both the short and long term.

OVERVIEW 2 Through the avenue of inclusion Displacement should not of children, both refugees host communities, are prevent any child from and from host communities supported through inclusive exercising their rights or – whoever and wherever and strengthened national achieving their full potential. they are. services; that their best With the right policies interests will be given and practices, and with The Global Compact on proper consideration; host countries receiving Refugees provides the that national protection appropriate support right framework to make systems and cross-border from the international this happen. States and cooperation schemes will community, we can relevant stakeholders be strengthened; and that address the drivers forcing have committed to work this will be done with the children to flee their homes together to ensure that active participation and and protect their rights all children, including engagement of refugee and throughout the journey. We refugees and those in the host community children can respond to the needs and youth.

The Global Compact on Refugees provides the right framing to make this happen. Through its provisions, states and relevant stakeholders have committed, among other things, to work together to ensure that all children, including refugees and those in the host communities, are supported through inclusive and strengthened national services.

3 OVERVIEW We are not starting from scratch It was a refugee crisis and don’t miss out on more than 70 years ago education. We help provide that brought UNICEF birth certificates that allow into existence. Our first children to access services. executive director, Maurice We also look out for the Pate, put a sole condition most vulnerable refugee upon his appointment: children: those who are that UNICEF would serve alone and separated from all children of the world their families, those who without distinction. This live with a disability, those principle has guided who have special needs. No UNICEF’s work across child is left behind. We are more than 190 countries there at every step of the and territories and would, journey. decades later, become a key element in the This booklet will take you Convention on the Rights on a journey along some of of the Child. Today more UNICEF’s most successful than ever, UNICEF still programmes to support works for every child. refugee girls and boys all Together with our partners, over the world: building we ensure that refugee local capacity to provide children are protected from clean water to refugee and harm and that they receive host community children in the support they need. the border area between We are there from the Guyana and Venezuela; start, providing lifesaving ensuring refugee children humanitarian assistance obtain birth registration in when a crisis hits. We Ethiopia; providing early provide clean water, childhood education to sanitation and access to local and refugee children health care. We run child- in Jordan; ensuring refugee friendly safe spaces where girls and boys can attend displaced children can play, school in Turkey. where mothers can rest and feed their babies in private and where separated families can reunite. We ensure that refugee boys and girls can go to school

OVERVIEW 4 A renewed commitment to refugee children UNICEF is a fierce voices heard. We can supporter of the Global make sure refugee girls Compact on Refugees and and boys continue to learn, is working to help reach its access health care and objectives. In the Compact, other services, and obtain states have committed to legal identity. We can keep contribute their resources refugee families together and expertise towards and end the discrimination policies and programmes they often face. that take into account the specific needs of refugee UNICEF calls upon girls and boys and promote governments, the their inclusion in host private sector and all communities. The Global stakeholders to keep an Refugee Forum offers eye on refugee children. a unique opportunity to Together, we can make make this happen. We sure that refugee boys can empower refugee and girls receive the children with cutting-edge support they need and solutions and make their that not one single child is left behind.

5 OVERVIEW UNICEF’s six-point agenda for action At the heart of UNICEF’s for #ChildrenUprooted. Compact on Refugees. This work in support of These points should guide is what stakeholders can do refugee children and governments and other to stand up for the rights of young people is the six- stakeholders in their plans refugee children: point agenda for action to implement the Global

Press for action Help refugee on the causes that children stay in uproot children school and stay from their homes. healthy.

End the detention of Keep families children by creating together. practical alternatives.

