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Executive Summary
The Education Sector Working Group conducted a comprehensive needs assessment survey involving 4,156 households from diverse national backgrounds.
The survey revealed insights into school enrolment and attendance, basic needs, and inclusiveness, including the needs of children with disabilities in earthquake-affected provinces. It also identified challenges faced by children from both Turkish and refugee’ communities of various nationalities, including those not directly affected by earthquakes, across Türkiye.
The assessment findings reveal that out of the 8,517 school-aged children (51.90% girls) in surveyed households, 2,567 were not attending any education programmes (30.14%). This includes children from earthquake-affected communities, encompassing those from both host and refugee communities, residing in areas impacted by the earthquakes and those in provinces unaffected by the earthquakes. In the southeast region, 24.15% of children in surveyed households were not attending any education programmes.
The impact of these findings is felt across various communities. Among the Turkish households impacted by the earthquakes, whether displaced within affected provinces or relocated to nonaffected provinces, 26.71% reported that their children are not attending any educational programmes, a significant portion of whom (75.25%) were children aged 5 years old. For Syrian refugee households in affected and non-affected provinces, 29.85% of children are not attending any education programmes, with 43.73% of them being 5 years old and 29.13% aged between 6-9 years. The situation is equally concerning among Afghan households, where 55.38% of school-age children are not attending any education programmes, with 63.08% of 5-year-olds and 26.13% of 6-9-year-olds not attending. Additionally, refugees from other nationalities like Iraq, Iran, Somalia, and Yemen report 54.95% of school-age children from their communities are not attending any education programmes, with 63.09% of those not enrolled being 5 years old.
The factors contributing to children’s not attending any education programmes comprised financial limitations (21.48%), registration hurdles (14.30%), issues related to distance to school or transportation (14.00%), overcrowded classrooms (9.33%), and child labour (6.22%), primarily encompassing children employed in the agricultural sector. Most school-aged children from surveyed households fell within the 6-9 age range (35.61%), followed by 10-13 years (27.21%) and 5-year-olds (19.40%), with those aged 14-17 constituting (17.78%).