After HAVOYOCO being signed the contract of Education in Emergency drought respond project on 18^th march 2017, it has started the selection of 50 targeted schools that affected by drought from the schools of Togdher, Sool and Sanaag regions. During the selection of schools the ministry of education of the three regions (Togdher, Sool and Sanaag) had the major part of identifying the targeted schools. Since HAVOYOCO was considering the more populated villages affected by the drought it was applied for the REO’s/DEO’s to mention the villages could appropriate to implement for this project.Selection of project targeted schools: ( identifying the 50 most drought affected schools )

After MoE regional/district offices facilitated the list of schools/villages and names/contact numbers of the principles the organization contacted to every school and informed that an assessment team will visit and ensure that the school is applicable to implement this project so that to prepare minimum 65 of new enrolment students (two catch-up classes) those will get three months of emergency in education if the school become selected. Then HAVOYOCO with part of MoE conducted an assessment of ensuring the most appropriate schools on the EiE project. The assessment team were visited every village/school in togdheer, sool and sanaag region and supervise/oversee the impact of the drought on schools or education. The team had meetings with CEC, village committees, parents, village elders and village religious leaders of every village/school those were asking questions including:-

• The estimated number of households affected by the drought in the village (number of households moved out/in the village)
• The total number of students that school has currently registered (boys & girls)
• The total number of students before the drought (boys & girls)
• The total number of students after the drought (indicating the number of drop out students)
• The total number of new enrolment students (in/out of class)
• The list of the teachers (m/f)

All these questions were putting down the school profile form and knowing of the impact of the drought and the potential of famine on children, the number of children (new enrolments ) in the village could reach and fill the number of EiE project allocated  (minimum 65 students in every school) and estimate how many catch-up classes could the school establish.

After that it was selected the 50 most affected drought schools in Togdher, Sool and Sanaag.

The project launching event (kick of meeting)

Before the implementation of this project, it was held an amazing launched event on 27^th April, 2017 at Ainabo District which was invited to all project stakeholders. The event were participated by the Governor of sool region, District Mayor of Ainabo, regional education officer, district education officer, parents, community Education Committees of Ainabo District that was held at the ministry of education in Ainabo District.

The regional coordinator of Togdheer, Soola and Sanaag of HAVOYOCO, Ibrahim Harir has officially opened the ceremony and welcomed to the honourable guests to participate this important ceremony and enlighten that this project is a part of UNICEF pre-famine humanitarian response which is going to mitigate the impact of drought and the potential of famine on children in Togdher, Sool and Sanaag were over 50 schools and 3,250 children are affected and needs to ensure that children remain in school and return to school it was also mentioned the objectives of the project and the major expected outcomes.

The governors welcomed this project and every program that alleviating the drought according to this situation and realized that the children are the most vulnerable people affected by the drought, the governor also encouraged to the parents benefit for this project and sends their children into the schools since their livestock has killed by the drought. The district Mayor and City Counsellor are also welcomed the project and agreed that this project has come at the appropriate time and mentioned that they will participate the organizing and mobilization of the community about how will be benefit for the project. The CEC’s are pledged at the stage to begin at the enrolling new students.

The parents and other parts of the community present at ceremony were all understood the messages that the government officials and CEC’s suggested and admired that they will be the first those will benefit for the project. Finally the event was released to the local broadcast (Somali TV’s and websites like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBbe4EMyTro) and messages reached a lot of people those did not present at event.

The CEC’s, Village elders and parents were begun door to door mobilization towards this emergency response project to targeted villages full of children and encouraged to send the children in to the schools, the teachers were present at school at any time to register the new enrolments and it was seeing a lot of parents sending their children into the schools.

Community engagement

A 50 targeted schools of Togdheer, Sool and Sanaag were provided to Emergency Cash Grants through Zaad/E-Dahab Services to school accounts which were managed by the CEC’s themselves. Before the grants were not been released, HAVOYOCO with the regional education authorities met community education committee for all the 50 schools to their locations to sat and prepare the school priorities that the project will cover. The EiE team were explained to CEC’s and Village committees the total amount of grants that school will receive for all three (3) months and will do the priorities identified and submitted by the committees at all. The priorities comes from committees but the organization ensures the utilization options were to ensure school children remain schools and attract the drop out students as well as out of school children. During the meeting with the support of HAVOYOCO, CEC’s of the 50 schools identified the needs and prioritized grant fund utilizations options. With the presence of HAVOYOCO, CEC’s calculated itemized cost of each priority in order to ensure that cash grants meet the needs of the school.

