[125], One teacher who works in a double shift school, and teaches five separate class levels, lamented that he was stretched too thin to be able to be the most effective teacher he could be, telling Human Rights Watch, “Why do I have to teach both high and low class years? The program also rehabilitates schools and builds new classrooms. More recent EU aid figures are available but do not clearly disaggregate education funding, or otherwise appear to under-state the amount of education aid provided, e.g. Mercy Corps has a smaller vocational training program, in partnership with Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and the Irbid Chamber of Commerce. [212] The target is to expand enrollment to 5,000 students. [5] Data compiled by No Lost Generation, on file with Human Rights Watch; see also Elizabeth Turnbull, “83,920 refugee children in Jordan out of school – UNHCR,” Jordan Times, August 20, 2019, (accessed March 18, 2020), https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/83920-refugee-children-jordan-out-school-%E2%80%94-unhcr. Syrian refugees have lived through almost 10 years of displacement, a situation which is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Although Jordan has five refugee camps for Syrians, 83 percent of Syrian refugees live in poverty in Jordanian cities. Prior to the introduction of the ESP, the education needs of refugees in Jordan were addressed solely through the JRP’s chapter on education. In order to accommodate two school shifts in one day, the education ministry initially reduced the number of daily hours of instruction for each shift. [63] “A Summary: 8 Years into Exile,” CARE International in Jordan, August 2018 https://www.care-international.org/files/files/publications/reports-issue-briefs/2018_CARE_Needs_Assessment_Summary_web_final.pdf at 2. Adam Coogle, Middle East and North Africa deputy director, Bill Frelick, director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Division, Emina Ćerimović, disability rights senior researcher, and Rothna Begum, women’s rights senior researcher, provided expert reviews. The program also provides life skills courses and internationally-accredited courses in English language and Informational and Communications Technology (ICT).[221]. ; see also Rana Husseini, “More professions to be closed to foreigners,”, Jordan: Secondary School Gap for Syrian Refugee Kids, https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria/location/36, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/2019%2011%20Jordan%20Country%20Brief%20November.pdf. [174], None of these plans set out specific targets for formal secondary education for refugee children in Jordan. Access your account or create a new one for additional features or to post job or training opportunities. When the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Jordan's Azraq camp in September 2020, Firas, a Syrian refugee and construction worker, was already standing by and ready to help. Jordan should continue to ease labor market restrictions that make it harder for Syrian refugees to escape from poverty which in turn discourages children from pursuing secondary education. That includes more than 745,000 registered with UNHCR from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and other countries, plus an estimated two million Palestinians. [74] Jordanian law sets 18 as the minimum marriage age, but allows for Sharia court judges to make exceptions for children as young as 15 years old. All education projects require approval from the education ministry. [23] “Education Quarterly Dashboard, Q4 2019 (Oct - Dec 2019),” Inter-Sector Working Group Jordan, p. 2. The interviews were conducted in Amman, Mafraq, and Irbid, areas with the largest numbers of Syrian refugees in Jordan. [123] Some Jordanian teachers working in afternoon shifts have said that inadequate resources led to a lower quality of education, as crucial support services like school counselors are often not made available for the afternoon shift despite working the morning shift in the same school. Recently, the Syrian War has caused a large influx of refugees to make their way to Jordan. From 2016 to the end of 2019, donors have given $356.4 million out of $522.5 million requested for education in Jordan. The Life of Syrian Refugees in Jordan. [217] The International Role in Mitigating the Syria Crisis on Education Quality in Jordan, p. 454. Curated pages dedicated to humanitarian themes and specific humanitarian crises. The most common coping mechanisms that Syrian refugee families in Jordan use to survive poverty are child labor to provide additional income and child marriage to decrease the number of dependents needing support. [84] Access to transportation to and from informal education centers was also a key issue raised by informal education students. Other education projects include: improvements in inclusive education (project 2018.2109.9, €4,000,000), sport through development (project 2016.4057.2, €7,850,000), and early education (project 2019.4054.3, €3,000,000). [74] Summary of Demand-Side Constraints and Interventions, p. 7. [111] Poor school infrastructure, a widespread problem in Jordan, has a particularly negative impact on children with disabilities. [177] Education Strategic Plan 2018-2022, Foreword. 