BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 24. The United Kingdom has signed a new £2.85 million contribution to UNICEF to extend a joint programme supporting education for refugee and vulnerable children in Jordan for another three years, from October 2026 to August 2029.
The new funding will help provide safe and inclusive education services for around 20,000 refugee children in Azraq, Zaatari and Garden camps. It will also support Jordan’s Ministry of Education in strengthening basic literacy and numeracy skills through a nationally developed remedial education system.
The programme will establish an Early Warning System to identify children at risk of leaving school and provide targeted support to help them continue their education.
According to UNICEF, safe and inclusive education services include hygienic learning environments, access to water and sanitation facilities, child protection measures and psychosocial support.
The funding will also assist the Ministry of Education in developing and validating a national remedial education model based on evidence from UNICEF’s Reading Recovery and Mathematics Accelerated Programmes. Learning materials, teacher training and assessment tools will be adapted to better support children with disabilities and learning difficulties.
UNICEF Representative to Jordan Marc Rubin said education is a fundamental right for every child, but ensuring access alone is not sufficient without helping children continue learning and remain in school.
British Ambassador to Jordan Philip Hall said the United Kingdom supports education in Jordan from early literacy and numeracy programmes to postgraduate studies, adding that cooperation with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education will continue for another three years.
The extended programme supports Jordan’s Education Sector Plan 2026–2030, Education Reform Action Plan, Education Resilience and Access programme, Inclusive Education Strategy and Out-of-School Children Initiative.