Combat Protect refugee xenophobia and children from discrimination. exploitation, abuse and violence. OVERVIEW

OVERVIEW 6 Good practices that bring the Global Refugee Compact to life

Every child has the right to learn Right now, 3.7 million of origin. The reality for all children and adolescents school-age refugees are hosting communities is with the knowledge and not in school. Only 63 also often dire, particularly skills they need to thrive. per cent are enrolled in in the poorest countries, This includes making primary school, and these and especially in those targeted efforts on behalf of statistics become worse as affected by conflict. Around children who are excluded the children get older, with the world, UNICEF works on the basis of gender, long-lasting repercussions in support of national disability, poverty, ethnicity for their lives, as well education systems to or language, as well as as for the future of both provide inclusive learning those displaced or affected hosting countries and those opportunities that prepare by emergencies.

7 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Quality inclusive of refugee children. To education in Turkey facilitate their access Turkey hosts the largest to formal education, number of refugees and UNICEF collaborated with asylum-seekers in the the Ministry of National world, with the majority of Education in strengthening registered refugees being the capacity of education Syrians who have fled the personnel, improving and civil war in their country expanding learning spaces, since 2011. Refugee and supporting students children and young people with access to essential in Turkey face numerous supplies. Over a period of challenges, especially three years, the percentage in education. In 2016, of refugee children only about 36 per cent of attending formal education the school-age refugee nearly doubled from 36 per population was enrolled in cent of children enrolled school, posing a significant in 2016 to 62 per cent challenge for the education enrolled by the end of the sector to accommodate 2018–2019 school year. an unprecedented number

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 8 An Education Quality non-formal Response Plan education for for Uganda uprooted children Over 1 million refugees in Greece have fled to Uganda in the Refugees and other past 2½ years, making it children on the move face the third-largest refugee- a number of education- hosting country in the world related challenges in after Turkey and Pakistan. Greece: they come from The Education Response more than 20 different Plan for Refugees and countries, with different Host Communities aims to language and cultural reach 567,500 refugees and backgrounds; many of them host community learners have missed more than (targeting those aged three years of education 3–24) per year, with $389 while displaced or due million over 3½ years. Since to conflicts and violence; 2018, gross enrolment some have never been has increased, at least 530 to school; and some are new classrooms have been illiterate in their language of constructed, 936 teachers origin. In Greece, UNICEF’s have been hired, and there Non-Formal Education is now one textbook for (NFE) programme in camps every 10 refugee children and urban settings has – a vast improvement from benefited 14,676 children one book per 51 children and adolescents and 4,155 previously. adults since late 2016. NFE teachers have not only increased efficiency in language learning, school readiness and cognitive development, but they have also enhanced motivation, social-emotional learning, respect for diversity and teamwork.

9 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Equitable access to by the crisis in Syria. Since education in Syria 2018, more than 139,000 Syria and its neighbouring out-of-school children have countries are facing one made progress in catching of the largest and most up on the education they complex humanitarian have missed by enrolling in crises in the world, both two alternative curriculums. in terms of people in need UNICEF and its partners and in terms of internal and have also procured 836,624 external displacements. textbooks, distributed In partnership with the self-learning materials to Education Above All 113,200 children in Raqqa, Foundation and its Educate supported the activation A Child initiative, UNICEF is of 485 learning spaces, promoting equitable access procured 52,000 school to quality learning, as well bags and recruited 7,097 as self-reliance for children teachers. and young people affected

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 10 Education for children’s inclusion into children on the primary schools. Activities move in Bosnia and include development of Herzegovina school plans, capacity Faced with an increasing development of teachers, number of refugee monitoring of progress in and migrant boys and education, assessment girls staying in Bosnia of the current educational and Herzegovina, state status and identification institutions, United of the areas for additional Nations agencies and non- support children might need governmental organizations while in school. UNICEF is have recognized the need also supporting the state- to ensure that greater level Ministry of Civil Affairs efforts are made to allow in adapting the manual for all children to exercise their the inclusion of refugee right to an education. In and migrant children in the December 2018, UNICEF public education system reached an agreement in Serbia to the context of with several education Bosnia and Herzegovina. ministries for displaced

