Integrated education and protection response for displaced people in Tawilla in North Darfur The project focuses on responding to the needs of newly displaced communities in Tawilla locality in North Darfur. Around 12,900 children will benefit including 2,545 children (1,273 girls, 1,272 boys) from Education interventions and 10,350 (5,869 girls, 5,417 boys) from Child Protection. 
Under Education, the project focuses on ensuring displaced children and host communities have access to inclusive and protective lifesaving education in formal schools. The project targets 2,545 children (1,033 girls, 1,212 boys) aged between 6-14 years, who are currently enrolled in five schools as well as 300 out-of-school children (at least 80% girls) for enrollment. This will be achieved through mobilizing communities, local education authorities and school management to identify additional volunteer teachers, particularly women, as well as providing necessary support including the establishment of classrooms and provision of supplies. Since the current girls’ enrollment is slightly less than 50%, efforts will be made to target girls of the out-of-school children (at least 80%). This will be through community awareness session on girls’ education and provision of additional supplies for girls to reduce the school fees and burden on parents who are already stressed by losing their livelihood. The project will construct semi-permanent classrooms to reduce overcrowding, enroll out-of-school children and improve the environment for children sitting in open and unshaded classrooms. The new classrooms will be provided with seating mats. The schools will be supported with WASH interventions including the construction of gender-sensitive latrines with hand washing facilities and water tanks. Hygiene clubs will be formed and trained to improve the hygiene situation and disseminate health/hygiene and environment preservation messages to their peers. Essential teaching, learning and recreational materials as well as textbooks (grades 1-3) will be provided. Teachers will be trained on cycle one curriculum (grade 1-3), core subjects and inclusive education. Both teachers and Parent and Teachers Associations (PTAs) will be trained on psychosocial support and positive discipline with emphasis on gender issues and different needs of boys and girls. Mine Risk Education (MRE) in the form of awareness sessions will cover both school children and communities. To strengthen response capacity of the frontline responders, the project will organize training for Ministry of Education (MoE) officials and local partners on contextualized Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) standards. The two workshops will bring officials from the other priority localities of ND (Kabkabiya, Dar el Salam, El Fasher, El Sireaf, Kutum and Saraf Omra). Around 60 officials and local partners will be targeted. 
The Child Protection component will focus on responding to psychologically distressed children affected by the emergency through the establishment of 6 Child Friendly Spaces (CFSs) to address the psychological needs of 10,350 children aged 3-18 years (5,869 girls, 5,417 boys). Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) services will be provided to 235 unaccompanied and separated children (120 girls, 115 boys) through community based mechanisms and the States Council of Child Welfare (SCCW). The project also seeks to provide assistance to the most vulnerable including 69 children with disabilities (39 girls, 30 boys). Existing Community-Based Child Protection Networks (CBCPN) will be supported through capacity building to respond effectively to child protection concerns and monitoring child rights issues. They will also raise awareness on key protection messages among the newly displaced and host communities. Topics covered will include Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS), Female Genital and Mutilation (FGM), MRE, Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) and corporal punishment.

OPS codes: Education: SUD-17/E/111255 Protection: SUD-17/P-HR-RL/111357