Provision of integrated emergency education and  child protection response to floods affected population  in Bardhere and Luuq districts of Gedo Regions. The project will provide educational support services and continuity of the education that had been disrupted the flash and floods. The heavy rains that caused flooding had given a shock to the school-aged children as their basic rights had been put in compromise. The implementation of the project activities ensures that the affected, marginalized, displaced, Minority, destitute, disadvantaged poor and needy communities in Bardhera and Luuq districts will have continuity in accessing to education and retention of children enrolled in the effected schools. Also, to ensure equitable access for education to IDP children, the project whenever feasible will support the existing schools to allow displaced children to enroll. Currently there are 5060 students enrolled in these target schools.
In addition, the project will strive to improve access to girl’s education by addressing barriers such as early marriage, lack of awareness of the benefits of girls education through comprehensive community engagement and awareness rising and provision of sanitary kits. Incentives will be paid to school teachers and administrators, teachers/CECs training on school’s safety, life skills and psychosocial support, as well as training of CP focal point on child protection and PFA/PSS will be provided under this project. Furthermore, the project will support the rehabilitation of the affected learning spaces/ classrooms, school WASH facilities   with the community contributing the site for construction and acting security watchmen during the rehabilitation. However, protection will be mainstream within the education activities in which HIRDA will closely work with SEDHURO organization in which SEDHURO will ensure identified unaccompanied children boys, girls are referred to HIRDA education sites as well HIRDA to ensure these children have adequate access to learning material.SEDHURO will also ensure to provide material support to these children in schools where their families were greatly affected by the floods thus leading proper coordination in protection and education needs of the floods affected beneficiaries have more coherent life-saving support, on the same note HIRDA will focus more on educational support of the vulnerable communities in the affected district through provision of learning material, rehabilitation of 10 floods affected school, capacity building of CEC and teachers 6 monthly teachers incentive as well as gender based violence, family separation, hygiene promotion as well as girl child education awareness raising.SEDHURO will provide dignity kits provision re-integration identified and referred children unaccompanied children as well as  focus much more on child protection vis and vis psychosocial and material support re-unification and tracing as well as child friendly space within the target areas while HIRDA will provide awarenss raising ,training of  20 CP focal points as well as 50 teacher and  70 CEC in which every 10 schools are represented by 7 Community education committee on PSS/PFA and childr protetion hence well coordinated response on both child protection and education in the target location
To achieve above stated objective the project closely works with the ministry of education Jubbaland state of Somalia specifically the district education officer (DEO) by facilitating logistical support to the DEO office for effective monitoring and supportive supervision for the project delivery.