When the needs identified and sat with present of HAVOYOCO the priorities were divided into three months and every month allocated to a specific budget based on the total school grant ($ 4,875) this emergency cash grants to schools through trained CECs enabled communities to address those needs and identify the urgent issues keeping children out of school. In addition using the school and the school administration groups as an entry point, emergency cash grants was also encouraged parents to send children to schools for protection as well as education.

Provision of accessibility of clean water, hygiene and sanitation:

Since the drought has affected the accessibility of water, and the schools were complaining about water shortage and/or clean water, HAVOYOCO was considering that children access clean water at that time. The most crucial priority that every CECs school have identified was to get clean and enough water for the schools. The total students provided to safe drinking water were 15,787 in 50 schools. The hygiene and sanitation in schools were promoted as well for AWD/cholera prevention.

Provision of emergency teaching and learning:

HAVOYOCO has delivered and distributed the essential teaching and learning materials to every targeted school including school-in cartoon, recreational kits and replenishment materials. These supplies maintained and accessed to safe and protective learning environments. The supplies/kits were particularly essential for children in emergencies and those displaced by drought and reached children who were not able to access a formulized school environment. This activity has brought that the parents send their children to schools and the number of new enrolments upgraded. As HAVOYOCO seen this activity the most attractive achievements of the project, because during the distribution of supplies the parents were present at the distribution venue (classes) and looking their children getting education materials and were happy so seen that.

School Management Training for CEC’s, teachers and REO’s/DEO’s

HAVOYOCO conducted training for CECs, teachers and REO’s/DEO’s of all 50 targeted school in Togdheer, Sool and Sanaag on school water management that ensured broader lifesaving impact of education-related interventions. The training was focusing on :-

ü  The school grant management (Account management system)

ü  School conflict resolutions

ü  The cooperation of school activities (EiE project)

ü  Community awareness on education and participation of new enrolments.

ü  School hygiene and sanitation

ü  The role of providing a quality education to the children (students)

This is promoted ownership and active participation of the community in the provision of education, lied initial foundations for continuity and sustainability after emergency response.

The project visibility:

HAVOYOCO provision the project visibility by used different IEC materials including banners, stickers and media during the social mobilization campaigns to disseminate the project information and the social mobilization campaign activities.

Project monitoring:

HAVOYOCO undertook bi-weekly monitoring to the project target districts to ensure the proper utilization of education supplies after distribution to end users, that schools are open, Cash grants are used to the planned needs, collect new enrollments, and collect supporting documents of grant utilization, oversight body monitors to the Cash fund managers. UNICEF also conducted bi-weekly monitoring to ensure that HAVOYOCO is implementing the project as planned in the work plan.

 # of children accessing safe and protected learning environments

UNICEF supported to every school under EiE project to an Emergency Cash Grants which every school was already allocated and received total grant of ($ 4,875) for three months this emergency cash grants to schools through trained CECs enabled communities to address those needs and identify the urgent issues keeping children out of school. In addition using the school and the school administration groups as an entry point, emergency cash grants was also encouraged parents to send children to schools for protection as well as education.

Alternative basic education

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Institutional Strengthening

ü  The school grant management (Account management system)

ü  School conflict resolutions

ü  The cooperation of school activities (EiE project)

ü  Community awareness on education and participation of new enrolments.

ü  School hygiene and sanitation

ü  The role of providing a quality education to the children (students)

This is promoted ownership and active participation of the community in the provision of education, lied initial foundations for continuity and sustainability after emergency response.

• The raining problems– an autumn rains were started during the implementation period, floods were postponed the transportations and communication barriers also as well.
• Some of CECs members are illiterates and the EiE TOTs met problems during training.
• The communities of the visited areas are mostly nomadic, they are always moving from time to time and from place to place to get their livestock pasture and water.
• High schools needs compared to the cash grant of the schools.
• The number of out of school children targeted were low compared to the actual out of school children in schools
• Unpaid teachers

• Monitored performance of scholastic year and general condition of each school
• Monitoring CECs activities in each targeted project site.
• monitored number of teachers and head teachers per school  visiting
•  monitored number of TLS ABE schools and formal schools as well as the number of OOSC in target locations