Restoring access to safe and quality education and life-saving protection services to enhance the resilience of vulnerable individuals in Rural Damascus, Southern Idleb and Hama Governorates (Priority 2) The proposed intervention contributes to reducing the most severe education and protection vulnerabilities, enhancing the resilience of conflict-affected communities in Syria through a comprehensive Education -Child Protection (CP) -Early Recovery and Livelihood (ERL) integrated intervention. INTERSOS will enhance boys and girls access to quality inclusive education in priority locations under SHF SA1 Priority 2: Idleb (Tamanah, Heish), Hama (Kernaz), Rural Damascus (Arbin, Harasta). Areas of interventions are selected based on needs, priorities and already established presence through previous and ongoing Education, Protection, Health and Livelihood interventions. Boys and Girls, school personnel and caregivers’ psycho-social well being will be enhanced through a set of child protection school based activities. Families’ economic burden will be mitigated and their medium term livelihood improved through the engagement of vulnerable caregivers in vocational training leading to a productive outcome. A total of 7530 individuals will benefit from the integrated services provided (460M, 485W, 3292B, 3293G). The intervention aims, at Outcome 1, at enhancing the physical ACCESS to schools, ensuring the accessibility, installing/rehabilitating gender segregated WASH facilities, guaranteeing the minimum standards for hygiene services in school. Rehabilitation works will be complemented by the provision of solar panels, furniture, equipment and teaching material, while individual education and hygiene/adolescent dignity kits will be provided through In Kind Assistance (IKA) under the CP component. Under O2, the project will focus on enhancing the QUALITY of the learning environment. In coordination with the MoE and DoEs, School Headmasters and teachers will be capacitated through a professional development programme, follow up sessions and in class coaching, promoting the practical application of the competencies acquired. Parents and Teachers Associations (PTAs) will be established in each of the targeted schools and supported through a set of training. Capacitated PTAs will have a key role in promoting the relations school-community and a conducive learning environment through PTAs Led Initiatives. Boys and girls at risk of drop out, Out of School Children (OOSC), Children with Disabilities (CwDs), Adolescent girls, Returnees, IDP, Host Communities (6-17yo) will be targeted through remedial classes and Self Learning Program (SLP) alternated with structured Psycho-Social Support (PSS). Under the CP component, O3, vulnerable and marginalized students at risk or subject to violence, abuse or neglect will be supported through CP case management and IKA enhancing their psycho-social well being and contributing to school retention. The protection environment in schools will be enhanced by training Teachers, school personnel and members of PTAs on key protection topics including basic protection principles, CP, GBV, MHPSS, inclusion of CwDs, safe identification and referrals. In addition, teachers and other education personnel will be directly targeted by individual PSS to increase their wellbeing and improve their ability to support children at risk. Throughout activities, INTERSOS Staff, teachers, PTAs and personnel will safely identify and refer children in need of specialised services. Through the school based case management vulnerable caregivers will be identified and referred, against a set of socio-economic criteria to be engaged in vocational training, conducted under the ERL component - O4, promoting individuals self-subsistence and resilience. The training topics will be identified through consultations carried out in the targeted communities linking with labor and supply demand. Safely identified and capacitated Men and Women will be provided with the tools and resources/ assets to autonomously improve their economic conditions.
INTERSOS will implement the intervention directly under its sub-MoU with the MoE.