11 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE The first 1,000 days can shape a child’s future Experiences in the first inclusive economic growth, elements, and 9 per cent of few years of life have a expand opportunity and the early learning elements long-lasting impact on a end intergenerational needed for nurturing care. child, shaping cognitive, cycles of poverty. An April Governments need to language, motor, social and 2018 review of 26 active take action to ensure that emotional development refugee and humanitarian access to ECD services is – in short, what we need response plans revealed fully granted for all children to think, solve problems, that, compared with affected by crisis and communicate, express our the ECD interventions displacement, including emotions, build resilience recommended by the both refugee and host and form relationships. United Nations Nurturing populations. Through tools These few short years Care Framework, the plans such as the ECD kit for ultimately affect health, included on average only emergencies, UNICEF learning and even earnings 58 per cent of the nutrition is already working with potential. Investing in early elements, 24 per cent of partners from the business childhood development the safety and security community, governments (ECD) is a cost-effective elements, 22 per cent of and NGOs around this way to boost shared the health elements, 10 per urgent need. prosperity, promote cent of the responsive-care

Delivering and scaled a parenting early childhood education programme that development in reached 8,161 parents, Uganda and Kenya who were also trained An example of collaborating on how to make toy kits to create real change can using sustainable, local be found in Uganda and materials. In Kenya, UNICEF Kenya, where Latter-day constructed six semi- Saint Charities is supporting permanent ECD structures, UNICEF’s programmes renovated 29 ECD centres, for refugees and host and built the capacity of 791 communities as part of ECD teachers and 1,599 a multiyear programme parents. These activities called Learning for Life. benefited both host and To date, the initiative has refugee communities, reached 36,741 children. promoting their self-reliance In Uganda, UNICEF added as well as inclusion and 213 new classrooms in 45 integration. ECD centres and piloted

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 12 Limitless education Education and UNESCO’s without borders International Institute for Worldwide, at least 175 Educationa Planning, based million children are not on a common vision to enrolled in pre-primary support national policy- education. The Sustainable makers and partners Development Goal for who need to make key education sets a clear decisions that will move the objective to address this needle. The result is a new gap through Target 4.2: ‘All (and free) online course: girls and boys have access ‘Mainstreaming Early to quality early childhood Childhood Education into development, care and Education Sector Planning’. pre-primary education so This massive open online they are ready for primary course is the first to cover school.’ While we are still integrated holistic planning millions of children away specifically for pre-primary from making this happen, education, building capacity UNICEF is working with at the right technical level to the Global Partnership for make a difference.

Cash transfers of Education piloted the to expand early Hajati-KG2 programme childhood access in 2019. The programme in Jordan aims at improving access In Jordan, 47 per cent to KG2 by means of non- of Syrian refugees are conditional cash transfers children. According to and has thus far supported official statistics from the 512 families, also providing Ministry of Education, 62.2 transportation vouchers and per cent of children in the social assistance for the country attend licensed KG2 most vulnerable. According (kindergarten through grade to UNICEF’s preliminary 2) classes, with a significant analysis, 74 per cent of gap between Jordanian and the beneficiary families Syrian children (67.8 and (367 children) enrolled and 11.2 per cent in school, attended KG2. Of these, respectively). To meet almost all households (98.5 the educational needs of per cent) were refugees, Syrian refugee children, mostly Syrians. UNICEF and the Ministry

13 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Protecting refugee children from violence, exploitation and abuse The dangers and strengthen protection and and policy to prevent desperation that drive support for children with and respond to violence children to leave their an extensive network it against children. UNICEF homes and communities has developed through links development and expose them to many its work in 193 countries. humanitarian responses to risks along their journeys, This approach begins with implement child protection including violence, strengthening national services, including building exploitation and human child protection systems the capacity of the trafficking. The risks are to protect the rights and social service workforce, compounded by inadequate needs of all children within strengthening case and discriminatory practices their borders. The child management to meet such as immigration protection system then the needs of children, detention, , works across various promoting birth registration, and lack of access to sectors – including justice, delivering basic services, including health, education and and psychosocial support education and healthcare, social services – at the services, and dismantling throughout their journeys. community, local and gender-related barriers UNICEF adopts a route- national levels, guided for and based approach to by relevant legislation children.

