UCR Policy Brief on Education

This Policy Brief on Education asserts that humanitarian organizations will continue to be vital in ensuring millions of chil- dren receive educational and mental health support critical to their development.

Learning in a school setting is vital to children’s mental health, positive social development and academic achievement, therefore education must be fully funded in the humanitarian response. Barriers to in-person learning must be ad- dressed by Ukraine and host governments to shift the degree of reliance on online learning.

Humanitarian learning hubs that integrate education, protection and mental health and psycho-social support for Ukrainian students and parents, demonstrate the necessity to adopt a wholistic approach education in the formal school system, to effectively meet the needs of dis- placed children.

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