TY - JOUR A1 - Abu-Amsha, O A1 - Gordon, R A1 - Benton, L A1 - Vasalou, M A1 - Webster, B EP - 176 IS - 1 Y1 - 2019/12/01/ TI - Access to Higher Education: Reflections on a Participatory Design Process with Refugees VL - 5 N2 - Refugees face significant challenges in accessing higher education. It is clear that new and diverse solutions are needed that both understand and address the contextual barriers to higher education access for refugees. In keeping with new approaches in the wider humanitarian community, which recognize the role communities can play in creating new education solutions, our organization sought to employ participatory design methods in the development of a new program to support access to higher education for refugees in the Middle East (mainly in Jordan and Lebanon). This note provides insights into the implementation of the participatory process and details the impact the participatory approach had on the design of our programs. Finally, we highlight the need for gender-balanced recruitment strategies through our reflection on the impact of the design of the participatory process on those participating. Finally, we highlight the need for gender-balanced recruitment strategies and reflect on how the design of the participatory process benefited the participants and the initiating organization. SN - 2518-6833 SP - 156 AV - public UR - http://doi.org/10.33682/tm40-9q50 ID - discovery10088573 N1 - Copyright © 2019, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies. The Journal on Education in Emergencies, published by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. JF - Journal on Education in Emergencies PB - Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) ER -