Provision of equitable, safe, inclusive, and quality emergency education services for IDPs, returnees and vulnerable host population in Tambura, Ezo and Nagero Counties, Western Equatoria State, South Sudan Community Aid for Relief and Development (CARD) proposes to provide an equitable, safe, inclusive, and quality emergency education services to IDPs, returnees and vulnerable host populations in Tambura, Ezo and Nagero Counties of Western Equatoria State.

Proposed project will target 5500 beneficiaries (girls=2,470 and boys=2,470, men=280 and women=280 that includes people with disabilities) of which 2200 in Tambura, 1650 beneficiaries in Ezo and 1650 beneficiaries in Nagero. These beneficiaries include men, women, boys and girls including those with disabilities. CARD will conduct consultative meetings with local leaders, Ministry officials leaders, County Education officials, Relief and Rehabilitation Commission (RRC) officials, School Management Committee (SMC), Parents Teachers Association (PTA) including key community members on project introduction and discussion consensus on implementation including discussions and planning of an integrated implementation approach with the education sector.

CARD will closely coordinate its actions with other clusters/ sectors such as Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Protection/ Child Protection (CP)  and Gender Based Violence (GBV) Area of Responsibility among others to ensure targeted populations receive holistic support by working closely with other actors such as World Vision, UNICEF among others in addition to working with relevant line ministries. 

Through this intervention, 50 teachers will be supported with teaching materials such as textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education and General Instruction, chalks, books, pens, files among other essential teaching materials 110 Parents Teacher Association (PTA)/ community education committee members (in 10 committees, with at least 11 people per committee/ school) will be trained for a week, with training on their roles and responsibilities and on psychosocial support, monitor the working of the school, prepare and recommend school development plan and monitor the utilization of the grants received from the appropriate donor, and on psychosocial support to give counseling. CARD will also train 50 teachers trained on Education in Emergencies (EiE), basic pedagogy and psychosocial support (PSS) and oriented on PSS, Child Protection and referral mechanisms which will include linkages with Child Protection Actors. CARD will in addition support 10 temporary learning spaces (TLS) (each with two classrooms) which will be established. Through Back to School Campaigns, the project will support 5500 learners to be enrolled in education facilities and these will be further supported through WASH in schools that will entail rehabilitation of WASH/ latrine facilities and provision of Menstrual Hygiene Management Kits and Hygiene kits among girls/ female youth of menstruating age.  Targeted 10 schools/ learning spaces (which shall include but not limited to Renzi Primary School, Mabenge Primary School, Ezo Primary School, Masumbu Primary School, Nagero Primary School, Mapiso Primary School, Maizee Primary School, Bandala Primary School, Nanzinga Primary School and Naandi Central Primary Schools) will be supported with Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials that will address early/ forced marriages and GBV referral.  Children with disabilities will be facilitated through disability inclusive actions in Tambura, Ezo and Nagero.