Quality and access to education
SCS seeks to ensure children’s right to access quality, inclusive and protective education in the MENA region.
It will work through the five dimensions of change, with actions seeking to change school policies and practice, ensuring that child participation structures are established, focusing on inclusive education work and increasing the participation of parents and caregivers.
The regional work will target mainly Palestinian and Iraqi refugee children.
Concerning Palestinian refugee children, SCS will support UNRWA in creating a protection mechanism within its school system as well increasing the quality of education in UNRWA schools. SCS will address the challenges facing the UNRWA education system from the regional perspective, starting with Lebanon and oPt and moving on to Syria and Jordan.
With regards to Iraqi refugee children, Save the Children Alliance has declared the Iraq response a priority in the region and has assigned SCUS as lead agency. SCUS has developed an education programme framework, ‘Ta’aleem’, for Iraqi refugee children in the region that has been accepted as part of SC global ‘Rewrite the future’ initiative. It is currently being implemented in Jordan by SCUS and Lebanon by SCS, and might expand to Syria and Egypt. In light of this regional Alliance cooperation and the joint funding agreements, the project has been considered a regional education project and is being run by the regional team in close cooperation with relevant country offices.
In addition to the above, the possibilities of expanding country-specific activities implemented in oPt, Lebanon and Yemen to other countries of the region will be studied during the period.
Save the Children Sweden added value
SCS will contribute to the changes through various elements including, enhancing regional learning between the different countries and project, with an emphasis on the capacity of different actors to network, building the capacities of stakeholders, particularly in the area of Physical and Humiliating Punishment and fostering cross-cutting initiatives between protection and education.