Baseball5 Ignites Hope and Growth: AHEEN and WBSC Renew Partnership to Empower Refugee Youth in Kenya
The African Higher Education in Emergencies Network (AHEEN) is excited to renew its partnership with the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). This collaboration advances the AHEEN Athletics & Education Program, using Baseball5 to build resilience and...
AHEEN Welcomes The Tumaini Innovation Center as Newest Network Member
The African Higher Education in Emergencies Network (AHEEN) is pleased to announce the addition of The Tumaini Innovation Center to its membership. This affiliation reinforces AHEEN's dedication to advancing educational opportunities for refugees and internally...
Exploring the gig economy: Challenges and opportunities
The gig economy offers refugees and host communities new ways to earn, learn, and connect. But with unpredictable pay, limited protections, and the rise of AI, navigating this world of digital work isn’t simple. This new toolkit breaks down the opportunities, risks, and skills needed to succeed.
AHEEN graduate Humanitarian Interpreters contribute to professional development of UN interpreters
As part of a Learning Exchange workshop organised by the Interpretation Section of the United Nations Office in Nairobi on 25 April 2025, two refugee graduates, Tolossa Asrat and Mateyos Bogale, of the University of Nairobi’s Community Interpreting Diploma, , offered...
Mainstreaming refugee athletes in Kenya
AHEEN Athletics & Education refugee athletes and coaches are now registered with Athletics Kenya. When Athletics Kenya announced the launch of their brand-new athlete registration system AHEEN Athletics & Education seized the opportunity for mainstreaming the...
Understanding urban refugee education in Kenya
This study created evidence that informs eligibility and targeting of refugees for inclusion in urban refugee education, to consolidate and expand education support in high density urban settings, and to expand education provision for urban refugees. To achieve these...
OEB Spotlight presentation
AHEEN offers a comprehensive approach to quality digital learning in displacement. Our roots are in the learning sciences and in bottom-up approaches to learning, well-being and knowledge production. Listen to AHEEN’s OEB Spotlight presentation on Higher Education in...
DEPA – Integrative Social-Emotional-Learning for Displaced Youth
We are proud to share this research brief that demonstrates how we applied our innovative approach to the challenge of living together peacefully in displacement. Our results illustrate that when we apply scientific principles to learning in displacement contexts and...
AHEEN Research Statement
PAR is all about research for social change. This approach supports the development of skills and makes refugees and IDPs more employable; communities benefit as the knowledge created collaboratively helps solve their own problems, and the solutions generated will be...
Digital pedagogy for emergency contexts
The series of 9 Augmented Webinars aims to develop digital pedagogy capacity for preparing curricula and syllabi for teaching in emergency contexts. Follow the link to the resource document and the ADUN website to access all multi-media resources. The webinar series...

