Maintain and Improve Safe Access to Formal and Non-Formal Education for Most Vulnerable Groups Including Children with Disabilities in Dana, Atareb, and Daret Azza Sub-districts The project's main aim is to maintain and improve equitable access to formal and non-formal education for the most vulnerable groups in three sub-districts, Dana, Atareb, and Daret Azza, in Northwest Syria through the provision of integrated education, protection, and WASH interventions. In the beginning, the project will target 5019 children (2732 B and 2287 G) and their parents (720 M, 1,600 W). The project will provide accessibility to children with disabilities (CwD), 221 as identified, 111 boys and 110 girls. Also, the project will provide job opportunities and incentives for 217 educational staff (111 M and 106 W). Besides, conducting hygiene promotion and awareness campaigns to children and staff and distribution of hygiene kits, along with providing protection services (CM, Referrals, Awareness raising, Risk Education, and capacity building) in the targeted schools
Formal education intervention, based on an in-depth assessment, the project will start by conducting minor rehabilitation on 7 formal education schools in target sub-districts. Besides, the WASH intervention will install 5 polyethylene water tanks in 3 schools. Also, the project will provide the schools with CwD-friendly equipment such as ramps, walking bars, and ADA yellow tiles and transportation means.  Moreover, the project will provide learning and teaching materials, printed textbooks, education kits, and recreational materials. School-aged children will be enrolled in formal education, will take on the ASER test. As well as, providing teachers with different pieces of training.
IRD will establish and equip two Temporary Education Centers, TEC, for 368 school-aged children, 191 B, 151 G, including 26 CwD. The TECs will provide children with Self-learning Program classes to help dropped out of school children get back to schooling. This component will provide learning and teaching materials, printed books and textbooks, education kits for teachers and students, and recreational materials.  The project will also conduct Back to Learning Campaigns, BTLs, which target children who dropped out of school into the 7 schools and the 2 TECs. 
In coordination with education staff, protection services will be delivered to students and parents in schools as follow:
-Case Management and Referral Service with 2 Case Workers (1M , 1F) after creating concrete service mapping for humanitarian and other services in the target areas focusing on most vulnerable children (child labor, CAFAAG, UASC, sexual violence survivors, and high risk cases) and referrals to multisectoral services (health, education, livelihood, MHPSS, FSL), in total of 460 BNFs (240 CM, and 220 Referrals).
-Awareness-raising sessions on CP concerns, along with Risk Education sessions targeting students on weekly basis sessions, and parents on monthly parents’ meetings (2732 B, 2287 G, 720 M , 1,600 W) which will raise the awareness about war remnants risks to both children and adults to build safer environment for children in their communities.
-Capacity building for project’s protection staff on CM, CM supervision, CPiE, CPMS, PFA, and Risk education for 13 full days training program targeting 22 staff members.
-Capacity building for education and WASH staff on CPMS, safe Identification and referral, and RE for 3 days training to support the protection mainstreaming and project’s sustainability along with expand the referral pathways system targeting (103M, 103F)
-IRD will conduct training for CM Global Guideline roll out to CM staff in targeting 80 staff (40M, 40F) after conducting coordination meetings with CMTF and CPSC to confirm the curriculum, training plan, trainer, training outcomes.
PlanB:
The target areas are considered safe in Syria, otherwise, IRD will move the workplaces to safer places such as Azaz or Afrin. IRD can implement all project components in these areas as it currently has offices in those areas and has an agreement with the Turkish Ministry of Education.