Integrated Education, WASH and Child Protection in Bari and Nugaal Regions of Puntland The proposed 9-month intervention will improve access to quality education, increase access to critical WASH inputs and enhance child protection mechanisms in 18 schools for drought- and conflict-affected students and their surrounding communities in Bari and Nugaal regions of Puntland State of Somalia. All schools serve IDP populations but only one school can be classified as an IDP school. Education specific activities will include the provision of education supplies, emergency take-away food rations for students to meet their food and energy needs, emergency teacher incentives to motivate teachers to stay in the schools, and sanitary kits for adolescent girls to encourage their regular  attendance at school. Specific WASH activities will include increasing schools’ water storage capacity through the provision of PVC storage tanks, the construction and rehabilitation of latrines, and improving hygiene practices among children through engagement with community hygiene promoters (CHPs). As CHPs will interact closely with students during hygiene promotion sessions and recreational activities, RI will train this cadre on hygiene promotion, psychosocial support (PSS), and child protection and safeguarding. Specific Protection activities will include the mapping and sharing of existing child protection service providers and their respective services to school administrators and communities, strengthening child protection systems in schools, including the recruitment and training of child protection focal persons at each school, and awareness raising and training of community education committees (CEC) on child protection. RI, through CECs and other community volunteers, will deliver messages to schools and communities on key protection concerns affecting the community based on the findings of the child protection assessment. These messages will target prevention as well as the response in the event protection concerns arise. RI will also continue to engage with relevant government ministries such as the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEampHE), and  /or the Ministry of Women's Development and Family Affairs' (MoWDAFA). Relief International (RI) will provide training to CECs on their roles and responsibilities, food and water management, disaster risk reduction (DRR), civic skills, proposal development, and child protection in the respective schools. To ensure water availability in targeted schools, RI will provide cash grants to CECs. In return, CECs will contribute in-kind or cash to procure safe water and manage its distribution to students. Further, the CECs will be trained on DRR to build their capacity and improve school preparedness against future disasters. Child- and gender-friendly latrines in the targeted schools will be rehabilitated or, where necessary, constructed to minimize disruptions in learning for girls and boys. RI will coordinate a back-to-school campaign with CECs and religious leaders to encourage school enrollment with an emphasis on children affected by displacement. RI, in collaboration with the appropriate ministries, will assess the existing child protection mechanisms at the start of the project, and, as determined from the assessment results, targeted schools will develop appropriate action plans to address areas of concern. To measure the effectiveness of the child protections systems implemented and capture lessons learned, RI will conduct an endline assessment. Through engagement with ministry officials such as MoEampHE Gender Focal Points, and/or the MoWDAFA Regional Child Protection Coordinator and CECs, RI will leverage the agency's apparatus and community assets to raise awareness among children on child protection and the established referral mechanisms which will serve to strengthen child protection in schools and the larger communities.