Capacity
Development for the Displaced Persons: The Case for Secondary and
Post-Secondary for Refugees. (Kakuma Camp in Kenya)
Madut
A Majok
The principal objective of this study is to
critically review how refugee education had been conceived and implemented, and
to explore the possibilities of expanding refugee education to include both
secondary and post-secondary education. The so called education for the
restoration of the psychological needs of the affected children skirts around
the fundamental issue of education as a permanent asset that refugee children
should be equipped with. Concerns about basic education directly exclude a
substantial number of refugees whose studies at the upper level were disrupted
by the emergency.
This study examines the feasibility of
expanding refugees’ education to include secondary and post-secondary levels by
critically looking at the agenda of education as the “fourth pillar” of the
humanitarian response.