Annual Report 2020 Mongolia SURVIVE, LEARN AND BE PROTECTED ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA | 1 CONTENTS Foreword 4 Introduction to Save the children 6 Education Program 8 Child Protection Program 22 Child Protection Resource Centre 32 Child Rights Governance Program 36 Child Poverty Program 40 Health Program 48 Humanitarian Program 54 Financial Report 62 Partners and Supporters 66 2 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA | 3 FOREWORD Dear friends, colleagues, and partners, 2020 was a year of achievements by Save the Children Japan’s Mongolia Country Programme (thus, Save the Children in Mongolia). Despite the numerous challenges caused by the global pandemic, our organization managed to execute our strategy and action plans and made tangible progress towards improving the lives of Mongolian children. Save the Children began implementing two new projects in 2020, one to support democracy education and the other to teach entrepreneurship and business skills to rural youth and adolescents. As well, our inclusive education project entered its third year, and our 2018-22 project to strengthen the child protection system in Mongolia continued its Stage II roll out. We completed the Child Rights Situation Analysis 2020, a wide-ranging overview of the achievements and challenges of implementing child rights in Mongolia. We also conducted a rapid needs assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on households and shared its findings widely with other agencies and the public. Subsequently, a series of booklets were published on preventing and mitigating the adverse effects of the pandemic restrictions on children. To support continuing education, we prepared a manual for parents of children due to start school in the next academic year and distributed it to all 21 aimags (provinces) and all districts of the capital, Ulaanbaatar. We are pleased to outline our activities and their results in this year’s Annual Report and hope you will enjoy learning more about us. On behalf of all the staff of Save the Children in Mongolia, I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the donors whose generosity enables us to deliver our Mongolia program, and to the organizations, individuals and children who have collaborated with us and shared their invaluable expertise and insight in the past year. I believe that the results and best practices generated by Save the Children in Mongolia and our partners will continue to contribute to the protection and promotion of child rights in our country. Bayan-Altai Luvsandorj A Memorandum of Understanding was signed to provide personal skills and entrepreneurship education to youth Country Manager and Representative, Save the Children Japan in Mongolia in rural Mongolia. (From the right: Ganbayar Ganbold, Deputy Minister of Education, Culture, and Science, Bayan-Altai Luvsandorj, Country Manager and Representative, Save the Children Japan’s Mongolia Country Programme) July 2, 2020 4 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA | 5 OUR VISION: WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS Our vision is a world in which every child THE FOLLOWING THREE INTRODUCTION TO attains the right to survival, protection, BREAKTHROUGHS: SAVE THE CHILDREN Established in the UK in development and participation OUR MISSION: SURVIVE No child dies from Save the Children is a worldwide, non-religious, non- 1919 Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way preventable causes before political, independent children’s rights organization the world treats children and to achieve immediate their fifth birthday established in 1919. Save the Children supports child and lasting change in their lives protection through the implementation of long- term development policies during socio-political LEARN changes and emergencies and ensures comprehensive THEMATIC PROGRAM AREAS OF SAVE THE CHILDREN: All children learn from a implementation of child rights. • Education quality basic education We save children’s lives, we fight for their rights, and now in • Child Protection we help them to develop their full potential. Save the • Child Rights Governance BE PROTECTED • Child Poverty Children works to build a responsible society where Violence against children is • Health children’s voices are heard, their contribution is 120 no longer tolerated enabled, and significance is attached to their opinions in • Humanitarian Assistance making decisions relevant to their lives. countries During the last 100 years, Save the Children has WHERE WE WORK expanded and now operates in over 120 countries. OUR 2020 FUNDING WAS Save the Children’s Mongolia Program was launched in 1994 and operated with management support from USD 1,224,215 AND WE Save the Children UK from 1994-2009 and from Save DIRECTLY REACHED Zavkhan the Children Japan since 2009. It aims to create long- in Mongolia since Dornod Khovd Arkhangai term sustainable changes in the lives of children while Ulaanbaatar seeking substantial and systemic solutions to emerging Govisumber Sukhbaatar challenges. 1994 Uvurkhangai 151,000 CHILDREN THROUGH OUR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS. 6 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA | 7 EDUCATION The project team visited the target schools in Jargalant soum, Khovd aimag. November 10, 2020 EDUCATION PROGRAM In 2020, the Education Program successfully completed the second phase of the project Promoting Inclusive Education for Every Last Child in Mongolia and moved into the third and last phase of the project. The project expanded its partnership with decision-makers in the education sector and with other organizations and development partners working in the inclusive education area and disseminated the project results and experiences to them. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mongolia imposed strict lockdowns across the country and shut down schools and kindergartens for almost eight months in 2020. During this challenging period, Save the Children and UNICEF jointly conducted the management and coordination of the Education Cluster which focused on planning and carrying out response actions mainly addressing access to education during the prolonged school closures. 8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA | 9 EDUCATION KEY PROJECT OUTCOMES In 2020, the Education Program supported parents, teachers and staff members PROMOTING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION of secondary schools and Life-long Education Centres (LLEC) in the target local areas through its inclusive education project. We organized module trainings for FOR EVERY LAST CHILD IN MONGOLIA the target individuals and increased the number of project beneficiaries. We also disseminated the project’s results and best practices across the country. Funded by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this project is being implemented in three districts of Ulaanbaatar and Uvurkhangai and Khovd aimags between 2018 and 2021. THESE INCLUDED: Experience sharing training was organized in Khovd aimag. November 10, 2020 OUTCOME 1 OUTCOME 2 Save the Children, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Science, organized a national workshop on “Inclusive Education” in October 2020 in Ulaanbaatar. 660 17 These 50 teacher trainers subsequently conducted 17 trainers from target LLECs attended professional development training for more than 660 specialized workshops to build their capacity secondary school and 76 LLEC teachers. to teach mixed groups of special needs children. 50 We enrolled 50 primary grade teachers and teaching 87 managers of target secondary schools in inclusive These trainers then organized training for education training-of-trainers to develop their skills another 87 teachers to develop their technical and knowledge of working with children with special knowledge and skills for working with children educational needs so that they could train other teachers. with special needs. 10 | ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA ANNUAL REPORT 2020 MONGOLIA | 11 EDUCATION 12 OUTCOME 3 12 students who attended the primary education We trained 70 trainers from equivalent training program taught by target LLECs target schools and LLECs were able to enroll in secondary schools in the 70 to address negative public 2020-2021 school year. perceptions and increase awareness of inclusive education. 47 673 teachers participated “Differently Different-2” campaign reached 3.5 million people online and spread the culture of inclusive education. We carried out surveys in 2019-20 to detect in the training as well as out-of-school children in the project target 673 activities to improve parental aimags (provinces) and found 492 children. 295 of and public perceptions and them were enrolled in schools or LLECs, and we understanding of inclusive supported the delivery of home-based education education using advocacy We produced a social media We organized a public services for another 47 out-of-school children. methodology. campaign “Differently Different-2” advocacy campaign through 2,400 to create positive images of inclusive 9 news media to support education and improve public inclusive education and perceptions and the attitudes of prepared TV (2), radio (2), With the Mongolian Institute parents, teachers and staff on the newspaper (9) and a number of A national workshop on using the database of children learning for Educational Research, we subject. The campaign’s social media online interviews and articles at LLECs was attended by the specialists of LLECs in 21 aimags co-developed a set of video page received a total of 3,560,000 targeted to parents, the public, and 9 districts