Provide Education in Emergency Response to Conflict-Affected School-Aged-Population and Displaced Children in Ahwar District of Abyan Governorate Ahwar District in Abyan Governorate is a very large area with limited 33 local schools have a lack of sources can improve the condition of education system and mechanism. Ahwar is one of Yemen's most lacked-assisting districts for a long time especially in Education. 6,033 school-aged children face difficulty to have comfortable education environment making schools are overcrowded. IDP children also face difficulty to access the available functional schools. Schools that would enable IDPs are overcrowded which results in decreasing the education quality and environment badly, with over capacity only ten schools are accommodating big number of students. 

First, FMF will ensure coordination with the Education Office in Ahwar district to ensure signing a sub-agreement between FMF and Education Office. Then FMF with close coordination with the Ministry of Education Office in Ahwar, will directly assist 3,800 IDPs and host community school-aged children by contributing to Education Cluster Objectives. At the beginning, during the school vacation, FMF will ensure establishing, expanding or rehabilitating of 8 classrooms in two schools including and furniture for each school, besides, FMF will work on rehabilitating or establishing 10 gender-sensitive WASH facilities with consideration to standardize a comfortable designing for people with disability, targeting four schools in Ahwar. After that, the period after the schools vacation, FMF will work on conducting the Back-to School Campaign Ceremony for targeted 7 schools, then will work on providing 1,000 girls and boys, caregivers, and community members with awareness sessions activities and outreach, providing 70 teachers and educational personnel with attendance-based allowances incentives. Also, providing 3,800 children boys and girls, with learning materials in formal settings, and provide 311 teachers amongst the 33 schools in Ahwar with teaching kits. These all activities will be ensuring safe educational environment. Finally, FMF will be targeting 380 boys and girls students by PSS sessions, and educate surrounding community to report on such violations and exploitations, putting into consideration trainings for teachers, and FMCs on PSS and SEA reporting and referral mechanisms.

This project will be addressed beside three other projects currently be implemented in Abyan, Ahwar district that mainly target the IDPs and host communities in Protection, Health and Nutrition Sectors. FMF field teams deeply emphasize the need for education interventions in the targeted area. Many education-derived protection concerns appear daily, to which boys and girls in different age groups are exposed in the IDPs sites. The project will contribute directly to mitigating the exposure of the children (Boys and Girls) to serious protection risks. The project also provides protection aspects to avoid educational crisis and children’s rights violations that Yemeni children are vulnerable to, and investment in the next generation to develop their skills and capacities to rebuild Yemen again. Formation of parents council/school management committee. All these activities will target particularly nine schools in Ahwar which suffer from overcrowding in which it hosts 3,800 students boys and girls.