Summary of literature

Reviewed literature has shown that education in refugee camps is faced by many problems. Various
factors have been identified at the camp, school, family and personal levels as key to the determent of
girls’ education in refugee camps. Research has shown that major camps issues include: insecurity,
sexual violence and exploitation, inadequacy of schools, lack or inadequacy of sanitation facilities such
as latrines, poor nutrition and socio-cultural values that are discriminative against the girl child among
others (WRC, 2009; UNHCR, 2005).