Integrated lifesaving and quality education including child protection and GBV prevention and response in Pibor County, Jonglei State The project targets 6,030 children (2,894 girls and 3,136 boys) in 8 selected schools including 243 persons with disabilities, 42 teachers (26 men, 16 women), 88 PTAs/SMC (52 men, 36 women), 45 Community Education committee and Education officials (25 Men and 20 Women) and 25 (all women) frontline community social workers (and staff trained on PSS and case management to be implemented in Pibor, Leukongole and Gumuruk Payams of Pibor County in Jonglei State. Additionally, the indirect beneficiaries of this project are the population who are within Pibor County. The estimated indirect beneficiaries are 32,078 people (women-8,291, men-6,747, girls-8,316, and boys-8,724).
The target activities involves rehabilitation of 8 Temporary Learning Spaces (TLS) with gender/disability sensitive WASH facilities in each of the 8 target schools. The project will provide essential education supplies for pupils. Capacity building in form of teacher training to improve learning outcomes on child safeguarding, psychosocial first aid (PFA) and PSS. The Project will promote and advocate for quota representation for women in all community structures. The project will provide education on MHM to adolescent girls. Life skills training will include discussions on gender-based violence (GBV) and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA) and personal hygiene with greater emphasis on hand-washing including prevention of Covid-19 disease.
The project will utilize responsive, empathic, transparent and consistent messaging in local language of the Murle with key Child Protection, GBV and Covid-19 messages. Community mobilization will be in line with WHO/MoH guidance on community engagement so as to prevent community transmission of Covid-19 Pandemic. The project will provide age appropriate focused and non-focused Psycho-social support including recreational activities to 6,030 pupils (2,894 girls and 3,136 boys) and their caregivers (caregivers support sessions and home visitations). Case management including identification, support and referral of 300 children with protection concerns for appropriate support and Child Protection referral pathways at community level will be strengthened. GBV/ Child protection outreach and awareness raising sessions through Community Based Protection Mechanism (CBPM) structures will be conducted in the form of community meetings observing social distancing according to WHO/MoH guidelines. Capacity building of frontline actors and community -based structures on CP approaches and Child Protection in Emergency (CPiE) is also considered in the project benefiting a total 95 community resource persons. Girls will be trained in using local fabrics to make reusable sanitary pads for menstrual hygiene and face-mask to prevent against Covid-19 pandemic.
Community awareness raising activities targeting pupils, teachers and Parent Teachers Association (PTA)/SMC) members will be conducted to challenge cultural practices, behaviors and social norms that constitute GBV or increase risk of GBV (e.g. preferential treatment of boys child marriages gender-based exclusion from education, particularly for adolescent girls). Education stakeholders capacity training on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) and Psychological First Aid (PFA) and accountability mechanism to monitor and report SEA and other GBV in the school environment and also support individual and group psycho social and counseling support including to survivors to remain in or return to school after receiving GBV response services. Safety audits and analysis of data on the routes and in the schools to ensure safety for all students particularly girls and GBV referral pathway when established it will be published on Information Education and Communication (IEC) materials and community-based Behavior Change Communication (BCC) will conducted through community awareness sessions in line with WHO / Health Cluster guidance on Covid-19 disease prevention,