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 14 Child protection of the social workforce mechanisms in and paraprofessionals to Rwanda provide adequate support Despite efforts made by to refugee children and the Rwandan Government, young people. Capacity such as the inclusion of building reached all social refugees in its basic service workers and psychologists systems, the Mahama at the district level, who faced a lack then provided hands-on of coordination between supervisory support to child protection actors community-based child inside and outside the protection volunteers in camp, as well as a general relevant districts, further lack of capacity in the social enhancing the local workforce. UNICEF stepped capacity. This practice in to coordinate in-camp is sustainable, as it is and out-of-camp child embedded in the existing protection actors, as well as national child protection to strengthen the capacity system.

15 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Centres for social and monitoring child welfare in Bosnia protection standards, and Herzegovina providing psychological first In 2018, UNICEF supported aid, and supporting best the Ministry of Labour interests determination. and Social Policy of the Of particular note is the Federation of Bosnia support for deployment and Herzegovina with of additional professionals the development of the to the Centres for Social Guidelines for Centres for Welfare, which were Social Welfare on child overburdened with the protection referral pathways increased caseload. These for refugee and migrant capacity-building efforts children, as well as standard and support for enhancing operating procedures for the regulatory framework Centres for Social Welfare contributed to some 5,000 on the care of vulnerable children in the period from refugee and migrant June 2018 to August 2019 children. In 2018 and 2019, benefitting from quality UNICEF, in partnership support and improved with the Federal Ministry protection standards. of Labour and Social Policy These benefits include and Save the Children, built faster appointment of legal the capacity of national guardianships, referral to actors involved in the child reception facilities/shelter, protection response to case management, and improve their knowledge mental health and psycho- and skills in implementing social support.

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 16 Birth registration for A guardianship Community-based refugees in Ethiopia system in Italy services delivery Ethiopia has one of the Italian Law 47/2017 in Turkey lowest rates of civil included a model of UNICEF established registration, including birth voluntary guardianship a comprehensive registration, in the world. services integrated into the partnership framework Only 3 per cent of children existing system of reception with municipalities, under 5 are registered by and protection for migrant NGOs and other partners civil authorities at birth. and refugee children. Under to enhance delivery of In 2012, legislation was the law, volunteer guardians community-based services passed in Ethiopia to are citizens who are for vulnerable children in address the low levels appointed in coordination Turkey through a network of civil registration in the with the Juvenile Courts, of safe spaces, community country. This proclamation, trained by the Regional centres, outreach services however, did not include Ombudspersons and and mobile teams in 32 stipulations for refugees. In monitored by the National provinces. From January to 2017 and 2019, revisions Ombudsperson. To support June 2019, almost 70,000 were made to extend the operationalization children benefited from the scope of eligibility of of the law, UNICEF structured psycho-social registration services to invested in establishing support programmes. include refugees and other a Guardian Support and Through other child non-nationals living in Monitoring Office within protection services, 64,317 Ethiopia. Through advocacy the Ombudsperson’s refugee children were efforts, as well as the facility in Palermo, Sicily. In identified and assessed construction of ‘one-stop 2018, UNICEF opened two – including 1,966 children shops’ expected to speed additional offices in Palermo with disabilities – of whom up the issuance of legal and expanded the initiative 46,835 were referred to identity documents for into other regions (Calabria, specialized care services refugees, UNICEF and Latium and Sardinia). During and 17,750 received UNHCR have aimed to the first half of 2019, around specialized support and uphold the fundamental 228 guardians supported a assistance. And through rights of refugees and total of 286 unaccompanied a collaboration between Ethiopian citizens to own minors. This model is UNICEF and the Ministry valid identity documents, now being integrated into of Youth and Sport, 1,543 register their civil events the national system for children and adolescents in and access a range of supporting guardians. 35 youth centres were also complementary services. screened by specialized personnel and received counselling services from a pool of UNICEF-supported psychologists.

