Provision of life-saving Education and Health assistance to the most affected population in NW Syria. Shafak is proposing to implement an integrated health and education intervention, that aims at ensuring the continuity of essential health and education services in NWS through promoting equitable access and quality of education and health services for people and school children. An integrated approach will be ensured through linking the targeted beneficiaries from both components for instance, supported children with education will be served and/or referred as necessary to the targeted health facilities, and will be supported with awareness-raising on key health messages including hygiene issues and COVID-19. Furthermore, this action will be complemented with other health, nutrition, education, and protection assistance services provided by Shafak and other actors operating in the same areas. 

The proposed intervention will target 61,303 people (22,164 IDPs, and 39,139 HC) including  11,846 men, 17,577 women, 15,908 boys, 15,972 girls, of them 1,756  people with disabilities. The project will be implemented in the Suran and Aghtrin sub-district of Azaz district in the Aleppo governorate and in Dana, Qourqeena, and Salqin sub-districts in Idleb governorate.

The following services will be provided through this action:

1) Health:

Shafak will continue supporting a comprehensive package of health and outreach services including Primary Health Care (PHC) and community health awareness services in two of the existing facilities, currently supported by GIZ until the end of April 21, in Azaz District. The following facilities will be supported based on Shafak assessment, updated HeRAMS, and recommendation from Aleppo Health Directorate:

Aghtrin PHC center, (HF-Code: B0204077)
Ziadiyah PHC center, (HF-Code: B0204066)

Building on the already established and equipped centers, experienced teams, Shafak will continue providing static health services, outreach, and referrals, focusing on the most vulnerable of women, boys, girls, and PwDs. The services include pediatric, reproductive health (RH), nutrition, management of communicable and non-communicable diseases, providing essential medicines and medical supplies, and will be implemented in line with WHO guidelines (Pillar 9 of COVID 19 Preparedness and Response Plan). 

The health services will target 52,922 people including 11,643 men, 17,465 women, 11,642 boys, and 12,172 girls.

2) Education:

Shafak will provide safe equitable access to 4 non-formal and 12 formal education in Azaz district in the same locations targeted under health intervention, and in Harim district. The main activities are as follows:

1. Non-Formal Education services in four learning centers in Harim district through classroom learning modality (with plan B to resort to distance learning modality, based on developments of COVID 19). These No-formal catch-up classes will run in one cycle in summer to allow the transition to formal education, using the Syrian Interim Government (SIG) curriculum.

2. Formal education services in 12 schools in Harim and Azaz districts at the beginning of the school year 2021/2022 through physical classroom attendance modality. 

3. Psycho-social Support (PSS) sessions for school children using (I-DEAL) curriculum in formal and non-formal settings endorsed by UNICEF and CP sub-cluster. 

4. Establishing Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs).

5. Light maintenance and improvement of learning spaces while considering gender-sensitive and disability-friendly WASH facilities.

6. Teacher’s Professional Development delivered to 256 teachers (154 male, 102 female) on EiE, PSEA, and PSS, along with providing monthly incentives to education personnel.

The education activities will target 9,734 crisis-affected children (5,197 boys and 4,537 girls) including CwDs along with 403 education personnel (260 men, 143 women).  

The Integrated approach has been detailed in the Coordination and Complementarity Section due to characters count limit.