Scaling up access to quality basic education and life skills training through integrating child protection services in IDP and Host community schools in Galgaduud Region. The proposed 12-month intervention will scale up access to quality basic education and life skills training through integrating child protection services in IDP and Host community schools in Galgaduud Region of Galmudug State of Somalia. The project will seek to improve enrollment of new entrants and retention of already enrolled children living in crisis and conflict affected areas into quality and inclusive basic education in a safe and protective learning environment. 

The integrated education amp child protection specific activities will include the provision of education supplies, emergency take-away food rations for students to meet their food and energy needs, enhanced schools’ water storage capacity through the provision of PVC storage tanks and water trucking to target schools, provision of dignity kits to adolescent girls to enhance their daily school attendance, emergency teacher incentives to motivate teachers to stay in the schools, Develop and strengthen local level referral pathways through child protection service mapping in Dhusamareb, Adado and Abudwaq which will support strengthening child protection systems in schools, including the recruitment and training of child protection focal persons at each school, and awareness raising and training of community education committees (CEC) on child protection. 

The project will target and support 3950 (40% girls) crisis affected children in 16 schools, 64 teachers and 48 CEC’s across Galgaduud region of Galmudug state. In Cabudwaq the project will target 1,892 learners (1,248 IDP’s amp 644 host), 36 teachers and 27 CEC’s in Cadado the project will target 663 learners (80 IDP’s amp 583 host), 8 teachers and 6 CEC’s in Guriceel the project will target 1,066 learners (382 IDP’s amp 684 host), 16 teachers and 12 CEC members while in Dhusamareeb the project will target 329 learners (67 IDP’s amp 262 host), 4 teachers and 3 CEC members. On the protection front the project will identify specific protection needs, inform service provision and serve as an entry point for specialized service provision with boys and girls. Targeted psychosocial support, psychological first aid, case management and emergency referrals will be provided to child survivors of grave rights violations, Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC), and children who show signs of trauma. 300 children will be targeted for IDTR and PSS provided, of which 30% expected to be reunified with their families. Service mapping will be used to support the whole community both in and out of school. 64 teachers and 48 CEC’s child protection capacity will be enhanced.

CISP education department will utilize the existing synergies with CISP protection department to assess the existing child protection mechanisms at the start of the project, and, as determined from the assessment results, targeted schools will develop appropriate action plans to address areas of concern. To measure the effectiveness of the child protections systems implemented and capture lessons learned, CISP will conduct an end line assessment. Through the CISP protection department engagement with CEC’s and the regional Gender Focal Points (GFP’s) of MoE, CISP will leverage the agency's apparatus and community assets to raise awareness among children on child protection and the established mechanisms which will serve to strengthen child protection in schools. 

To ensure water availability in targeted schools, CISP will contract a water trucker services which will monitored by CECs. Further, CISP will coordinate door to door enrolment campaign through CECs and religious leaders to encourage school enrolment with an emphasis on children affected by displacement.