17 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Independent living for unaccompanied teens in Greece The national child protection system in Greece has been struggling to cope with the growing number of unaccompanied and separated minors arriving in the country. Medium- sized residential shelters – hosting on average 25 to 30 children each – have been the primary model of care. However, demand continues to outpace supply, even though shelter accommodation capacity nearly tripled in the past four years. With UNICEF’s support, the first-ever supported independent living accommodation pilot and host communities scheme for minors aged Including refugee and to enhance their self- 16-plus was implemented children in child reliance. By August 2019, in January 2018 by Greek protection systems 433 people, including NGO METAdrasi to respond in Mauritania 189 women, had been to the need to support Mauritania hosts nearly trained to identify and unaccompanied adolescents 55,000 people who have manage the cases of close to reaching adulthood. fled Mali; nearly 60 per 1,448 vulnerable children So far, 33 teens have cent are children and identified at Mbera camp. been accommodated in young people. At the This list includes community supported independent Mbera camp, humanitarian facilitators, health and care living. These minors are actors working in the workers, members of the better responding to small- Child Protection Working community network for scale, community-based Group, chaired by UNHCR child protection, teachers, and holistic care provided in and UNICEF, established women’s associations and such living arrangements, a programme to promote humanitarian staff. greatly reducing the number the inclusion of refugee of runaways. children in national systems

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 18 Water under fire When one thinks of conflict, not function, and there is water and sanitation might increased risk of disease not be the first things and malnutrition. In refugee that come to mind. But in and displacement contexts, fragile and conflict-affected children and young people areas, access to safe water are particularly vulnerable. is often compromised: UNICEF works to provide People are displaced into access to safe water and areas with limited or no sanitation services, as services, infrastructure well as to encourage safe gets damaged or goes into hygiene practices, while decline, pipelines fall into advocating to ensure the disrepair, and simple tasks inclusion of refugees into such as water collection and national systems as the personal hygiene become only sustainable and most dangerous. Without access cost-efficient solution. to safe water and sanitation services, children fall ill, schools and hospitals do

19 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE A water utility region’s resources and in Ethiopia infrastructures are being More than 99 per cent increasingly stressed by of refugees in Ethiopia this refugee influx. In originate from South Sudan, 2014, UNICEF launched an Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan. ambitious project to provide Most of the refugees a sustainable supply of safe, are accommodated clean water to both refugee in 26 refugee camps, and host communities which have limited basic in Gambella, through a services and opportunities permanent distribution and depend largely on scheme. Thanks to the humanitarian assistance. water utility, three refugee Ongoing conflict, along camps (180,000 people, with food insecurity, approximately 64 per cent has led more than of them children) and 309,000 refugees to the host communities (30,000 Gambella region bordering people) receive water South Sudan. With a through a more sustainable population of 436,000, the management model.

A water network 80,000 people living in the in Jordan camp, including 45,000 UNICEF successfully children and young people. completed the construction By October 2018, all of new water and 14,363 households in the wastewater networks in camp were connected to Za’atari refugee camp in the wastewater network, Jordan. The aim was to resulting in the safe provide a more sustainable disposal and management flow of clean water and of all wastewater generated safe sanitation to improve by the households. the lives of the nearly

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 20 A water treatment environment. At the plant in Ecuador request of the Government Rumichaca is the major of Ecuador to improve border point between sanitation facilities in Ecuador and Venezuela. Rumichaca, UNICEF The crisis in the latter mobilized resources and has caused a significant partners to resolve this with increase in the number of the construction of a water people crossing the border treatment plant. Thanks daily, with peak crossings to this initiative, direct of 5,500 people per day. discharge of residual water This put significant pressure into the environment will be on sanitation services reduced by 75 per cent. A available in the transit second phase is currently centres. As Rumichaca being designed for the was not equipped with purpose of reaching 100 per a water treatment unit, cent treatment of residual it was discharging grey water at the Rumichaca water directly into the border point.

