The Impact of Healing Classrooms Tutoring on Children's Learning and Social-Emotional Outcomes in Niger

During the school year 2016-2017, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) delivered Healing Classrooms remedial tutoring programming and additional low-cost, targeted social-emotional learning (SEL) interventions to children in Diffa, a region in Niger affected by recurrent Boko Haram attacks. After twenty-two weeks of program implementation, access to Healing Classrooms tutoring significantly improved students’ reading and math skills, and adding targeted SEL interventions to Healing Classrooms tutoring improved children’s overall school grades. However, there was little evidence of the direct impacts of the additional targeted SEL strategies on children’s social-emotional outcomes.