Provision of digital tools for catch-up education, SEL, and MHPSS screening to the most vulnerable 35000 children in the rural areas ltp class="" dir="ltr" style=""gtltspan id="docs-internal-guid-b0e60d27-7fff-78a7-5608-d68cec300f91"gtTlt/spangthe project aims to ensure recovery, continuation, and progression of learning in core subjects of Ukrainian literacy and ltspan id="docs-internal-guid-cac356ea-7fff-e584-8914-e86521e257ab"gtSocial and Emotional Learning (SEL)lt/spangtltbgt lt/bgtthrough equitable access to education materials and digital learning tools. This is aimed at vulnerable school children in the rural communities of Kharkivska, Donetska, Zaporizka, Khersonska, Mykolaivska and Southern Dnipropetrovska oblast. The project will address the acute need for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and the early screening among children in grades 1-4. Students in combat areas or in territory freed up from the Russian Federation military after a prolonged period of occupation will be the key focus of efforts.ltbrgtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify"gtltbrgtlt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltspan style="font-size: 14px text-align: justify" id="docs-internal-guid-cac356ea-7fff-e584-8914-e86521e257ab"gtThe proposed action is cross-sectoral and will contribute to the Humanitarian Response Plan 2023 strategic objective #2 “Enable access to basic services for internally displaced people, non-displaced people and returnees” and specific objectives of both education and health clusters. The project will strengthen the resilience of the Ukrainian national education and health system (specifically, medical emergency response).  Educational recovery will on three key priority areas: providing teaching and learning to affected girls and boys in grades 1-4, areas affected by war and provide students close to the combat actions with access to multiple learning pathways and learning recovery opportunities. To achieve this, we will provide:lt/spangtltbrgtlt/pgtltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44margin-right: 27pttext-align: justifymargin-top:10ptmargin-bottom:10pt"gtltspan id="docs-internal-guid-cac356ea-7fff-e584-8914-e86521e257ab"gtltspan style="font-family:"gt1) Devices and Connectivity through procurement of lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gt100 mobile classrooms. Elt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtach to include 10 student convertible laptops, one professional teacher’s device, a set of accessible accessories for children with disabilities with all packaged in a charging station with a WiFi/LTE Router. Such mobile classrooms will be distributed to the schools within hromadas in need and can rotate within one district for 3x annual deep interventions during the academic year. lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtUnder this component, 10000 students will be reached.lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gt lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44margin-right: 27pttext-align: justifymargin-top:10ptmargin-bottom:10pt"gtltspan id="docs-internal-guid-cac356ea-7fff-e584-8914-e86521e257ab"gtltspan style="font-family:"gt2) lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtCatch Up Education via access to learning materials and digital tools in the Ukrainian literacy and SEL. Training of and deployment of lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtteachers in innovative crisis-responsive pedagogical skills, diagnostic and targeted interventions in the classrooms, individually and/or remotely to address learning loss. The educational technology allows a rapid at scale implementation of digital programs and central coordination via oblast administration and local education departments. Existing and certified digital literature and textbooks in Ukrainian allow short-term catch-up interventions to close the gap in the core subject of the primary school - reading and literacy.lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gt A much needed and acutely in demand SEL program is to be implemented during regular classes and in small group interventions lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtinline with the request from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MOES). This will enable children and teachers (especially those in the Eastern and Southern regions) to catch up, remedy and progress in their education. Hard copies a) of standardized tests to estimate and determine the existing gap in education, b) of methodology of catch up interventions and psychological support with SEL materials for schools will be provided to teachers and administrators. lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtUnder this component, 20 000 students and 10 000 teachers will be reached. lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44margin-right: 27pttext-align: justifymargin-top:10ptmargin-bottom:10pt"gtltspan id="docs-internal-guid-cac356ea-7fff-e584-8914-e86521e257ab"gtltspan style="font-family:"gt3) lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtMental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) early screening within regular classeslt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gt is provisioned through developing a methodology based on existing digital tools for early screening conducted by classroom teachers in schools and professional development of teachers in MHPSS.  lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtThe project addresses the same student and teacher population as in 2). lt/spangtltspan style="font-family:"gtChildren are one of the priority focuses of the MHPSS and the proposed project will provide strong support for MHPSS provision within the education sector.lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltp dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2margin-left: -0.1ptmargin-right: 27.25pttext-indent: -0.1pttext-align: justifymargin-top:9.95ptmargin-bottom:9.95ptpadding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.1pt"gtltspan id="docs-internal-guid-cac356ea-7fff-e584-8914-e86521e257ab"gtltspan style="font-family:"gtThe project has received a multi-cluster approval in Education and Health as fully aligned with the respective objectives. lt/spangtlt/spangtlt/pgtltpgtltbr class="Apple-interchange-newline"gtlt/pgtltp class="sceditor-nlf"gtltbrgtlt/pgt