Date of publication:

08/21/2025

United Republic of Tanzania (the)

Do domestic laws and policies provide access to secondary education for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?

ANALYSIS

Assessment by population

Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Analysis

While primary education is explicitly addressed in policies, secondary education for refugees remains largely outside national legislative guarantees. Secondary education for refugees in Tanzania is predominantly delivered through humanitarian organizations, mainly within refugee camps like Nyarugusu and Nduta, relying heavily on external donor support and international NGOs rather than integration into the national education system. Consequently, refugees face significant barriers to accessing sustainable and recognized secondary education, limiting their opportunities for higher education, employment, and integration into society.

    LAW & POLICY

    Related provisions of domestic law or policy

    Fee-Free Basic Education Policy

    Legal provision

    Fee-Free Basic Education Policy - Generic

    Fee-Free Basic Education Policy - Generic

    The Education and Training Policy

    Legal provision

    Section 3.2.19 - Language

    The national language Kiswahili will be used for teaching and learning at all levels of education.

    The National Refugee Policy

    Legal provision

    Section 16 - Refugees and Education

    Education is a powerful tool in the process of adaptation and social Integration for refugees forms the basis for personal development and through education refugees Improve their chances to contribute to society through participation in the labour market and other processes when they go back home. For refugees, who have been uprooted and forced to flee, the process of rebuilding their lives in a new environment must therefore be momentous and as such they need to be facilitated by the easy access to education provision. Considering that refugees will eventually return home and In order to make it easier for them to easily reintegrate In their societies, the government will allow provision of education to refugees. In accordance with the curricula used in their countries of origin. As for post primary education, the government will encourage the international community through UNHCR and other agencies to establish special schools and Institutions in the camps.

    The Refugee Act

    Legal provision

    Section 31.3 - Education for refugees

    The Minister in consultation with the Minister responsible for education as regards secondary education and in consultation with the Minister responsible for higher education other than secondary education shall make rules prescribing- (a)fees; (b)categories of schools, colleges or Universities a refugee student can be enrolled and (c)prescribing any matter that may need to be regulated for purposes of better and effective implementation of this section.