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The RET's Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) Partners

  • We currently have a Memorandum of Understanding with UNHCR, which fosters a respectful, complementary cooperation and symbiosis with UNHCR. We work closely with them to ensure that we are working in the priority areas where refugees need our attention the most.
  • We have also have a strategic alliance with UNESCO – IBE and IOM and welcome other opportunities to deliver our mission with greater strength and magnitude.

The RET's Implementing Partners (IPs)

The Foundation for the Refugee Education Trust selects implementing partners, in concert with UNHCR and after a stringent review to ensure that the Implementing Partners meet our standards of quality, integrity, transparency and harmonise with our organisational philosophy and ethics.

Are you interested in becoming an implementing partner? Please note that at the moment we are not accepting new proposals. Come back regularly! If you are interested, please send us an e-mail using our contact page.

The RET's Memberships

  • The RET and INEE
    Since 2001, the RET has been an active member of the Inter Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). We co-convene the INEE Adolescent and Youth Task Team (AYTT) working collaboratively with organisations such as the International Rescue Committee, UNICEF, and the Women's Refugee Commission to fulfil a common mission of ensuring quality education programmes for young people in situations of crisis. To this end, we disseminate programmatic resources, assessments, and tools to make sure the needs and perspectives of our youth beneficiaries are heard loud and clear by other agencies, practitioners, donors and researchers.

    The RET is also currently engaged in research of programmatic evaluations carried out by several INGOs towards the drafting of a primer on "Education Programming for Youth Affected by Crisis". The aim of this work is to develop a deeper knowledge base of educational programmes and activities for youth - to know which ones work and why they work - as a means of strengthening our collective advocacy potential and streamlining initiatives to best practices.

    The RET is also a co-author of INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction, and has been an active member of INEE Working Group on Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies since its creation.

    If you are interested in participating in the work of INEE Adolescent and Youth Task Team, please write to Nicolas Servas using our contact page.

  • Education Cluster Working Group
    Drawing on our strength as a programme implementing agency with field practitioners and staff supporting field-based education activities, the RET bridges the gap between practice and theory by ensuring the needs of youth affected by crisis are taken into account and that recommendations formulated at the Inter Agency level respond to concrete situations in the field. To this end, the RET also provides programmatic input to the IASC Education Cluster Working Group.
  • International Council of Voluntary Agencies
    The RET is a member of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA). ICVA is a global network of human rights, humanitarian, and development NGOs, which focuses its information exchange and advocacy efforts primarily on humanitarian affairs and refugee issues. ICVA attempts to influence policy and practice to reflect humanitarian principles and human rights through information-exchange and advocacy. 
  • In Latin America the RET is also a member of the Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. The objective of the task team is to draft a practical inter agency guidance on mental health and psychosocial support in emergency settings to enable a wide variety of stakeholders in humanitarian action - including affected communities - to deliver a minimum required multi-sectoral response to be provided even in the midst of an emergency.