The Norwegian Refugee Council’s Better Learning Programme (BLP) is an evidence-informed, classroom-based non-specialised psychosocial support (PSS) approach designed to help children and youth affected by conflict and displacement regain their wellbeing and readiness to learn. BLP mobilises teachers, caregivers and trained facilitators to deliver the BLP to children and young people through three core components: BLP-1 (universal classroom-based PSS), BLP-2 (small-group or classroom support that strengthens executive functioning and study skills), and BLP-3 (specialised PSS for children showing symptoms of chronic traumatic stress). The programme has also been adapted for adolescents and young adults through BLP Youth, and for staff/teachers/caregivers through self-care and peer-support modules (known as BLP-T).
Under the Right to Wellbeing 2025 (RtW25) initiative, NRC sought to institutionalise BLP1 and BLP2 across its Education Core Competency globally, embedding non-specialised PSS through the BLP into NRC’s education strategy, systems, and structures at global level, and improving the capacities, quality and consistency of BLP across country offices (COs).
This summative evaluation examined the extent to which BLP has been effectively institutionalised across NRC’s Education Core Competency under RtW25, and what has enabled or constrained that process.
