Date of publication:

03/27/2025

Ethiopia

Do domestic laws and policies provide for acceptable quality education standards for education for forcibly displaced and stateless persons?

ANALYSIS

Assessment by population

Assessment by population
Refugees
Asylum-seekers
Analysis

In addition to the favorable provisions of the Refugee Proclamation on access to education, Ethiopia has endorsed the Djibouti Declaration and has taken concrete steps that promote the inclusion of refugee children in national education planning and facilitate refugee children’s access to national education services, including through giving refugees' access to the national education curriculum. 

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has included refugee education in the sixth series of Education Sector Development Plan (ESDP VI), for the period of 2020-2025, which is an important milestone as it is a guiding policy document regarding education in Ethiopia. The ESDP VI, under program four on access, equity and internal efficiency of education provides for formulating key strategies and activities to ensure equitable and quality education for all, with particular attention to disadvantaged groups, namely girls, students with special needs, IDPs and refugee children, pastoralists’ children, and out-of-school students. Furthermore, providing acceptable quality of education for all is one of the main guiding principal pf the 2023 Education and Training Policy of the country.