Water, sanitation UNICEF has worked with and hygiene partner Guyana Water Inc. capacity in Guyana to implement water supply Over the past year, Guyana and storage, sanitation has experienced an influx and hygiene promotion of Venezuelans seeking interventions through refuge from economic community consultations. and political instability. These interventions Many are migrating to the have targeted six host capital city, Georgetown, communities in the Barima- or to communities near the Waini region, touching Guyana-Venezuelan border. 4,540 people, 1,106 of Barima-Waini is one of the whom are migrants and regions receiving most of 442 children. the newcomers. There

21 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Towards a bolder vision UNICEF works with host communities more partners and governments holistically as they navigate around the world to expand the trauma of becoming work that drives progress displaced during conflict. across multiple key focus It is also a critical element areas, which include towards long-term, education, child protection, systemic change. The health, nutrition, WASH, following good practices disability, gender, youth and showcase our work that community engagement. best exemplifies the holistic The power of combining implementation of our focus areas allows us to programming. work with refugees and

Conditional cash programme for refugee By June 2019, nearly transfers for children in Turkey. The 511,500 refugee children refugee child programme provides had benefited. The child education in Turkey regular cash payments protection component of In 2017, UNICEF partnered to vulnerable refugee the programme reached with the Ministry of Family, children to encourage over 67,000 children (49 Labour and Social Services; school enrolment, improve per cent girls) and referred the Ministry of National school attendance and 6,250 children (43 per Education; and the Turkish reduce dropout rates. The cent girls) with medium/ Red Crescent to programme expanded high protection risks to launch the Conditional significantly in 2018 and specialized services. Cash Transfer for Education the first half of 2019.

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 22 Integrating refugee and coordinated and response into oversaw several activities. district planning All districts that participated in Uganda in the workshops were In Uganda, to which more able to prepare local than 1 million refugees council resolutions and have fled in the past 2½ recommendations to years, UNICEF set out to integrate refugee response embed refugee response contingency needs in their in the regular planning development plans, budget cycle of local governments. estimates and mid-term UNICEF’s process and reviews. Districts have also guidance drew on traditional adjusted administrative local government planning monitoring and reporting guidelines, as well as the frameworks to include UNICEF global results- refugee data. They are now based management able to access time-bound materials. UNICEF humanitarian support once supported workshops for it has been integrated in results-based management their annual plans; this and inclusive planning in all implies that critical support refugee hosting districts, can now be provided provided technical support flexibly through government and guidance, conducted financing mechanisms to mappings, managed cover both immediate and partnerships, recovery needs.

23 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Self-reliance through together. The programme basic social services intends to provide more in Ethiopia than 600,000 children – UNICEF’s four-year from both refugee camps (2017–2020) programme and host communities for Basic Social Services in – with access to quality Ethiopia aims at meeting education and sustainable the crucial needs of sources of potable water. vulnerable communities by It is also strengthening strengthening government service delivery in nutrition, and community systems, health and child protection. building capacity, and enhancing efficiency through strengthening linkages in services across refugees and host communities. Funded by UK Aid, the programme is providing basic services so refugee and host communities can live in harmony and prosper

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 24 No lost generation to focus attention on the levels and absolute sums plight of children and youth of funding for education The No Lost Generation affected by the Syria and and child protection in NLG initiative is a regional- Iraq crises and is now in countries tend to be much level multi-stakeholder its third phase, which will higher. The effects of NLG partnership co-led by cover 2019–2022. A 2019 are most easily discerned UNICEF, Mercy Corps, independent evaluation of in the education sector, Save the Children and NLG found that it had been where had it not been for World Vision, aiming to highly effective, raising the unprecedented levels advocate to governments awareness and generating of investment made, an and humanitarian decision political will behind a additional 2 million children makers on the need for common call for investment would now be out of school investments and policy in the future. The evaluation in the Syria crisis-affected shifts in the areas of also found that the initiative countries. education, child protection, seemed to have positively and adolescents and youth. influenced funding; the NLG was launched in 2013

