Education Cluster Meeting Agenda. Directorate of Education, Sulaymaniyah Wednesday 28th of December 2016, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Venue: REACH office 1. Introduction and welcome 5m. 2. Review of previous action points 15m. 3. NEEDS – a. Update on the response to Musil operation and the preparation to Chamchamal camp. 5 m b. Update on Surdash camp, (Gaps and Needs) relocating IDP families, and the response of the Education partners. 10m c. IDP school needs in Suli 10 m. d. Refugee school’s needs (Renovation of Qaladiza School, status of new schools, textbooks). 5 m. e. Reporting (Monthly report, activity info, and JCCC report). 5m f. Update on Education Working Group in Garmian (The response of MoE). 5m 4. RESPONSE – Refugee schools. 5m IDP schools.5m 5. GAPS – a. Challenges in IDPs camps and non-camps schools (lack of space in Ashti camp school) 10m b. Challenges in Refugee camp and non-camps schools. 10m Education Cluster Meeting Minutes 1 1. Introduction and welcome # Agenda Items Discussion Action Point \ Decision 1 Introduction and welcome Introduction 2. Review of previous action points # Agenda Items Discussion Action Point \ Decision 1 Lack of teaching staff in Qoratu camp MoE to follow up on the issue and come up with MoE to visit the school and allocate a lecturers to solve the solution. lack of teaching staff. MoE Visited the School and the issue is solved. 2 Update on Chamchamal and Surdash camp According to the last meeting with the Minister of OCHA to update on the situation. MoDM, they announced that Suli to host the IDPs from Mosul is in plan B. 3 Providing Buses to transport the Syrian UNICEF and UPP allocated 48 buses to transport the UNICEF to visit the schools and follow up with the refugee students refugee students, but we still facing some issues in transportation company, to solve the gaps. Kobani UNICEF visited the schools and increased the number of Buses to 44. Now 50 buses are working on transporting the Syrian refugee students and Teachers. 4 The issue of shortage in textbooks UNICEF printed the textbooks and now the UNICEF waiting the official letter request from the textbooks are in GDoE of Suli’s warehouse. principals of refugees schools. UNICEF to follow up 5 Teacher incentives IRC have a plan to cover the incentive of the UNICEF to provide the data of Refugee school teachers to teachers from Feb 2017. IRC. The data is provided 6 The issue of Chamchamal and Said Sadiq The host community are preventing the DoE to open DoE of Suli to follow up with JCC and Suli governorate refugee schools a school to Syrian refugees in both mentioned locations DoE followed up the issue of Said Sadiq is solved, but opening a school in Chamchamal still pending 7 The issue of the school in Barzanga camp In Barzanga the school is outside of the camps and The sub-cluster and MoE to follow up with JCC to allocate it is 4 KM away from the camp and MoE suggested a space. to find a space inside the camp, because they have The sub-cluster and MoE had a discussion with JCC, and JCC only about 50 students. raised the point with Suli governorate but they refused to allocate a space, MoE still follow up on that. Education Cluster Meeting Minutes 2 8 Education cluster to attend the meetings of Some points were raised during the meeting of Education cluster to attend the meetings of Health and Health and Protection cluster Protection and Health cluster, OCHA suggested to Protection cluster to give updates on some pending points attend both meetings to follow up. The focal point of Education Sub-cluster attended the meeting of protection cluster, and planning to attend the health cluster meeting in the next meeting. 3. NEEDS: # Agenda Items Discussion Action Point \ Decision A Mosul response Updating the cluster partners about the Mosul Chamchamal camp: response and the issue of Mosul response in Suli. The outcome of the discussion regarding Chamchamal camp: Suli will be in plan B for Mosul response plan, it had been suggested to reduce the capacity of the camp from 5,000 plots to 2,500 plots, and the minister agreed on that request. In a brief they asked a support from UN agencies to construct Chamchamal camp with capacity 2,500 plots, and MoDM will only provide tents, and the camp will remain as a plan B to relocate IDPs from Mosul. B Camps needs: Fencing the school in Surash camp, The working fencing the school in Surdash camp stopped Surdash, Repairing the tents in Qoratu camp because it because the governor announced that Suli to host the IDPs from Qorato, affected due to high winds. Mosul is in plan B. Tazade , UNICEF repaired 10 tents in Qoratu camp. Fencing both schools in Tazade camp. Alwand 2 UNICEF fanced the schools in Tazade camp. Providing more tents to the school in Al-Wand 2 to UNICEF provided four