Comprehensive Intervention for Flood Affected Areas in Punjab & Sindh - Access to Quality Education for Children

1. Progress Presentation May, 2012 CHILDREN, ESPECIALLY GIRLS AGED 2-12 HAVE ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION WITH IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT A Comprehensive Intervention for Flood Affected Areas in Punjab & Sindh

3. Date of operation: April, 2011 – June 30, 2013 Proposed duration of operation: 27-30months Beneficiaries: Children (6 months – 12 years): 75,000 (60% Girls) Head Teachers : 300 Teachers/Para/LHWs: 1200 / 1500 Mothers: 3000-4,500 SMCs: 600-900 / 3000 Community : Members: 335,000-500,000

5. Component I: School Rehabilitation Extending the already successful Dubai Cares, Whole School Improvement Program cluster approach in 3-4 districts of South Punjab/Upper Sindh reaching out to 75,000 children in 300 schools. Training support for life skills; Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)/ Emergencies and quality learning to teachers (1100-1400) and school council/SMC members (600-900) Catch Up Program: 1000 out of school recently drop out children to be provide with an accelerated second chance program for mainstreaming into primary/elementary schools - 20 schools provided WSIP support where children are to be mainstreamed

6. Progress Component I A. WSIP* in Emergencies – Early Recovery Districts Shikarpur, RYK and Muzaffargarh -75,000 *Whole School Improvement Program

7. Progress Component I A. WSIP in Emergencies – Early Recovery Districts Shikarpur, RYK and Muzaffargarh -75,000

8. School Construction Status • KotAdu - Muzaffargarh • Construction work in progress in 07 Schools • BOQs of remaining 13 schools in process • ZahirPir - RahimYar Khan • Construction work in progress in all 10 Schools • Shikarpur • BOQs of 20 schools in process • Tendering for each district separately • School Councils/SMCs trained for monitoring construction as per milestones

9. GGPS Absdullah Khan Zahirpir GGHSS Zahir Pir

10. List of Schools Selected For Construction in Shikarpur Contd.

11. List of Schools Selected For Construction ZahirPir - RahimYar Khan Contd.

12. List of Schools Selected For ConstructionKotAdu - Muzaffargarh

13. Phase I: School Identification, Survey & Orientation to the School Improvement Program Phase II: MOU for Adoption; People’s Mobilization & Changing Attitudes Phase III: School Development Planning, Implementation, Monitoring & Changing Practices Phase IV: Exit Strategy Partnerships & Systems for Sustainability ITA’s Whole School Improvement ProgramA 4 Phased Process: Challenge of Agents of Change From Within

14. Interventions for WSIP - All Manuals in Place • School Re-construction /Repair • Furniture • Learning materials : ECE to Primary School Kits • Para teachers where needed • Training: Leadership, Child Friendly Schools(CFS),Subject Content Areas , Child Rights & DRR • SMCs Strengthening & DRR • Reading Clubs • Health Clubs • Summer Schools • On-Site School Support by Education Promoters • Research & Tracking Learning through – ASER Pakistan

15. Learning Kits Distributed So Far • ECE Kit in 300 DC partner schools • Health Kit in 300 DC partner schools

16. I.B. Out of School Children- OOSC Catch Up Program: 1000 (1600) out of school recently drop out children to be provided an accelerated second chance program for mainstreaming into primary/ elementary schools. Program Design– chaloparhobarho(let’s read & grow) an accelerated catch up program for out of school children and in school children at risk of dropping out using the CAMAL Methodology District : Multan – JalalpurPirwala- 20 villages – 1000 District : Muzzafargarh = 200 children District : RahimYar Khan = 200 children District : Shikarpur = 200 children CPB taking place in government schools as mainstreaming is easy Launched on 8th Sept. Int’l Literacy Day100 teachers trained 20 flood affected schools JalalpurPirwala /Multan to be supported with a mini school improvement programs Girls = 600 Boys = 400 Duration = 6 months. (3 times testing incl. baseline) CPB has been pilot tested - January – July 2011 – a win -win program

