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The Education and Protection for Refugee Children (EPRC) Project aims to provide education and protection to Myanmar refugee children living in two refugee camps in Bangladesh. The project seeks to create a safe learning environment for over 8,000 children through early childhood education, primary school, secondary school, and extracurricular activities. It also trains teachers and raises community awareness about child protection issues. While the project has increased access to education, it faces challenges like low attendance rates, a shortage of qualified teachers, and lack of control over the government-run school system. Going forward, it plans to advocate for refugee students to take national exams and possibly expand to higher grades, as well as improve education quality and learning environments.

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The Education and Protection for Refugee Children (EPRC) Project aims to provide education and protection to Myanmar refugee children living in two refugee camps in Bangladesh. The project seeks to create a safe learning environment for over 8,000 children through early childhood education, primary school, secondary school, and extracurricular activities. It also trains teachers and raises community awareness about child protection issues. While the project has increased access to education, it faces challenges like low attendance rates, a shortage of qualified teachers, and lack of control over the government-run school system. Going forward, it plans to advocate for refugee students to take national exams and possibly expand to higher grades, as well as improve education quality and learning environments.

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Education and Protection for Refugee

Children (EPRC) Project


Background: Project Objectives:
Myanmar refugees, typically Muslims who were
displaced from Northern Rakhine State of
To create a safe and protected
Myanmar about 25 years ago after being child-friendly environment and
stripped of their nationality, are temporarily
living in the two official refugee camps in Cox’s provide education to the
Bazaar district of Bangladesh. The Government Myanmar refugee children
of Bangladesh (GoB), with assistance from
UNHCR, is managing these camps. Since 1991, through education and child
UNHCR has provided protection and essential
services including shelter, water and sanitation
protection.
facilities, food and non-food items, education and
primary health care to the refugees in
collaboration with other UN agencies e.g.
UNICEF, WFP, UNFPA including national and
international agencies. Children and adolescents
affected by displacement face serious threats to
their safety, education, development, physical and Geographical Coverage: At two Registered
mental well-being, which can have long-lasting
Refugee Camps (Kutupalong and Nayapara)
effects. The children in the refugee camps are not
an exception. The majorities (nearly 68%) of the located in Ukhia and Teknaf Upazila of Cox’s
camp population was born in Bangladesh and Bazar District)
have only known life in displacement. Around 51% Implementing Partners: Village Education
of the total population are children below 18 Resource Center (VERC, since 2012 to 2016) and
years old. One third of this population is not CODEC (2017)
accessing education. The main education and Project duration: 01-01-2016 to 31-12-2016,
protection related gaps faced by refugee children yearly renewable, will continue in 2017
are no access to government schools, lack of Funded by: UNHCR
attendance in the camp based schools due to the
family preference of livelihood activities,
unavailability of qualified teachers in the schools,
early marriage, abuses of children, lack of
willingness and capacity of adults in listening to
children’s voices, limited capacity of children in
participating in decisions affecting their lives,
child exploitation through labor, lack of
child-friendly procedures, lack of a community
based approach to provide care and protection Children Parents
to children, and lack of community ownership of Target
available services. In this context, the proposed Groups
project will focus on strengthening the quality of
education by making teachers more accountable
as well as prevention and protection of
vulnerable children through identifying and
Teachers Community
resolving risks and incidents of child rights Members
violation in the project locations.
Major Achievements:
A. 1,846 children aged 3-4yrs enrolled in early childhood education;
B. 6,379 primary school-aged children enrolled in primary education;
C. 55% of teachers are female and 95% of total teachers are trained as planned;
D. 641 (85%) of secondary school-aged young people enrolled in secondary education;
E. Children's committees, Community groups, Adolescent clubs, Popular Theater Groups and other structures
are organized and awareness development for protection of children is going on;
F. Training on Positive Discipline in every day parenting is provided to 266 parents.
G. Community based Child Protection committee (CBCPC) and Child Protection Volunteers (CPV) are formed
and capacity building process is going on.

Major Challenges:
a) NGOs have little control over community and also on the program activities like recruitment, curriculum;
b) Teacher and student attendance rate is significantly low. In addition, they loss 20-30 munites in fmorning as
they have to attend in madrasha;
c) Scarcity of quality teacher;
d) Less emphasize on teacher development.

Future Direction:
i) Continue advocacy to allow EPRC students to appear in Primary Education
Completion Examination (PECE)
ii) Possible extension for Grade-IX and Grade-X,
iii) Advocacy with UNHCR and government to get a healthy physical setting for Crèche and PG Centre;
iv) Increase quality of Basic Education through increase the attendance and effective class room delivery.

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