Improving the educational environment for the vulnerable school-aged children in the aﬀected schools of Salh district, Taiz Governorate, under priority (2) The war has wreaked havoc on Salh district of Taiz Governorate. The years of conflict have a negative impact on the education system pushing it to the verge of collapsing. Salh district has been classified by the education cluster as a critical district with severity scale 4 where the severity of needs means a complex combination of a lack of learning facilities, higher displacement, a lack of teaching staff, and proximity to conflict lines. In terms of educational infrastructure, the enclave part of Salh district has 22 conflict–affected schools, eighteen of which, including three schools for children with disabilities, are operating in temporary buildings (abandoned, unfinished, or rented houses) because their original buildings have been damaged or are still under conflict. These affected schools, particularly the temporary schools with 6030 school-aged students, suffer from the lack of school furniture and equipment (school desks, white boards, solar power systems, hygiene kits and cleaning materials, safety and security equipment) and shortage of teachers due to the protracted displacement. This big gap in needs impedes access to education for the vulnerable school-aged girls and boys in IDP sites and surrounding host community in Salh district. Responding to the needs of affected school-aged children, this intervention has been proposed with a set of activities in accordance with the cluster's objectives and the strategy of the SA1 of YHF 2022, under priority 2, focusing on the most vulnerable school-aged children in 18 highly affected schools, including 3 schools for children with disabilities, operating in temporary buildings in the enclave parts of Salh district (under IRG) of Ta'iz Governorate. More specifically, this eight–month proposed intervention comes to support access to safe and inclusive learning environment that promotes well-being and resilience for 6030 vulnerable school-aged children (disaggregated as 3,208 boys and 2,822 girls) including 835 IDPs (553 boys and 282 girls) and 340 children with disabilities (217 boys and 123 girls) in 18 targeted schools in Salh district through the following inputs. 
 Provision of 527 new school desks, 40 white boards with markers and erasers, 4 solar power systems and 5 hygiene kits and cleaning materials. 
 Provision of monthly attendance-based allowance for 200 volunteer teachers in addition to training on Mental Health and Psychosocial support and referral mechanisms. This training will help to mitigate and address protection risks and the needs of conflict-affected girls and boys. 
The proposed project has been designed based on the findings of needs assessment carried out by BCFHD in Salh district in July 2022 and will be implemented in coordination with Education Cluster, Education office in Taiz Governorate and Salh District, School councils and targeted schools managements in order to ensure participatory response and smooth deliverance of the assistance. Furthermore, this intervention complements a recently YHF-funded education project implemented by BCFHD in the same targeted area (in most of the currently targeted schools) under YHF 1st standard allocation 2021 and this means that  BCFHD will benefit from its experience to provide a more inclusive and complementary intervention.
BCFHD has all the required potentials to successfully implement the activities under this project because it is a technically expert organization in education that has successfully implemented several projects in the field, the focal point of the education cluster for South Taiz, has highly qualified and experienced staff, has a geographical and operational presence in the targeted district for more than 4 years through carrying out several projects in various sectors and maintains good relationship with all relevant local authorities and offices at the governorate and district level.