Enhancing safe access to Education services with Covid-19 preventive measures in Dana and Darkosh sub-districts This project is going to provide a package of education services with innovative modalities that enhance safe access to the most vulnerable groups of children to continue receiving their formal and non-formal education services.
Non-formal education will target 500 of most vulnerable children aged 7-8 years who are newly displaced without any access to education during this academic year in 5 IDPs sites and their parents aren’t sending them to the schools off camps fearing of Covid-19 and we selected these ages because children at this age supposed to be in grades 1amp2 which considered the entry grades for the children to formal education and this will help them getting the basic skills in the main subjects(English – Arabic – Math)to rejoin the formal education after completing the catch-up classes at the end of the project through contracting with 15 non-formal mobile teachers to provide catch-up classes(on two rounds),each round will last for 3.5 months to 500(260 boys amp 240 girls) most vulnerable children and implementing a series of Covid-19 preventive a and mitigating measures in 23 opened not supported schools that provide formal education services and the teachers are working voluntarily ,16 schools in Dana sub-district and 7 schools in Darkosh sub-district including (establish a Covid-19 response team in each school consists of head of school -2 security guards – 2 cleaners and pay their incentives for 5 months and train 453 teachers(239 men amp 214 women) and supporting staff in 23 schools on preventive measures of Covid-19 and how to make referrals to suspected cases and CP basics and safeguarding, distribute cleaning and sterilization kits to 23 schools for 5 months(till the end of this academic year), provide PPEs kits to 453 teachers (239 men amp 214 women) in 23 schools on monthly bases, distribute PPEs kits to 12,736 children(5751 boys amp 6985 girls) in 23 schools for once, conduct daily and weekly cleaning and disinfection to 23 schools, provide awareness sessions to 1000 parents(610 men amp 390 women)and 12,736 children(5751 boys amp 6985 girls) including 184 children with disabilities on the preventive measures of Covid-19, conduct referral pathways from schools to specialized health , protection and other services, set up safety and evacuation plans in schools and train the teachers and children on them, contract with internet supplier to provide the schools with monthly internet packages for the children whose classes are quarantined at homes after having confirmed positive case in their classroom to ensure the continuity of their education during the quarantining period.

SoP is the lead and will be responsible for implementing the project activities in the targeted 7 schools in Darkosh and SOP amp SCA( sub-IP) will be jointly responsible for implementing all the project activities in 16 schools and SCA will be responsible for implementing all the project activities in the 5 targeted IDPs sites in Dana sub-district with close coordination between the teams of SoP and SCA in Turkey and Syria in the implementation stage and for more details about the roles (kindly, see the scope of work in the attached documents)