17. Program Concept CPB- (let’s read and grow)

18. Goals of CPB Children will be able to: • Read alphabets, words, sentences and story (English and Urdu) • Comprehend word meaning, simple instructions, and simple texts. • Write correctly words, dictated sentences and self-constructed sentences • Recognize and understand numbers • Do, say and write addition, subtraction & addition problems • Understand and use tables to solve multiplication and division problems

19. Progress on OOSC – Catch Up Program • Orientation completed • Training to all personnel on Sept. 26-30, 2011 • Multan/ JalalpurPirwalaTehsil • Personnel in Position and survey completed • 823 Out of School Children studying in second time in 20 schools (351 male & 472 female) • Volunteers trained & imparted teaching to OOSC • Baseline, Mid Term & Final Term Assessment conducted • Muzaffargarh/KotAduTehsil • Village/school identified and survey completed • Classes for OOSC in progress • Baseline Assessment conducted Continue……

20. Progress on OOSC – Catch Up Program • RahimYar Khan: • Village/school identified and survey completed • Classes for 123 OOSC in progress • Baseline Assessment conducted • Shikarpur: • Village/school identified and survey completed • Classes for 185 OOSC (140 boys & 45 Girls) in progress • Baseline Assessment conducted

21. Component II: Back to School Kits for Children & Schools Targeting 3000 children in the flood affected districts of Punjab and Sindh with essential basic school and educational materials to enable quality learning where out of school children mainstreamed see note below Note: - 20 schools shifted to Jalalpur Pirwala flood affected schools- component 1 B - 3000 children in flood affected districts and schools in Shikarpur (1000) RYK (1000) and Muzzafargarh (1000) of Component 1 A

22. Progress on Component III-School Kits List of Items: Uniform (Girls, Boys) 70% girls and 30% boys School Shoes (Girls, Boys) School Bags with DC Signage Note Books (English, Urdu, Math) Stationary Pouch (Scale, Sharpener , Lead pencil, Eraser)

25. List of Schools where Students Kits distributedShikarpur (1000 School Kits)

26. List of Schools where Students Kits distributed ZahirPir - RahimYar Khan (1000 School Kits) Contd.

27. List of Schools where Students Kits distributed KotAdu – Muzaffargarh (1000 School Kits)

28. Component III: ECD Centres / SanjhaVerah* in affected districts Establishing 15 comprehensive early childhood development (ECD) community based centers catering to 3000 children (Ages: 06 months/2 year to 5 years) and their mothers. The interventions include support for maternal and child health and nutrition, learning stimulation, good parenting and strong social supports for care givers making a case for a stronger sustainable schooling cycle. Early Childhood Development is an all-embracing concept, embedding maternal and child health and nutrition, good parenting, strong social supports, and interaction within and outside the home from birth to eight (UNESCO, 2007). *Sanjha Verah is the title of ECD centers coined by local mothers and teachers.

29. Sanjha Vehrah (Our Courtyard/Seraiki ) A term decided by the beneficiaries themselves An abode of peace, protection, ownership, community participation, women empowerment and child development

30. Early Childhood Development (ECD) • Designed with Community (May - November 2011) • Mothers & Children (06 months - 05 years) • Dubai Cares funding for 01 year • Commencement January, 2012 – December, 2012 • Multi-sectoral :Health, Nutrition Protection, Governance & Education

31. ECD - Mother & Child Community Learning Centres (CLCs) • 02 SanjhaVerah at BastiMalook & BastiLasoori working in KotAdu (Muzaffargarh) • Localities identified in RahimYar Khan & Shikarpur Elements : • Governance – Mothers’ Committee – decision making body • Child’s Records/Birth, Immunisation Cards • Health & Growth milestone monitoring • Nutrition • Safe Play Areas • Rights based – gender empowerment • Tracking the child’s learning milestones • Early stimulation and readiness skills • Timely School Enrolment

32. Enrollment in SVs

33. Lady Health Workers (LHWs)Visit • In BastiMalook 11 visits have been conducted by the lady health worker. She has conducted health sessions on basic health topics and measured height and weight of the children as per their growth chart. • Height & weight (total 72 children have been screened out) • Diarrhea • Fever-primary health issues • General diseases • Pregnancy • Usage of first aid box and (have given some some medicine for the first aid box) Doctor’s Visit • Dr.HayatUllah from THQ- Civil Hospital KotAddu has visited the SV BastiMalook on dated 28th Feb,2012 for skin and general disease examination

