Building Resilient School Communities in Somalia through Basic Education
To address the situation and needs on the ground. The project will have direct positive impact on education and can be addressed through this resilience project as per the below key implementation strategies and approaches:
Capacity building of teachers to improve attendance and learning outcome both at Primary level – covering topics like classroom pedagogy, literacy, numeracy, psychosocial support, extra classes, life skills, health and hygiene, measuring learning outcomes, etc.Model ECD centers, training for ECD facilitators, focusing on ECD, early grade reading and numeracy and positive discipline
Formation of CECs and training to strengthen community-based social safety nets that will support community outreach to the most marginalized and vulnerable children and household, capitation grants to support community-level resilience strengthening, role of CEC in individual child grant, advance girls education, enrolment and attendance of children in school – Health and hygiene, Financial management child protection messages, including Gender-based Violence and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, early marriages and pregnancy, social and cultural norms, strategies necessary for building the resilience of children, families and communities.
Sensitization and capacity building of Head teachers, Education officers on leadership, financial management, safe school, health and hygiene, monitoring, instructional leadership to assist teachers in the self-learning process, organize school-level professional development activities and to provide constructive feedback to classroom teachers and CECs
Building capacity for Child-to-Child clubs- covering issues like mobilization of community/families to send children to school, organization of various school events and peer to peer learning activities, attendance, life skill, girls’ empowerment initiatives, including training girls with the necessary skills to defend themselves against violence, empower adolescent girls to believe in their dignity and to foster their self-esteem with the goals of delaying marriage and preventing early pregnancy.
Partners
- Adventist Development and Relief Agency
- Books For Africa
- Counterpart International
- Diakonia, Sweden
- Education Development Center
- International Labour Organization
- National Endowment for Democracy
- State of Minnesota Department of Human Services
- UN Political Office for Somalia
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- United Nations Population Fund
- World Movement for Democracy