Integrated EiE and Protection services for new IDP and returnee children in Faryab province. SCI has been operating in Afghanistan since 1976, and is currently implementing various projects under Education, Child Protection, Health and Nutrition, Livelihoods and DRR in eight provinces of Afghanistan including Faryab targeted for this project. Since July 2016, Afghanistan has witnessed an influx of returnees from Pakistan and Iran and Internally Displaced People (IDPs) from different provinces of Afghanistan while Faryab is one of the provinces with high number of IDPs. Based on recent rapid assessments conducted, children of the displaced families are in need of immediate humanitarian support through education and protection services. The project will be started on 15th of February 2018 and ended on 14st of February 2019. From 15th of Feb to 22nd of March which is the start date of formal school year calendar, SCI will recruit the project staff including teachers and CFS facilitators, coordinate with Faryab PED, identify and filter the target children, coordinate with the hub-schools, contact with Shuras and register the students.

The mentioned SCI provincial rapid assessment in Faryab discussed with PED/DED and DoRR to identify the actual education needs in the affected communities. Through this project, SCI will provide a multi-sector activity (EiE and CPiE) with basic WASH services by establishing 95 TLCs/EiE classes for returnees, IDPs and host community girls and boys in Faryab (Almar and Qaysar in  Kuhna Qala, Bish Bala, Guzar, Sar Asyab, Yangi Tashqul, Bukhari Qala, Nughaily Payeen, Almar center, Dewana Khana, Chaghatak, Shoran, Khudaimad villages) province. SCI will provide teaching and learning materials to the EiE students, recruit and train EiE teachers on pedagogy, positive discipline and child safegaurding, train School Management Shuras on child rights, provide school renovation and improvement activities to the public schools based on the assessment that will be conducted in coordination with the school, PED and Shura as well as Directorate of Social Mobilisation and Shura (DSMS) and will support the most urgent needs of the school. The project intervention will also improve affected children’s personal hygiene by providing WASH services in the target communities. 

The project intervention will also support psychosocial wellbeing of affected children through establishing 95 Child Friendly Space (CFS) within EiE classes for 2,834 children(1,388 boys and 1,445 girls) age 7 – 10, and in order to address the targeted children protection issues the project Social Workers will refer estimated 200 children to the basic service providers in coordination with Child Protection Action Network (CPAN) in Faryab province. The project team will frequently engage CPANs at the provincial and district levels in coordination meetings and monitoring sessions. To ensure positive changes and strengthen protective measures at the household level, the project team will train 1000 parents of CFS targeted children on positive parenting skills. 

The project interventions will be directly implemented by SCI in Faryab province. The Project Coordinators will be directly responsible for project service delivery, and they will be supported by technical EiE and CPiE team. The 95 EiE and 95 CFS Facilitators will be identified and recruited in close coordination with community stakeholder to ensure sound recruitment. The project 6 Social Workers will also be recruited in consultation with community to ensure sustainability of the project. Through this project, SCI will provide EiE and CPiE services to the 10,006 beneficiaries directly and 30,018 beneficiaries indirectly with a total budget of approximately 0.7 M USD