2018/401259, Progress Report on Education Quality for 100 Centres and Schools: Final Report,” AECOM International Development Europe SL and PROMAN, 24 June 2019, pp. Even “open” fields have maximum quotas for non-nationals. [121] Syrian refugee children report that they are learning little in class, and caregivers often perceive their children’s education as low quality. [33] Jordan: Positive Steps on Education for Syrian Children, Human Rights Watch, August 22, 2016, https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/08/22/jordan-positive-steps-education-syrian-children. In August 2019, they received a notice that they would no longer receive support from the UN—just four months after the family of eight had received an eviction notice for being badly behind on rent. [57] Over a third of refugee daily workers had lost their jobs due to the pandemic, UNHCR’s representative in Jordan stated. [211] Questcope, “Our Work,” http://www.questscope.org/our-work. Interview with Samira, Amman, October 13, 2019 (I-18). Find help on how to use the site, read terms and conditions, view the FAQs and API documentation. [8] TVET Country Profile: Jordan, June 2019, https://unevoc.unesco.org/wtdb/worldtvetdatabase_jor_en.pdf. Going forward, the JRP will continue to include a chapter on education, but should align with the ESP. For a lesson, they just write a word in English up on the board and then go sit on their [smart]phones.”[130] Bassma described a similar situation for her 14-year-old son Ibrahim, and his 10-year-old brother Nabil, at a school in Irbid. To alleviate Syrian refugees’ poverty, in 2016, Jordan pledged to facilitate refugees’ access to employment by increasing their quotas in sectors where they were not seen to be in competition with Jordanians. 9, The Rights of Children with Disabilities, UN Doc. Ministry of Labour Syrian Refugee Unit: Work Permit Progress Report, December 2019, https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/73629.pdf. [187] “Commission Implementing Decision on the multiannual action programme 2019 and 2020 part I, in favour of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” November 29, 2019, p. 1, https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/sites/near/files/c_2019_8748_jordan_aap_2019_2020_part_1_commission_implementing_decision_en_merged.pdf (accessed May 10, 2020). [6] In the last quarter of 2019, 6,936 out of an estimated 27,300 Syrian children in the upper-secondary-school-age range, were enrolled in classes 11 and 12, a gross enrollment rate of 25 percent; net enrollment was not specified. List of organizations that are actively providing ReliefWeb with content. Jordan is located in a volatile region that has witnessed many refugee and migration crises. [205] The NRC's Safe and Inclusive Schools (SIS) program involves working with a school over two years to train school personnel in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), anti-violence and anti-bullying, classroom management, and school cleanliness and hygiene. 34, 36, https://www.unhcr.org/5a5e16607.pdf; Jordan: Multi-purpose Cash Assistance 2018: Mid-Year Post-Distribution Monitoring Report for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, UNHCR, https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/65143, p. 20 (accessed May 20, 2020). Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has been working with 70 other refugees to build a quarantine site to accommodate the camp's inhabitants should they test . Syrian schoolchildren line up for assembly in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Jordan should work with NGOs to foster and support education projects that can reach secondary-school-age children in their challenging life circumstances. For example, Mercy Corps, with funding from Relief International, helped the education ministry develop an application that allows teachers to assess needs and learning styles of students with disabilities, and then provides guidance accordingly on how to develop individualized teaching plans and what teaching styles would be most effective. [113] Interview with Karam, a Jordanian secondary-school teacher, Mafraq, October 12, 2019 (I-16). An education expert said that it was common for Syrians with university degrees to be unemployed or unable to find work except unskilled labor: “People say, ‘what are you going to do with education?’ [Some students] have no hope for the future.” One Syrian woman said she wished to smuggle her family to Europe because “there is no future for my children in Jordan.”. The Syrian situation is one of the largest humanitarian and displacement crises in the world. [140] Interview with staff at an international NGO, Amman, October 11, 2019 (I-4); calculations based on “Monitoring, assessment and support to EU and other donors‐funded Education and complementary programmes implemented by the Ministry of Education to deal with the Syria refugee crisis, Project No. [215], In addition, UNICEF reported that as of 2019, a total of 5,000 children ages 9-12 had taken a “catch-up” program, certified by the education ministry, that also provides pathways back to formal education. [18], Enrollment rates for Syrian children of secondary school age begin to diverge from those of Jordanian students at around the age of 12. The U.N. agency for refugees said Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, that it has confirmed two coronavirus cases in the Azraq camp. In the last quarter of 2019, the Gross Enrollment Rate was about 25 percent; the net enrollment rate is not specified. In 2015 Jordan closed its border with Syria and suspended the bailout procedure altogether. [206] These programs improve students’ chances of continuing through secondary education.