WASH, Child Protection and Education Response for Newly Displaced Communities in Rakhine State As a continuation of the previous MHF funded project under the 2019 MHF First Reserve Allocation, implemented by Center for Social Integrity (CSI) under a subgrant from Save the Children (SCI), this project aims to deliver education, protection and WASH at school support to children and their parents living in temporary displacement. The project will provide continued integrated response to the needs of women, men, girls and boys who have been displaced by the recent conflict in central Rakhine State, with a particular focus on IDP students and their caregivers.
 
Education interventions will focus on increasing access to safe, quality and inclusive education for 1,258 internally displaced and 1162 host community girls and boys, through a range of comprehensive services including distribution of equipment, teacher kits, recreational material, as well as through teacher continuous professional development training. Bench and table sets in sufficient number to allow all the displaced children to sit in 8 priority schools in Mrauk-U and Kyauktaw will be donated. 
 
Protection interventions will improve access to case management support for at-risk girls and boys, and ensure that vulnerable children receive adequate psychosocial support during their displacement. This objective will be addressed by providing Psychological First Aid (PFA)  and Child Protection (CP)  awareness among the displaced communities through a network of 22 IDP Volunteers, trained on 2 occasions by Save the Children under a previous grant, and whose capacity will be further strengthened during this project.  
 
WASH interventions will meet urgent sanitation needs in 8 schools affected by influxes of newly displaced students through rehabilitation and construction of latrines, and installation of hand washing facilities. Hygiene promotion sessions will be organized monthly in all the 8 schools covered by this project in Mrauk-U and Kyauktaw, where CSI will encourage the establishment of water committees.

Beneficiaries will include, men, women, boys and girls in the communities of intervention, with a particular focus on IDP students and their caregivers, who will receive more comprehensive and integrated support than the host communities. They have been targeted based on displacement status of individuals in the MHF identified townships of intervention. Beneficiaries will include IDP and host community students up to matriculation age at or near displacement sites as well as at targeted schools in the regions of intervention, as they will benefit from construction and rehabilitation of school latrines, installation of hand washing facilities, and provision of benches and desks. Beneficiaries will also include the caregivers of the students who will receive training on Psychological First Aid (PFA) and on Child Protection (CP), as well as CSI’s network of community volunteers, 80% of whom are themselves IDPs, whose capacity will be strengthened to cascade this knowledge among their community. CSI will ensure that the design of its programs is impartial and proportional to needs, taking all reasonable measures to lift barriers to participation specific to certain categories of people such as the elderly, the disabled, the chronically ill, women with small children and ethnically marginalized communities.