tents to the school in Al-Wand2 camp. solve the issue of lack of space. C IDP school’s needs. - Barznja School Using some prefabs as a school - MOE visited the camp and recommended to move the students classroom. from the school building to some prefabs inside the camp. - JCC responded on the request of the cluster and they mentioned that we cannot use the prefabs as school classrooms, and they may move IDPs from another camps to Barznja camp. JCC refused to provide 8 tenets for school. - Acton point: OCHA to discuss with JCC about this issue. - Lack of chairs in IDP schools Partners to follow up on that issue and update the cluster next meeting. Education Cluster Meeting Minutes 3 D Refugee school’s Bazian and Bainjan schools need health awareness Mercy Corps will start health awareness raising in Bazian needs. raising E Reporting - OCHA change the date of JCC reporting. Regarding the monthly report, as agreed in the last ICCG meeting the submission of monthly inputs to JCCC is 5th of every month. 4. RESPONSE # Agenda Items Discussion Action Point \ Decision 1 UNICEF: The transportation of the Syrian refugee students are still ongoing, UNICEF supporting 44 buses to transport the 1180 refugee students in 9 schools in Suli. Providing the incentive of 175 Syrian refugee teachers and 36 non-teaching staff in nine Syrian refugee schools. Providing 4 tents with dimension 72 m2 and concreate the base in Al-Wand2 camp school in Khanaqin, to accommodate all children and solve the issue of lack of space. Fencing the both schools in Tazade camp in Garmian with providing the gates to both schools. The process of repairing 7,950 student desks is still ongoing. Five of the 6 unfinished schools finished by UNICEF and handed over to DoE now two schools are using by refugees and 3 schools are using by IDPs plus the host community students. Providing the stationeries to 2,960 students in IDP non-camp schools. Providing the transportation for 150 IDP teachers to solve the issue of lack in teaching staff in IDP camps, the total number of beneficiaries are 5,471 IDP students in 7 camp schools. After the heavy rain and flooding Arbat camp school, UNICEF education section by coordination with WASH section our WASH IP Qandil cleaned the school. UNICEF distributed winterization materials (Raincoats, Fire Extinguisher and Kerosene Heater) to Refugee schools in Suli. UNICEF provided 1,267 Uniform clothes for 5 Syrian Refugee schools. 2 UNHCR : Providing Kerosene for 72 IDP schools in Khanaqin and Garmian, 500 Ltr for each school in camps and non-camp area. 3 UNESCO: Provided 8 caravans to Ta'ayesh secondary school for boys in Ashiti camp to replace the tents. 4 UPP: - UPP buses brought 210 children to Kobani School 149 teenagers (87 boys + 62 girls, divided in 4 groups) have attended the non-formal education activities in UPP/Al Mesalla YFS in Arbat Refugee Camp (2 shifts each afternoon) 383 students (161 boys + 222 girls) in Amouda School and 59 students (24 boys + 35 girls) in Berkhwedan school, 2 hours for four classes every morning, have attended the non-formal education activities in UPP/Al Mesalla directly in their schoolclasses Education Cluster Meeting Minutes 4 On 6th, 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th December 57 teachers from Berkhwedan, Amouda 1 and 2 Schools, 44 from Kobani, Gri Spi and Gri Spi 2 and 8 UPP/Al Mesalla staff from Arbat Refugee Camp YFS attended a PSS training organized by UPP 5 REACH: Total number of beneficiaries 812 had participated in Bazian , Banjan and Rapareen community centers from different target groups refugee, IDP and host community for psychosocial support , catch up training, languages , sport activities for social cohesion and improving their skills, reintegration and rehabilitation, this term host community participants was more than before because host community schools was closed but refugee and IDP schools were opened : PSS activities for children and youth for social cohesion between different groups IDP, refugee and host community. Activities for children in child friendly spaces in Bazian and Bainjan. Computer training in community centers. Art activity. Music training. Sport activities (ping pong and tennis). English training from different target groups. IDP students participated in catch up and study support in Bazian community center. Sorani (Kurdish) training. Children participated in kindergarten activities in3 community center. Children participated in Arabic language training. Case management 6 QANDIL: 1- Preparation for the 4th PTA meeting until the second week of December 4th PTA meeting took place in Grespi intermediate school and Kobani basic school on December 7th, Sarikany basic school and Afrin basic school on December 8th and Amooda primary & secondary school on December 15th.