Increase access of crisis affected boys and girls students to quality and protective education environment in Ariha sub-district The project aims to provide education and wash services to 12 schools related to 7 villages in Rural Idleb, Ariha sub-district (Ariha – Kafrlata – korin – Motaram – Nahliya – Shinan – Thaheriya) with focus on mainstreaming child protection in the educational process. 
The targeted schools are considered to be under-service with the absence of educational support affecting the quality of the education environment, and increasing drop-out of school’s rates especially with the increased percentage of IDPs more than 31.6% to the total population.
According to Sadad needs assessment, learning materials and stationery, recreational and PSS activities are in the top needs of students, while sufficient incentives, teaching materials, and capacity building (especially dealing with children with special needs) come at top needs of teachers. The assessment also showed urgent needs to light repairs and improvement of classrooms, gender-sensitive WASH facilities especially enabling access of children with disabilities, enhancing hygiene and health, as well as schools operational costs. See attached needs’ assessment.
By designing this project, Sadad puts in mind to address the most critical needs of boys and girls children to ensure safe and equitable access to protective, clean and quality education environment. This will be achieved through integrating education and wash interventions in addition to mainstreaming child protection in education as follow:
- Increase safe access to formal and non-formal clean education environment through conducting light rehabilitation in schools, where necessary, including classrooms, sensitive wash facilities for boys and girls children ensuring accessibility for all children especially children with disabilities in addition to provision of basic schools’ furniture and practice of safety and security plans to create safe and protective education environment. The project will also promote Back-to-Learning campaigns with the provision of education kits and schools bags to the whole targeted boys and girls students as well as awareness-raising campaigns including hygiene promotion and distribution of hygiene kits to boys and girls students in both formal and non-formal settings.
- 3374 boys and girls children (aged 5 - 17) will be provided with formal education, based on the adopted Syrian curriculum, during the academic school year 2019 – 2020.
- Responding to specific educational needs of students, especially dropped out of school children, by providing non-formal education classes 560 boys and girls will receive catch up classes during the year and in summer time to be re-enrolled in schools, in addition to providing 422 boys and girls enrolled in the schools with suitable textbooks to receive literacy and numeracy classes. 
- The project also intensifies efforts to improve quality and relevance of the education environment by providing schools with operational costs and paying a particular attention to the teaching force through providing 158 teachers working in the targeted schools with teaching materials, capacity development (teachers in crisis context, PSS safety, working with children with disabilities) as well as sufficient monthly incentives to 83 males and females teachers who are not receiving any incentives to enhance the quality of the education environment.
Moreover, the project will respond to protection issues through mainstreaming child protection in education and enhancing CP’s response mechanisms in targeted locations. This will be through providing teachers with capacity development on PSS and dealing with children with disabilities, hiring 4 PSS workers (2 females + 2 males) to provide boys and girls with PSS and recreational activities ensuring inclusion of children with disability in formal and informal settings. Awareness rising sessions will also target students’ females and males parents on topics including child labor, child marriage and children’s right to education.