Poor access to education can undermine people’s potential to improve their lives. The International Rescue Committee provides children, youth and adults with educational opportunities that help keep them safe and learning the skills they need to survive and thrive.

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Seven-year-old Ebalo Raimond is just one of the thousands of children living in the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania receiving vital education with the support of the IRC.
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

Learn more about our education goals and how we are working to meet them:

Ensure that children aged 0 to 5 develop cognitive and social-emotional skills

How we get there:

Ensure that school-aged children develop literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills

How we get there:

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Women in a literacy class at an IRC women's center in Mafraq, Jordan.
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

Ensure that youth and adults have high levels of livelihood, literacy, numeracy and social-emotional skills

How we get there:

Ensure that children, youth, and adults have regular access to safe and functional education services

How we get there:

Explore our education work.

Outcomes and evidence

The IRC's Outcomes and Evidence Framework supports people working in development and humanitarian aid to design effective programs. It delivers key information on outcomes related to health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power through theories of change that demonstrate how to achieve these outcomes, evidence for which interventions work or don’t work to achieve the outcomes, and guidance on how to measure progress against the outcomes.