In the Ethiopia operation, there are currently close to 50% of refugee children in the appropriate age of education between 3 to 18 years who are out of school and over-aged. The Accelerated Education Program (AEP) is a flexible, age-appropriate programme, run in an accelerated timeframe, which aims to provide access to education for disadvantaged, over-age, out-of-school children and youth. AEP is essential but due to lack of resources no AEP programme is currently running. 

While catch-up programmes provides short-term transitional education programme for children and youth who had been actively attending school prior to an educational disruption, which provides students with the opportunity to learn content missed because of the disruption and supports their re-entry to the formal system, education partners are providing based on the needs on the ground. Classes are lost mainly due to security incidents, and in response to that catch-up programmes are arranged by education partners. The interruption of classes due to COVID 19 pandemic is a case in point where education partners have organized catch-up classes to compensate for the lost learning. 

Furthermore, remedial classes provide additional targeted support, concurrent with regular classes, for students who require short-term content or skill support to succeed in regular formal programming. Education partners provide remedial classes targeting slow learners to improve their performance and girls as second group as they have addition burden in the family lowering their education participation and performance. There is no bridging programme on-going in the operation. Based availability of resources, this may apply for the new influx from Sudan as the language of instruction is different from that of their country of origin.