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The Emergency Education Response Programme has achieved considerable successes.

• The achievements of the EER are considerable, including large scale, multi-stakeholder mobilisation to provide access to formal education for 130,000 Syrian children within Jordan's public system and informal and non-formal education for 35,000 children.

Significant and urgent challenges remain related to access and quality.

• Some 40 per cent of children (97,000) still do not have access to formal education, and many of those who do experience difficult classroom environments. Overcrowding, decreased instructional times in double-shifted schools and inadequate teacher training all inhibit learning.

Alternative education programmes are valued, but require standardisation and pathways for progression.

• While alternative programmes delivered by NGO partners provide flexible education to 35,000 Syrian refugee children, they lack a full-time and structured curriculum, standardised measures of quality and a clear pathway into formal education.

Gendered challenges persist for boys and girls.

• Efforts around gender mainstreaming and capacity building, enhanced coordination and disaggregated reporting, show that gender is a priority. However, crucial gaps remain: programmatic focus is still overwhelmingly on outreach and support for girls, undervaluing the severe challenges boys face, such as high rates of child labour and low classroom engagement.

Moving out of the 'emergency' phase.

• Focusing on immediate education needs has enabled significant successes in terms of education access and roll-out of services, however as it becomes clear that the EER will have a continuing role over the medium term, the question of its sustainability is more urgent.

The Emergency Education Response Programme (EER), launched by UNICEF, the Government of Jordan and partners in 2012, aims to provide free public formal education, as well as safe and appropriate supportive educational services, for Syrian refugee children living in Jordan. RAND's evaluation identified significant successes as well as longer-term challenges, related to education access and quality and programme planning and coordination. The Programme's first responses to the Syrian refugee crisis were designed to meet immediate education needs, enabling many children to enrol in school. However, as the crisis has continued, medium-term, strategic efforts and planning have lagged behind events on the ground. Although the EER has successfully provided access to public education for 130,000 Syrian children, at least 97,000 remain out of formal school. Increasing Syrian access to formal education, as well as ensuring high-quality schooling for both Syrian refugees and Jordanian host communities, will require more attention. The Programme has also provided NGO-managed alternative education to 35,000 Syrian children. While they were reported to provide quality, child-centered, flexible education, they have lacked a full-time, structured curriculum and a coherent quality monitoring, and clear pathways for entry into formal education. Effective planning and coordination has been strengthened by improved data on implementing partners' activities. However, little evidence was found that planning decisions were being made on the basis of evaluating and comparing options. Key recommendations based on evaluation findings concern developing medium-term thinking, expanding public education, improving double-shifted schools and targeting gendered challenges, among others.

• Chapter One

  Introduction, background and approach

• Chapter Two

  Findings: relevance

• Chapter Three

  Findings: effectiveness

• Chapter Four

  Findings: efficiency

• Chapter Five

  Findings: cross-cutting issues

• Chapter Six

  Findings: sustainability

• Chapter Seven

  Recommendations

• Annex One

  Evaluation questions and summary findings

• Annex Two

  Further detail on methodology

• Annex Three

  Summaries of challenges, effective practices and remaining needs in key areas of the evaluation

• Annex Four

  Comparison (where possible) of budgeting requirements between 3RP and RRP6