[207]. [238] "Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education," A/73/262, July 27, 2018, paragraphs 122-126. https://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/73/262 (accessed May 24, 2020). Take immediate measures to ensure that upper-secondary education is available and accessible to all free of charge, and that children remain in and complete lower-secondary education (classes 7 to 10) which is compulsory in Jordan; Regularly publish disaggregated OpenEMIS data on secondary-school enrollment and attendance by refugee students, including data on students with disabilities; Publicly, permanently reject the rule that bans children who have been out of compulsory education for three or more years from re-enrolling as an unjustified barrier to education; Continue to expand the certified non-formal “drop-out” education program, which currently reaches only a small fraction of children who have been out of school, to ensure that these children have access to remedial education programs and can continue to secondary education; Ensure that “back-to-school” campaigns to respond to Covid-19 related school lockdowns, are over-inclusive and encourage students who are out of school for other reasons prior to school lockdowns to also return to school and benefit from any remedial programing established; Lift the ban on children who complete the “drop-out” program from attending actual schools if they choose, while continuing to allow them the option of studying at home for their secondary school examinations; Permanently waive the requirement that Syrian refugee children must present an interior-ministry-issued “service card” as a requirement for school enrollment; Support more civil-society interventions that provide secondary-school age children who are out of school with education, that do not require them to access public schools in order to get a certified education; Provide all school teachers, including in second-shift schools, with quality, in-service training, including on inclusive education; Improve the quality of education and levels of student retention, and target interventions at second-shift schools where there are the worst transition rates from basic to secondary education; Accelerate and expand efforts to enroll more Jordanian and Syrian children with disabilities, and set specific goals and benchmarks for inclusive education at the secondary level; Ensure reasonable accommodations for children with disabilities, and that schools are physically accessible including at building entrances, classrooms, and toilets. [215] Review of Policies and Initiatives 2012-2018, pp. Many school buildings in Jordan need renovation, and 21 percent of schools are rented – meaning they are in buildings not meant to be schools, often with different sizes of classrooms, inappropriate designs for learning, limited outside space, and insufficient and inaccessible toilet facilities. He described the difference: “In the private school, you can tell the teachers actually feel like teaching the class. “A Summary: 8 Years into Exile,” CARE International in Jordan, p. 4. [209] Since 2013, the program has reached 4,695 Jordanian and Syrian children between the ages of 6 and 17, but a breakdown of Syrian secondary-school-age children is not available. Syrian families frequently told us that the sacrifices required to keep children in school were difficult to justify because of the low quality of education and the minimal benefits that an education would bring. [157], Bassma, a Syrian woman whose daughter has dropped out of school, recounted a similar story. Syrian refugee children of secondary school age who dropped out of school cited, in interviews, their perception of the low value of the education available to them as a reason. Remove the exception to ensure that the minimum age of marriage is set at 18 for both boys and girls. Based on data compiled by the UN in the last quarter of 2019, in the first or morning shift in host-community schools, nearly 32,000 Syrian students were enrolled in classes 1 through 10, and 5,122 Syrians enrolled in classes 11 and 12. The objectives refer specifically to secondary education only in regard to funding requests to build new schools. 13, 28; see UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. [66] The only Syrian in a class of 100 students at her university, Rima loved studying law, and still dreams of completing her education. It also called on governments to show flexibility in enrollment requirements, and to ensure that refugee girls have access to school at all levels. Enrollment rates for Syrians decline from age 12, at 92 percent; age 13, 84 percent; age 14, 72 percent; age 15, 53 percent; age 16, 41 percent; age 17, 32 per cent; age 18, 15 percent; age 19, 11 percent. A/810 at 71 (1948), art. Using the same qualitative data, this study specifically explores the causes of family separation for Syrian refugees living in Jordan and obstacles to reunification. 66. [3] Amelia Barry, “How Jordan is educating their new Syrian population without building new schools,” SBS, January 26, 2018, (accessed March 15, 2020), https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2017/12/21/how-jordan-educating-their-new-syrian-population-without-building-new-schools. https://www.nuffic.nl/en/publications/education-system-jordan/, p. 6. Production assistance was provided by Travis Carr, Publications and photography coordinator, Jose Martinez, senior coordinator, and Fitzroy Hepkins, administrative manager. “Security crackdown on and arrests of young men ‘chilling’ in front of a girls’ school in Amman Directorate,” Roya News, January 22, 2020, https://royanews.tv/news/203429?1579687899. Syrian refugees make up about 70% of Jordan's farmworkers. List of alerts, ongoing and past disasters covered by ReliefWeb. 