Sitting between the eastern Mediterranean and Syria, Iraq and Jordan, Lebanon is a tiny country with the world's highest concentration of refugees – one for every four nationals. Since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, it has taken approximately 1.5 million refugees, about half of whom are children.
In 2016, the Lebanese Government's Ministry of Education and Higher Education published the Reaching All Children with Education, RACE II, strategy. One of the aims of this ambitious endeavour is ‘ensuring that quality education opportunities are available for the most vulnerable children and families; whether they be non-Lebanese or Lebanese’. Under it, all children between the ages of three and six are entitled to a nursery place in the public (state) school system. The Race II plan also intended for Lebanon to achieve target 4.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that, by 2030, all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education.
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