Increasing access to education and child protection response to conflict and drought affected communities in Marka district, Lower Shabelle Region The intervention is to support access safe quality education in line with Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education (MoECHE) standards in a protective environment per Minimum Standard on Child protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) through improving equal access to education to 1192 school going-age children (aiming 50% girls) by ensuring equal opportunities to both girls and boys so as to promote holistic activities aimed at ensuring child well-being and protection. By Using awareness and mobilization on child right, COVID-19 prevention / mitigation (risk communication and community engagement –RCCE) as well as advocating against harmful practices, strengthening family-based care initiatives (awareness on risks associated to family separation which include but not limited to COVID related stigma, recruitment / use of children by armed forces / armed groups) and improve the capacity of the community with ministries guidelines on prevention of COVID-19 strategies.
Activities during school closure 
- Ensure continuity of learning through the implementation with maintain quality learning and wellbeing of teachers and students during the COVID-19 by (1) tracking children access to different forms of alternative learning (2) ensuring supported to maintain physical and mental wellbeing and (3) strengthening teachers.
- Facilitate food support to school children should be provided through in-kind distribution (food basket/child)
-  Increase access of child protection and PSS services to children through deliberate effort to link communities with CP and PSS service through teachers by (1) linking to social media /communication/SMS channels for head teachers e.g. WhatsApp per camp (2) orientation of the head teachers and school focal points into supporting children and their families in accessing CP and PSS services, CP messaging and (3) feedback sessions with the head teachers /school focal points (online or via phone).
- Ensure teachers should continue to be paid for as long as needed during depending on the duration of the school closure.
Activities linked to Re-opening of schools
- Facilitate the safe return to quality learning for teachers, learners and school communities after the COVID-19 emergency
- Constructing Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) with social distance standards
- Availing teaching and learning materials (TLM) to all children and supporting safe initiatives with aimed at protecting children by building their capacities on child protection and rights approach.
- Teacher focused training in INEE/TiCC and rights approach to  teachers including, the head teachers, CEC and school management 
- Water tracking for  children in six (6) schools at estimate 3 liters consumption per child while in school per day.
Ensuring children which protection concerns access remote case management, receiving referrals for children under case management linked to school administration and the community, organizing safe distant recreational activities to support PSS and promoting learning of child rights through children conference/ networks clubs (and safe online modalities for peer to peer learning and support) to ensure child participation in the supported network of schools in  vulnerable communities  as result of multiple shocks. Ensure administration trainings (including COVID-19 prevention, remote/ distance learning) and on-job support to Principals/head-teachers, CEC members including on supervision, child rights, information management (including accountability and reporting mechanisms) as well as roles in child safeguarding, disaster risk mitigation and risk prevention. 

SOYDA will ensure increased community awareness and mobilization per RCCE to children family and educators theCOVID-19 CECs amp the CBCP Focal points to support remote case managem