14, https://www.unicef.org/jordan/media/2171/file/Education%20Budget%20Brief.pdf. [101] Jordan profile, Qudra, https://www.qudra-programme.org/en/qudra-1/countries/jordan/. A detailed survey conducted during the 2017-2018 school year of 18,000 Syrian refugee children in Jordan found that only 15 percent of Syrian 16-year-olds and 21 percent of 17-year-olds were enrolled in secondary school, as compared to more than 80 percent of Jordanian children of both ages. [112] One secondary school teacher in Mafraq told Human Rights Watch that students with disabilities at his school face increased barriers due to lack of accessible infrastructure and accommodations. [26] First-shift students, primarily Jordanians, received fewer hours of instruction than their peers at single-shift schools. An error occurred while subscribing your email address. 2018/401259, Progress Report on Education Quality for 100 Centres and Schools: Final Report,” AECOM International Development Europe SL and PROMAN, 24 June 2019, pp. [235] Recommendations, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Day of General Discussion on "The Right of the Child to Education in Emergency Situations," paragraphs 26, 31-32, Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2008. We need sustainability from international funding.”[196] An aid worker recalled meetings with education ministry officials in 2019 who were frustrated that funding flowed to education projects in which the ministry had no role, and decided that more JRP money should go to building or renovating school infrastructure, since it is easier to track how such money is spent. Tom Porteous and Clive Baldwin provided program and legal reviews. [216], The goal had been to enroll a total of 25,000 students in the “catch-up” and “drop-out” programs by the end of 2017. Now I work in any jobs I can get – construction, carpentry, anything.”[69], Children of secondary school age are more likely than younger children to be affected by coping mechanisms that many Syrian families resort to in order to survive, such as child labor and child marriage. Roughly 80 percent of all Syrian refugees live below the poverty line in Jordan. [239] Jordan specified a minimum age of 16 years, changed its labor laws in this regard in 1996, and had adopted a National Action Plan to eliminate the worst forms of child labor by 2013.[240]. [199], A humanitarian education official described concerns because of an overall “lack of funding and focus on the out-of-school case load,” which includes both Jordanian and Syrian children. [46] Cindy Huang and Kate Gough, “The Jordan Compact: Three Years on, Where Do We Stand?,” Center for Global Development, March 11, 2019, https://www.cgdev.org/blog/jordan-compact-three-years-on. [183], Based on annual reports about the regional humanitarian response framework, Jordan’s funding requests for education since 2013 amount to $800 million. [54] Victoria Silva, “Learning under lockdown: How Jordan's students are adopting to the coronavirus pandemic,” New Arab, April 16, 2020, https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/indepth/2020/4/16/learning-under-lockdown-jordans-students-adapt-to-coronavirus-pandemic. While class 5 had 28 students, class 9 had just 9 students. [21] Jordan Population and Family Health Survey 2017-18, https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR346/FR346.pdf, p. 14. . [93] In a school with 5 classes of 42 students each, approximately 60 students had dropped out. This study analyzes the land-use/cover change of the area near and surrounding the Zaatari refugee camp between 2002 and 2018 to better understand the landscape change since its formation in July 2012. [222] Interview with Mercy Corps staff in Amman, October 2019. [47], Key programs that provide direct humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees appear to have declined, in terms of the total number of people receiving assistance and the amount that each person received. [131] In multiple cases, we spoke with Syrian students who attended a regular “single-shift” school initially, but once the school became overcrowded, it was turned into a double shift school and they were transferred to the afternoon shift. With so many secondary-school-age children dropping out of school, “the education ministry cannot do it alone,” a humanitarian education expert said, but UN and NGO programs are reaching very few children with support for secondary education. [223], All children have the right to quality education without discrimination. [171] Syrian families who move in Jordan may update their cards by registering with a local police station, but poor families that move repeatedly during the year in search of seasonal agricultural work may be unable to complete the procedures needed to gain a valid MOI card, or lack information about how to do so. In 2016, UNHCR distributed $85 million in cash assistance to 136,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan, or $625 each. Mahdi, 17, came to Jordan from Homs when he was 10 years old. Child marriage is also contrary to international human rights standards, which recommend 18 as the minimum age of marriage. Poor quality of teaching was cited as a reason for dropping out by 20 percent of Syrian children, in one survey. [112] Jordan Nationwide Assessment in Public Schools for Strategic Planning, 2015-2016, https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/43212, p. 10. Id., Annex 4, pp. Until it does so, the education programs run by UN agencies and large international NGOs are insufficient in scale to close the secondary education gap for Syrian refugee children. [30] “Project No. [166], However, some school directors continued to require the MOI card, in contravention of the education ministry directive. Taking a gender lens to