Integrated Education and Child Protection for Students in Bari and Mudug Regions of Puntland The proposed 12-month intervention will improve access to quality education, increase access to critical WASH inputs and enhance child protection mechanisms in 31 schools for drought- and conflict-affected students and their surrounding communities in Bari (Bareeda, Habo, Bargal, Qandala, Ufyan, Alula and Iskushuban districts) and Mudug regions (Galkayo district) of Puntland State of Somalia. The project will target 5,377 enrolled children (3,130 boys and 2,247 girls). Education specific activities will include the provision of education supplies, emergency take-away food rations for students to meet their minimum caloric needs, emergency teacher incentives to motivate teachers, and sanitary kits for adolescent girls to encourage their regular attendance at school. Specific WASH activities will include increasing schools’ water storage capacity through the provision of PVC storage tanks, safe water delivery to schools, the construction and rehabilitation of latrines and water storage tanks. Specific Protection activities will include case management for separated and unaccompanied children and GBV survivors, mapping and sharing of existing child protection service providers and their respective services to school administrators and communities, strengthening child protection systems in schools, including the recruitment and training of child protection focal persons at each school, linking schools to referral pathway outside the school and facilitating the development of school-level child protection action plans. Relief International (RI), through child protection committees, will deliver messages to schools and communities on key protection concerns affecting the community. These messages will target prevention as well as the response in the event protection concerns arise. RI will also continue to engage with relevant government ministries such as the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEampHE) and the Office of Puntland Human Rights Defenders. RI will provide training to CECs on their roles and responsibilities, food and water management, disaster risk reduction (DRR), civic skills, and child protection in the respective schools. To ensure water availability in the targeted schools, RI will truck safe water to all 31 schools but CECs will manage its distribution. Further, the CECs will be trained on DRR to build their capacities and improve school preparedness against future disasters. Child- and gender-friendly latrines in the targeted schools will be rehabilitated or, where necessary, constructed to minimize disruptions in learning for girls and boys. RI will coordinate a back-to-school campaign with CECs and religious leaders to encourage school enrollment with an emphasis on children affected by displacement. RI, in collaboration with the appropriate ministries, will map existing referral pathways and service providers and link schools to these services. Where pathways are weak or non-functional, RI will strengthen them to ensure effective response to child protection concerns. To monitor the effectiveness of the child protections systems implemented and capture lessons learned, RI will facilitate joint review workshops with schools, service providers, and relevant government ministries. Through engagement with ministry officials such as MoEampHE Gender Focal Points, Office of Puntland Human Rights Defender and CECs, RI will leverage the respective agency apparatus and community assets to raise awareness among children on child protection and the established referral mechanisms which will serve to strengthen child protection in schools and the larger communities.