Mid-Year Review of the Humanitarian Response Plan for Yemen 2012

3.2.2 EDUCATION

Summary of updated cluster response plan

Cluster lead agency	UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN’S FUND
Cluster member organizations	Save the Children International, CHF, Care International, WFP, ADRA
Number of projects	9
Cluster objectives	Provide child-friendly and safe education environment. Provide teachers (female and male) with necessary skills. Ensure preparedness plan is in place. Cluster monitors and reacts to ongoing emergencies. Education Management Information System (EMIS) established. Provide children with uniforms, school bags and stationary. Capacity-building for public, private and community partnerships.
Funds required	Original: $12,276,958 Revised at mid-year: $20,100,555
Funds required per priority level	Life Saving: $3,447,195 Time Critical: $16,653,360
Funding to date	$1,631,360 (8% of revised requirements)
Contact information	[e-mail]

Categories and disaggregated numbers of affected population and beneficiaries

Category of people in need	Number of people in need			Number of targeted beneficiaries			Number of people covered
	Total__Female'>Female	Male	Total	Female	Male	Total	Female	Male	Total
Children facing challenge in accessing education.	550,000	550,000	1,100,000	400,000	400,000	800,000	50,000	70,000	120,000
Children at risk to dropout of schooling.	350,000	350,000	700,000	300,000	300,000	600,000	300,000	380,000	680,000
Totals	900,000	900,000	1,800,000	700,000	700,000	1,400,000	350,000	450,000	800,000

The Education Cluster continues providing assistance in the second half of 2012 in four priority areas: providing child friendly and safe education environment; providing teachers (female and male) with necessary skills; ensuring the preparedness plan is in place; and monitoring and reacting to changes and new emergencies. A total of 1,400,000 children between six and 14 years, and 10,000 teachers will benefit from funding received to projects in the YHRP.

Cluster partners are looking for sustainable and long-term solutions given the nature of the crisis and uncertainties around resolving the conflict. Some of the main challenges that could affect the work of the Cluster are as follows:

Incidence of armed conflict and civil unrest in areas that have been so far unaffected.

Disease outbreaks.

Mass population displacement due to conflict in some areas, man-made and natural disasters.

Poverty and rise in the cost of living which will impact on the level of implementation.

Increased influx of refugees.

The Education Cluster has maintained close collaboration with other clusters, in particular Protection and WASH, as well as government counterparts. These Clusters are critical and key components in a rights-based access to learning and education. The combination of these Clusters has proven to be useful. For example, this was evident in Taizz where the Education and Protection Clusters have been merged. Also, assessments have been undertaken jointly by these Clusters. The Education Cluster will ensure that this close collaboration is maintained, inter alia, through the sharing of information, minutes of meetings, assessment reports, accountability frameworks and active participation in cluster meetings. The Education Cluster will continue advocating towards donors to support this multi-sectoral/multi-cluster approach.

The Education Cluster will soon be having a full-time Cluster Coordinator, supporting Cluster coordination activities, including information management and analysis. The coordinator will update the initial analysis containing gender disaggregated data for the revision by the technical committee of the Cluster. The committee will review this data on a quarterly basis to ensure that Cluster activities are achieving the desired outcomes and meeting Cluster objectives. The Cluster is also working on the decentralization of its coordination activities through establishing sub-clusters at the provincial and regional level.

Most Cluster projects contain IM components including rapid assessments to keep Cluster partners up-to-date based on solid evidence and to inform changes in programming. Changes in the context or programme bottlenecks will both inform such changes and Cluster projects will be amended accordingly.

Table of mid-year monitoring vs. objectives

Outcomes with corresponding targets	Outputs with corresponding targets	Indicators with corresponding targets and baseline	Achieved as mid-year
Cluster objective 1: Provide child-friendly and safe education environment.
Ensure access to child-friendly learning environment for 820,000affected school-aged children.	820,000 children have access to: child-friendly learning space, WASH facilities, psycho-social support and mine risk awareness.	Number of children having access to child-friendly learning environment.	240,000 accessed child-friendly learning environment.
Cluster objective 2: Provide teachers (female and male) with necessary skills.
80% of 12,000 teachers’ skills enhanced to enable delivery of quality education and psycho-social support.	10,000 primary teachers acquire new skills.	Number of teachers that acquire improved teaching skills.	6,000 teachers (50%) have seen their skills improved.
Cluster objective 3: Ensure preparedness plan is in place.
Ministry of Education (MoE) Departments of Education and schools in conflict-affected areas have planning and management capacity to carry out emergency education initiatives.	Departments working in emergency education acquire enhanced skills for better planning for emergency.	Number of people with enhanced knowledge and skills on minimum international standards on emergency education.	50 MoE officials and staff trained on minimum international standards on education in emergency.
Cluster objective 4: Cluster monitors and reacts to ongoing emergencies.
Cluster partners actively contribute to the cluster objectives and gaps reduced.	90% of affected children’s emergency education is not interrupted.	Number of affected children whose education is ensured and whose access to school has not been interrupted.	800,000 children Aden, Lahaj, Sana’a, Sa’ada and Hajjah were covered with adequate support to ensure children have access and can stay in school.
Cluster objective 5: Education Management Information System (EMIS) established.
Proper data collection and management system for education in conflict-affected areas.	100% of the education needs in all affected populations was assessed in all areas.	Percentage of affected children assessed.	Estimated 60% of areas and affected population assessed.
Cluster objective 6: Provide children with uniforms, school bags and stationary.
Targeted boys and girls receive essential learning materials and uniforms.	80,000-100,000 boys and girls provided with necessary school items and continue to access schools.	Number and percentage of affected children provided with essential learning materials.	800,000 (100%) received essential learning materials but without uniforms.
Cluster objective 7: Capacity-building for public, private and community partnerships.
MoE Departments of Education and schools in conflict-affected areas have planning and management capacity to carry out emergency education initiatives.	Cluster equipped with a dedicated Cluster Coordinator and an Information Manager.	Cluster Coordinator and Information Manager on board.	No Cluster Coordinator mid-year, but for second half of 2012 one is in place. Cluster IM staff arrived.