the data on Syrian refugees in Jordan, Middle East Development Journal, 10.1080/17938120.2020.1753995, (1-35), (2020). Vocational training and life-skills programs run by NGOs also supported 2,800 adolescents. [240] The Jordan National Action Plan for Children, 2004-2013, UNICEF, https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/mdg_workshops/mdgreports/jordan/unicef_jordan_resources.pdf (accessed June 6, 2020), Brussels Friends of Syria Conference Should Address Massive Dropouts, Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice, Human Rights Watch is a 501(C)(3) nonprofit registered in the US under EIN: 13-2875808. AMMAN — The World Food Programme (WFP) was forced to alert 110,000 Syrian refugees that their WFP assistance will end in October, Alia Khafaga, the communications officer at the WFP regional bureau in Cairo told The Jordan Times on Wednesday. It was a “drop-out” learning program that allowed secondary-school age students to obtain a class 10 certificate and study at home for their final tawjihi examinations. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to our partners for their tireless efforts and generous support over the past years, particularly line ministries, UN agencies, the donor community and national and international NGOs. One girl said that her teachers were unmotivated and spent class time on their smartphones. [167] Syrian parents continued to list the lack of an MOI card as a reason for non-enrollment in survey responses. [172] Summary of Demand-Side Constraints and Interventions, p. 4; Georgia Swan, “Undocumented, Unseen, and At Risk: The Situation of Syrian Refugees Lacking Civil and Legal Documentation in Jordan,” International Catholic Migration Commission, September 2017, https://www.icmc.net/sites/default/files/documents/resources/jordan-syrian-refugees-legal-documentation-final.pdf, p. 9. Learn more about ReliefWeb, leading online source for reliable and timely humanitarian information on global crises and disasters since 1996. [195] Interventions deemed “soft” include remedial education, nonformal education, psychosocial services, and a host of other projects, many of which are essential for many Syrian children, but take place outside of the formal school system. 3, entered into force January 3, 1976, arts. The lack of Syrian teachers may contribute to the perception, among Syrian students and parents with whom we spoke, that teachers subject Syrian children to xenophobic or discriminatory statements, neglect, or punishments. [38] Work permits for Syrian refugees in Jordan, International Labour Organization, 2015, https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---arabstates/---ro-beirut/documents/publication/wcms_422478.pdf. Latest humanitarian reports, maps and infographics and full document archive. [12], As children progress in their education in Jordan, their schools are more likely to be segregated by gender: 55 percent of primary schools are mixed, but only 28 percent of secondary schools are; 28.5 percent of secondary schools are girls-only, versus 43.5 percent for boys. Syrian refugees face risk from coronavirus 03:06. Only one case was reported in Jordan in early March 2020, but by 10 April 2020, the number of confirmed cases had increased rapidly. Jordan has provided refuge to an estimated 1.3 million Syrians, including some 670,000 people officially registered with the UN as refugees. Jordan September 2020 Jordan is one of the countries most affected by the Syria crisis, hosting the second highest share of refugees per capita in the world. The end of assistance to the 110,000 refugees, a fifth of the WFP's target population in Jordan, will come as a result of severe funding shortages . Found inside – Page 51Chair: Sadhana Manik, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 41 Language Education Problems Related to Syrian Refugees Education in Turkey and Jordan ... [149] Syrians who surmount countless obstacles and make it to higher vocational education or university may not be allowed to work in their field; 24 fields, such as engineering, work in schools, and in higher education, are restricted for non-Jordanians or need special permission, and 13 other professions including car repair, hair care, and electrician are completely closed. Transportation costs not only lead children to drop out of school, they can also restrict a child’s ability to enroll in the first place. Nine years into Syria crisis, Jordan still serves as a leading model in responding to the crisis through its unwavering support and generosity by hosting 1.36 million Syrian refugees and meeting their humanitarian and resilience needs. [105] Review of Policies and Initiatives 2012-2018. Tiltnes, Zhang and Pederson, The Living conditions of Syrian refugees in Jordan, Fafo and Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, p. 80. [50], The number of Syrian refugees receiving food assistance from the UN World Food Programme has also declined, after recovering from a disastrous budget shortfall in 2015. For example: As the Syria crisis continues, Jordanian officials are pushing for a greater proportion of donor aid for education to be directed to school construction and rehabilitation, even as a shift in the management of donor education funding will give greater authority to government ministries rather than humanitarian education actors. [81] The World Food Programme, the food-assistance branch of the United Nations, has been providing food assistance to Syrians in Jordan through a voucher program which allows refugees to buy food in local shops, since the war in Syria broke out in March 2011. 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