The Learn Lab is a collaboration between UNHCR Innovation and UNHCR’s Division of International Protection.
Education is a key driver of sustainable development, and a core component of UNHCR’s mandate to protect 59.5 million uprooted people worldwide. The agency’s education strategy highlights the importance of learning outcomes and making lifelong learning accessible for all, from early childhood education to primary, secondary, higher and adult education.
The Learn Lab is a virtual space for innovation that helps UNHCR transform young people’s lives through educational opportunities that enhance interpersonal skills and foster a strong knowledge base, critical thinking, and conflict resolution.
The aim of the Lab is to ensure that every refugee and forcibly displaced person has access to relevant and high-quality learning opportunities that will enable them to serve as agents of change for their communities.
The Learn Lab’s strength lies in its collaboration with the Education Unit within UNHCR’s Division of International Protection, and the partnerships it builds with external leaders in innovation and education to help orient and validate programs.
The Lab contributes to UNHCR’s education strategy in a variety of ways. Its current focus is on increasing the capacity of education actors and enhancing access, quality and relevance of education at the primary level and beyond.
Watch this space to see the Lab evolve!
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