Improving Protection and Education among communities in crises in Dhusamreb district The proposed 12-month SHF project intends to provide safe access to quality education through the integration of child protection. The projects targets 2478 beneficiaries (70% IDPs and 30%host communities) poor vulnerable school aged childrenin and 78 adults in Dhusamreeb and Guriel.  School aged children 1800 {810 girls}) will be supported with access to life-saving protective learning environment while 300 children with protection needs will be supported through the identification, documentation, family tracing and reunification and PSS support, 200 caregivers, 100 GBV survivors and the remaining 78 are teachers, CECs and CP focal points in the community and schools
The project operational area is the IDPs and poor vulnerable host communities in Dhusamareeb and Guriel of Galgaduud region of Somalia. 

Although the programme aims to indirectly benefit all children in both target locations, the project will focus on school aged children who are out of schools, at risk of child recruitment, vulnerable to abuse, exploitation and violence. There will be two categories of these target children: children who are out of school to be enrolled in the existing functional schools. They will be attending afternoon shifts when classrooms are free to be used as in the morning shift used by community supported programs. The second category will be children with child protection concerns such as unaccompanied and separated and vulnerable children. These children will be identified, supported and referred in the community and in the schools by the child protection focal points. The project intervention include:

1800 (810 girls) will be provided teaching and learning materials and access to safe protective learning environment while 300 UAMs/SC and vulnerable  (60% girls)  will be supported with protection services like tracing and reunification of families, PSS, and referral to specialized services to available protection services. 200 caregivers, 100 GBV survivors. 24 teachers (15 male and 9 female) will be provided with 100 monthly emergency incentives to motivate them to teach in the schools and enable children learn. In each of the 6 schools, 2 teachers (1 female, 1 male) will be appointed as child protection focal points who will be trained on referral pathways and reporting mechanism.Equally, child protection service mapping will be conducted to facilitate the referral system and enhance service delivery to the children. Also, children will be provided psycho-social support through recreation activities at the schools and at the community. At the community mobile child friendly spaces will be established to reach out children in the community. Protection service mapping will be conducted to identify available protection service in the community. 
42 CEC members (24 male,18 female) will be trained on school development plans and management, child protection, referral pathways, and PSS. The CECs will be responsible to resolve conflicts within the schools, manage and mobilise resources to sustain the school activities after the project duration ends. 12 CP focal points will be trained on child protection with more focus on PSS, referral pathways, mapping protection services and resolving community sensitive conflicts. 500 adolescent girls will be provided with sanitary pads for a period of 12 month. This will enable them to attend school regularly and improve their academic performance at the schools