Supporting the Vulnerable and Deprived Children in Kosovo Supporting the Vulnerable and Deprived Children in Kosovo Svenska Rädda Barnen söker finansiering från Sida om 1,5 miljoner SEK för att "Stödja utsatta och missgynnade barn med utbildning och skydd/hygienkit" på landsbygden i Kosovo under perioden 1 oktober 2020 till och med 31 januari 2021.
Den föreslagna insatsen kommer att fokusera på ca 700 familjer (ca 1400 barn och 1400 vuxna) som kommer att ta del av utbildning och skydd/hygienkit. Insatsen har ett särskilt fokus på barn med funktionsnedsättning. Insatsen kommer att stärka medvetenheten hos föräldrar, vårdnadshavare och barn om positivt föräldraskap utan våld samt relevant information om COVID-19.
Mer information i den engelska versionen av beslutet. Save the Children Sweden has applied to Sida for funding of 1,5 million SEK for  "Supporting vulnerable and deprived children with educational and protective/hygienic kits" in rural areas of Kosovo during the period 1 October 2020 until 31 January 2021. 

The proposed intervention will focus on approximately 700 families (with approximately 1,400 children and 1,400 adults) who will benefit from educational and protective equipment/hygienic kits directly. 
These families and children live in remote and rural areas -- including children with disabilities, Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian children will be supported with didactic and learning materials as well as technological solutions in order to enable access to learning platforms established by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with Save the Children, UNICEF and other partners. These materials, delivered in the form of care and learning packages through a carefully tailored process, will help vulnerable and disadvantaged children to narrow down the “learning gap” with their well-to-do peers. The protective/hygienic packages will enable children and their families to protect themselves and others at home and in the community; it will also support children’s access to classrooms and other learning environments. 
The Project will organize also awareness-raising activities to inform parents and caretakers – including children – on positive parenting without violence, sharing up-to-date information about COVID-19 and safety precautions, and by empowering them through targeted psycho-social support activities. The project aims to contribute to children’s educational development in Kosovo, particularly in underserved communities and remote and rural areas with limited or no access to technology and the internet, through a two-pronged approach that targets both children and parents separately to create for a holistic solution:Result 1 - Aiding girls and boys from underserved communities in Kosovo in better accessing distance learning, andResult 2- Empowering parents to better support their children through psychosocial support, positive parenting and COVID-19 information.
Under Result 1, the project foresees two main outputs in the form of children benefitting from educational kits and children benefiting from hygiene kits, both of which are meant to support children in their access to education.The educational kits will include 400 kits with education materials for children, and 300 kits with e-tablets and 3-month internet subscriptions to help children in remote areas access online lessons. The hygiene kits will include 700 kits with, among other things, hygiene materials, soap and hand sanitizer. 
Under Result 2, the project again foresees two main outputs in the form of three TV programs for parents and families with a psychologist / psychosocial support expert on psychosocial support, positive parenting and COVID-19 information and other materials on psychosocial support for parents and children.The project’s beneficiaries will be girls and boys with disabilities, those living in remote and rural areas and those from ethnic non-majority communities, including the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities and parents. The target age group for children will be 3 to 15 years old (pre-school and primary school age).
A clear and fair set of eligibility criteria for identifying the girls and boys will be designed beforehand, to ensure that only the most marginalized receive kits. Each kit will also include additional awareness raising material for parents and children on COVID-19, which will be designed beforehand.
Following the distributions, Save the Children will review the accountability mechanisms in place for complains, feedback, lessons learned and child safeguarding concerns. Any issues that may arise will be dealt with an appropriate manner.