Scaling up access to equitable and quality education for children affected by the crisis of Syria in Idleb province within protective environments. The project consists of two main phases and will target 7 schools in 7 communities (schools’ details are attached due to the limited available chars) in Idleb (Salqin, Dana, Qourqeena) as the following:
1-Summer phase: the summer phase includes the rehab of schools and the provision of non-formal Edu to 7 schools as the following:
1-1-Provision of non-formal education to OOSC who lost years without education to transition them to formal Edu in the next academic year 19/20 and children who are at risk of dropping out or have poor education score, the total number of targeted children in all schools is 3001 including (1725 B,1276 G).GAN will provide catch-up and remedial classes in the summer phase,the curriculum B2 will be used and copies of it will be provided to students, as providing learning supplies for children (stationery, notebooks, bag..etc), and recreational activities are the key to motivate them to attend school especially in summertime, teachers and education personnel will be supported by incentives (95 teachers,16 admin staff,15 cleaners,7 guards),the period of this phase will last for 3 months from Jun to August.
1-2-Light rehabilitation for the above 7 schools, the scope of rehab will include the classrooms (windows and doors) as WASH facilities and adapt them to receive children with disabilities, in addition to provision of school furniture like (students’ desks, Cupboard, teachers’ tables and whiteboards),as integrating the solar power system to provide the need lighting for classrooms, WASH facilities and other electronic devices charge such as (laptop, printer, audio speakers, and projectors),GAN will prepare also the one CFS in each school and equip it with needed materials to provide PSS activities by the start of the academic year, these rehab activities will improve and increase the safe access to schools and ensure children are receiving education in a safe and protected environment, as parents might not send their children to schools due to the inappropriate school condition. Rehabilitating the targeted schools will make sure that school capacity is increased and more students can benefit its education services, as the result of our NA,the absorption capacity for the 7 schools will increase from 4680 students to 5900 students.

2-Academic year phase 2019/2020: provision of formal and education for the 7 schools, the targeted schools are the same target in the summer phase and accommodate about 4680 students including (2544 B, 2136 G) in the academic year 2018/2019 according to our NA, first, GAN will conduct BTL campaigns in the 7 targeted communities before starting the academic year to raise awareness about the importance of education for both boys, girls and flag the risks of not enrolling children in schools, after that ASER test will be conducted to help us better plan and focus on the needed type of educational activities based on ASER results, also to capture the impact of the intervention, children will be provided with learning materials (bag, stationery, notebooks..etc.) according to the gender and age as textbooks which was one of the challenges during the academic year 18/19,schools will be equipped with FAKs and fire-extinguishers and children will be trained on the safety and security plans, the PSS activities will be provided for all students as one session a week following the CP-sub cluster guidelines and referral pathways in addition to, the protection staff will be trained on CP minimum standards, all Education staff will be trained on EiE and INEE MS and unsupported staff will be provided with incentives during the academic year,the curriculum used is SIG and high level of coordination with ED and other working organization will be ensured to avoid duplications, the whole project activities will be implemented following the EiE, INEE guidelines and CHPs.