Enhancing and sustaining access of conflict-affected children to quality, safe and alternative education in Kala-Balge  Monguno LGAs in Borno State. GOALPrime intends to target a total of 1200 individuals: out of which 1160 (60% girls and 40% boys) are children (learners age 3-17) including those living with disabilities in schools, camps, and host communities. The adult target will be 20 (50% women and 50% men) teachers who will be trained on improved teaching and learning approaches including PSS amp conflict-sensitive education. Also, 20 SBMC members (8 men, 8 women, 2 boys amp 2 girls) will be trained on safe schools, conflict-sensitive education and support to learners. A target of 5% of the overall individuals to be reached will be persons living with a disability. 

500 out of the total learner’s target will be Out of School Children (OOSCs) who will be identified in consultation with the community people and enrolled on the age-appropriate Accelerated Education Programme (AEP). Profiled OOSCs after the successful AEPs will be mainstreamed into formal schools in collaboration with LEAs, SAME amp SUBEB. The 1160 learners targeted will be supported with age and class-appropriate learning materials the 20 teachers targeted will be supported with class-appropriate teaching materials, while the 250 out-of-school children will be supported with Back-to-school enrolment kits.

Moreso, caregivers of targeted learners and OOSCs will be reached with positive parenting sessions for those who are able to come to the schools for the session while those who are unable to attend the sessions will be visited by the GPON CVTs (door-2-door). Targeted adolescent girls in school will be reached with Menstrual hygiene management life-skills sessions after which Menstrual Hygiene Management Kits will be distributed. The Pads in the kit will be reusable sanitary pads.

GOALPrime education team will work with child protection colleagues to identify OOSCs using the community-based PSS as an entry point and in collaboration with the Community Based Child Protection Committees (CBCPCs) and Local Education Authorities (LEAs) in Kala-Balge and Monguno LGAs to identify and profile Out of School Children (OOSCs) for enrolment during the termly back-to-school campaigns. GOALPrime will support the renovation of 3 dilapidated TLS in target LGAs  and also provide target schools with 3-seater classroom desks. GPON will also coordinate effectively with the LEAs at the LGA level for effective EiE service delivery to learners in target LGAs.

All approaches and activities will follow the COVID-19 Prevention and Control measures as provided by World Health Organization (WHO), State Ministry of Health (SMoH) and the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). GOALPrime will also integrate child-focused risk communication topics of COVID-19 into school club and Inter-House activity topics and themes. GOALPrime will also work with partners of other sectors across target locations and encourage their participation in enrolment drives and support to caregivers of learners. GOALPrime will be sensitive to the protection of the environment and ensure that our approaches and tools do no harm to the environment and the beneficiaries. GOALPrime will leverage this project to raise awareness of Climate change among learners accessing target schools and TLS’.
 
GOALPrime, through her NHF-supported Humanity Studio, will also support EIEWG with the designs of the sectors’ referral pathways, newsletters, advocacy notes and other relevant resource materials. 

GOALPrime is wrapping up the implementation of its education programmes in Kala-Balge and Monguno LGAs this September. Therefore, this project will support the continuity of Education service/support provided to the learners, teachers, SBMCs and caregivers of learners in the same LGAs building on the gains of the concluding project.