Assessing Adjumani, Kamwenge, multidimensional Isingiro and Kampala. poverty in Uganda The exercise clarified the An assessment conducted understanding of UNICEF by the Economic Policy and its partners around child Research Centre, in poverty and deprivation collaboration with UNICEF, by demonstrating a Cardiff University and clear consensus across the Uganda Bureau of respondents about what Statistics, was the first- constitutes an acceptable ever attempt to use a standard of living, with few consensus-based approach differences between hosts to compare the situation and refugees. Using more of multidimensional conventional indicators of poverty among host and basic needs deprivation refugee communities (for water, sanitation in Uganda. By defining and shelter), the analysis the needs of children showed that there are in both communities, high rates of deprivation this survey will help the across all respondents, but Government better respond particularly among those in to them. The data was the West Nile and South obtained from sites in the West refugee populations. districts of Arua, Yumbe,

25 GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE Information Feedback Centres in Bangladesh’s Rohingya camps Extreme violence and persecution in ’s Rakhine State have caused more than 900,000 Rohingya people – an ethnic and religious minority – to flee their homes. The Integrating refugee provides an opportunity majority fled across the data into the Uganda to understand information border into Bangladesh. equity atlas on the level of progress When Rohingya refugees began arriving in Leveraging the Ugandan made by the districts in improving social outcomes. Bangladesh in August Government’s commitment 2017, they had limited to promote transparency By including refugee population data, the Atlas knowledge of what services and accountability in the were available or how to use of public funds, the provides comprehensive information on the overall access them. By the end of Uganda Equity Atlas is a August 2019, UNICEF had joint effort with UNICEF population as well. This can help districts budget and established 120 Information that aims to monitor the Feedback Centres (IFCs) in effective delivery of national plan resources to cover the overall population, the Rohingya camps. Run programmes affecting by various United Nations children. This initiative including refugees. The information will feed into agencies and NGOs, the provides a clear blueprint of IFCs have strengthened where public resources are service-delivery analyses for each sector to ensure accountability to affected reducing socio-economic populations by improving inequalities among children that refugees also benefit from basic social services, information dissemination, and adolescents and service delivery, and improving their lives – and promoting more inclusive service delivery. feedback about lifesaving where they are not. The behaviours and practices. information on the Atlas As of October 2019, more than 136,000 pieces of community feedback, queries, complaints and visitors to the IFCs had been recorded.

GOOD PRACTICES THAT BRING THE GLOBAL REFUGEE COMPACT TO LIFE 26 In action with our partners for every child uprooted

Looking at the dimensions of and within each country, a the refugee challenge, one ‘whole of society’ approach thing is clear: No one can tackle is needed if we want to make it alone. Hosting countries a real difference in the lives need the solidarity and support of those seeking asylum and of the international community, their receiving communities.

Looking at the scale of organizations, United the refugee challenge, Nations agencies and, one thing is clear: No more importantly, affected one can tackle it alone. communities, including Hosting countries need the children and young people solidarity and support of the themselves. international community, and within each country a Starting within the ‘whole of society’ approach framework of the One is needed if we want to UN, UNICEF is working make a real difference in closely with UNHCR, as the lives of those seeking well as with other United asylum and their receiving Nations agencies, to jointly communities. contribute to the objectives of the Global Refugee UNICEF believes Compact. UNICEF and partnerships and UNHCR are reorganizing collaborative relationships their responsibilities to are critical to deliver support refugee children results for children and more efficiently and to realize their rights. We effectively. work with a broad range of partners all over the UNICEF works in world: governments, the close partnership with private sector, civil society governments, supporting

