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Education and Protection

Strategic Objective: To co-create, support, and uplift the provision of inclusive education and protection services for vulnerable populations in both emergency and development settings.

Education and protection play a crucial role in humanitarian settings and in building community resilience, serving as both means of immediate relief and a foundation for long-term recovery and development. In times of crisis, access to quality education and reliable protection mechanisms can provide stability, hope, and a sense of normalcy for children and communities affected by conflict, displacement, or disaster. Education not only equips individuals with essential skills but also helps in rebuilding social structures, fostering peace, and supporting economic growth, while protection safeguards children, women, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups from harm, exploitation, and abuse. Recognizing their transformative power, organizations like OSDA prioritize educational and protection programs as part of their response to humanitarian needs and in building community, ensuring that learning opportunities and safe, dignified support are accessible to those most in need during emergencies and to strengthen long-term resilience.

Outcome

  • Increased access to inclusive, child-friendly, and quality education for children affected by emergencies
  • Increased community participation in educational management
  • Reduced protection risks and increased safeguarding of children, women, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups
  • Improved access to safe reporting, referral pathways, and dignified support services for survivors of abuse and exploitation

Approaches

  • Rehabilitation of WASH facilities for schools
  • Provision of scholastic materials for students
  • Create safe learning spaces for children
  • Community mobilization and awareness on safe learning environments, enrolment, and education opportunities during emergencies
  • Integrating and leveraging on technology
  • Promoting teacher capacity building on responding to emergency situations
  • Strengthening school management structure
  • Rehabilitation/renovation of existing affected school structures
  • Psycho-social support and protection
  • Child protection case management, family tracing and reunification
  • Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, including safe spaces and referral pathways
  • Promote integrated education models that are acceptable to communities
  • Disability-inclusive programming and support for persons with disabilities
  • Policy advocacy
  • Inclusivity, equity and equality of education programs
  • Legal awareness and access to justice for vulnerable groups
  • Twinning programs
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