34. MoU signed with phrsp-health Department for engaging LHWs & Health and Nutrition Supervisor

37. Session with Teachers & Mothers at SV BastiMalook-MZG 15 teachers and 7 LHWs have been trained under ECD-SV 30 mothers have been trained on primary health issues under ECD-SV

38. Activities done with Children at SV • Color Identification • Story telling • Identification of fruits in local language (Seraiki) • Rhymes and Lories (lullabies)e • Toys & Puppet exploration

39. Transforming lives-Right to Education • Shabana; a mother of four children was struggling for her life. She wanted to meet both ends by completing a course of Lady Health Worker-LHW; however, being a mother, the responsibility of taking care of her younger kid was one of the major hurdle to accomplish her goal .It was hard to manage home and study side by side in this crucial circumstances. This not only affected her children’s brought up but also her studies as well. Her performance was getting down day by day. • She was living in an area where no day care centers were available for the ease of struggling mothers. When she found no other solution; she decided to take her elder daughter out of school so that she could give a helping hand in household chores and looking after her siblings. As the time passed she realized that her decision was not right. In her struggle she was ignoring her children’s rights like right to education particularly of her daughter. On the other hand, her result was not as satisfactory as she was expecting.

40. One day one of her friend came to her. She told Shabana that Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi in collaboration with Dubai cares is opening a center named “SANJAH VERAH”, in our locality Basti Malook, where early years children would learn and develop their skills. Sanjah Verah aims at working for Early Childhood Development (ECD). • After listening all about Sajah Verah, Shabana’s eyes were twinkling with joy. This solved most of her problems. She got her young son admitted to the Sanjha Wehra and also enrolled her daughter back to the school. This decision made her life easy and she saw an astounding improvement reflected in the Jan-March 2012 term work with 80% marks. • This Sanjha Wehra not only brought comfort to Shabana’s life but also hundreds of women are getting benefits from SVs. She expressed her feelings of joy by saying, “These centers are 0special gifts for those women like me in rural areas who cannot afford much but desire to improve themselves and their family.”

41. Colours come in Life……… • My name is Nafeesa. I belong to khar family. I live in “laasoori” – a nearby village of tehsil Kot Addu. Due to family and local cultural restrictions, I was not allowed to go out and seek education. But I did not let my desire to get education die, so I did matric and intermediate as a private candidate. Our family does not support education for girls rather women are supposed to be confined to four-walls. So was my destiny. After intermediate I could not continue my further studies and got married. • But thank God, my husband has been quite supportive. When he realized my eagerness for education, he let me do my graduation as private candidate. But the subsequent birth of my two sons, encumbered me with so much domestic responsibilities that the dream for further education seemed to me a far cry. • One such day, I heard an announcement about a community fare from a nearby mosque I went there with least interest. What a great number of women there was! All that knowledge and information came to me, was astonishing to me; some institutions with the help of Government is going to establish a center where the children from 6 months to 4 years would be looked after by trained teachers, this information resurrected my desire for education, while coming to home, I decided to start my studies again.

42. Contd… • I shared it with my husband, he was bit hesitant but I convinced him that our children would properly be looked after by trained teachers, and more over the women of our own area would be trained and employed by ITA & DC in the centre. I was very enthusiastic as my dreams were about to come true. I decided to continue my studies and get my children admitted in the centre. • I took much information about it from the teachers of “Saanjha Vehra”, and volunteered myself to teach and support children in the evening session in order to be a dynamic part of this progressive caravan. • Now I am at ease to start my B.Ed program with zeal and zest……….. • Photographs will be added as soon as I receive from field team

43. Organogram District for WSIP/OOSC &ECD

44. Organogram for ECD – CLC Program • 6 core staff supported by • Dist. Coordinator & Trainer & Doctor • Provincial & District Technical Steering Group

45. DC Program Team – Provincial Office OOSC Program & WSIP to end in February 2012- Multan

46. DC Program Team – Field Offices

47. DC Program Team – Field Offices

48. Shikarpur WSIP List (105 w.20) Contd.

49. Shikarpur WSIP List (105 w.20) Contd.

50. Shikarpur WSIP List (105 w.20) Contd.