27 IN ACTION WITH OUR PARTNERS FOR EVERY CHILD UPROOTED them in the diagnosis of The case of Ethiopia, are working together the major issues affecting explained in the previous to promote education, children and young people, section, is particularly protection and employment the formulation of policies interesting, as it portrays for refugee and host and programmes to the collaboration of the communities in eight promote their rights, and second-largest refugee- countries in northern and the strengthening of the hosting country in Africa eastern Africa and the systems and workforce with the support of a Middle East. needed to bring them donor government - UK all to life. In the context Aid. Another exciting UNICEF also works with of the Global Refugee example is the newly the private sector in Compact, UNICEF is launched PROSPECTS support of children’s rights uniquely equipped to partnership. Under the around the world. We are contribute to building and leadership of the Dutch particularly proud of the strengthening the link Ministry of Foreign Affairs, increasing commitment between the much-needed the partnership brings of many companies to humanitarian response to an together five agencies – put their resources and ongoing refugee crisis and UNICEF, UNHCR, ILO, IFC expertise at the service longer-term development and the World Bank – to of refugee and host solutions, including the try to shift the paradigm communities. For example, gradual inclusion of refugee from a humanitarian to a Microsoft launched a children into strengthened development approach in partnership with UNICEF national systems. responding to displacement- to address the education related crises. All partners crisis affecting displaced

IN ACTION WITH OUR PARTNERS FOR EVERY CHILD UPROOTED 28 and refugee children and ongoing collaboration with to ensure that they are a wide range of partners. protected from harm and The practises in Uganda exploitation. Microsoft and Kenya reflected in will support UNICEF and this brochure speak to the partners to implement a critical role of faith-based digital case management organizations, such as system, Primero, to help Latter-day Saint Charities, in social workers protect support of early childhood children worldwide; and, in development and education collaboration with UNICEF programmes for refugees and partners, will develop, and host communities. adapt and mobilize the Equally strategic is the Learning Passport, a digital involvement of private- platform aimed at ensuring sector partners that have access to quality recognized a particular expertise and learning in national systems. shared commitment in this field, such as the LEGO Our work in promoting early Foundation. Together, childhood development we have introduced is another example of the play as a form of

29 IN ACTION WITH OUR PARTNERS FOR EVERY CHILD UPROOTED psycho-social support for amplifying the visibility refugee children. Around of ECD – particularly in 500,000 vulnerable and emergencies – at high- conflict-affected children in level forums. To better Iraq, Jordan, and pursue our shared Egypt have been supported goals, we leverage the with child practitioner respective strengths of trainings and in-kind each organization – namely, contributions of LEGO play Sesame’s multimedia materials. content capacities and UNICEF’s established Sesame Workshop expertise and global also shares UNICEF’s network, along with the commitment to promote #EarlyMomentsMatter ECD for young children campaign – to promote and caregivers, with an playful learning and emphasis on reaching and parenting experiences to supporting parents. We are families in key geographies aligned in our child-centred for refugee and migrant approach to programming children. We hope to and collaborate on joint strengthen and expand the advocacy, including scope of this collaboration.

IN ACTION WITH OUR PARTNERS FOR EVERY CHILD UPROOTED 30 Another exciting example nothing without the most in the field of WASH is important of them all: the the collaboration with the affected communities Bill and Melinda Gates themselves, including Foundation in , children and young people. working together to identify Whether refugees, asylum- and implement innovative seekers, displaced people technological solutions to or members of the host treat wastewater generated community, they are by and discharged from loudly asking for their informal settlements, views and experiences to which can serve as a model be considered. UNICEF practice to improve global is firmly committed to humanitarian responses in supporting them in this similar contexts. endeavour and is partnering with – and investing in – All these partners are children and young people. critical in helping us deliver our work. But we could do

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