1. National Education Cluster meeting
Monday 20th February 2016
Skype – KatyNoble.HST
Skype – mugabi-fred
Skype – Abdirisak09
Skype – Samirizzat
Skype – ashihan

2. Introduction from both MoE
Criteria?

3. Previous Meeting Action Points
Responsible
Status
UNHCR to share all their refugee (including out-of-school) data with the Cluster.
UNHCR
Not yet received.
UNESCO, UNICEF & UNHCR to meet with MoE KRG regarding criteria for payment of transportation incentives.
UNICEF & MoE KRG
MoE KRG to provide criteria for Principal selection and UNICEF can proceed.
UNICEF Education section to share detailed assessment report as soon as it’s finalised
UNICEF
UNICEF will share ASAP.
Partners to share the reports of any education assessment conducted to the cluster
Partners
Some partners have shared, but others are encouraged to do the same!
UNICEF to convene a meeting with West Mosul partners to map out what financial / in-kind support is available.
Meetings held and funding/agreements are being finalised.
Cluster to create a Schools Database for partner reporting
IM Team
OCHA have agreed to add schools to AI so we’re finalizing this, so no School Database needed!

4. Update from MoE
To support partners’ implementation and bottlenecks, MoE will communicate the official MoE/DoE Focal Points for all Ninewa locations to the Cluster, in 2 days time (Hassan Sham & surroundings; Hamman Al Aliel; Qayyarah & surroundings; Nargizila; etc)
MoE given authorization for partners to set up formal schooling in camps (inc. Hammam al Aliel), they will provide the teachers whenever possible.
If no formal teachers available within the camp, then the MoE will do rapid teacher training to graduates, and they can deliver formal curriculum.
Returnees focus from April

5. West Mosul
Offence started yesterday, but so far no data from OCHA/DTM on displacements.
Cluster Coordinators will attend West Mosul coordination meeting on Tuesday afternoon – we’ll send updates after.
West Mosul Camp mapping:
Hasan Sham U2 = NRC (or Bartella if it opens before HS U2)
Chamakor = NRC Salamiya = Human Appeal
Hammam Al Alil = SCI - Haj Ali extension = SCI
Qayyarah extension = SCI Jeddah extension = SCI
- Hasan Sham M2 extension = INTERSOS
Returnees focus from April

6. West Mosul Are these partners’ funding, staff
& supplies ready so that TLS tents
can be put down as soon as IDPs arrive?

7. East Mosul
Joint planning meeting with Education and CP partners meeting on Wednesday 22nd at 1pm, SCI Erbil
Assessments – partners to please continue sharing assessments with the Cluster.
Rapid EiE Kobo Assessment available in Arabic for all partners to use. Contact us for Log-in details!
Access issues – partners to please flag their issues to CMCoord team.
Following a reassessment of situation in East Mosul, UN missions will resume.
Returnees focus from April

8. UXO / Explosive Hazard Clearance
Many schools in newly-retaken areas have explosive hazard concerns, either because they haven’t been cleared at all or their clearance standard was low.
But the good news is that it seems that ISF EOD (clearance teams) efforts are ramping up!
For a few of the schools we flagged to UNMAS, when their teams arrived to remove UXO, the ISF had been the previous day to respond 
Returnees focus from April

9. How to Report UXO/EH concerns
If your teams have concerns about a school in terms of mine clearance, please /call/SMS the Education Cluster ASAP with the following reporting information:
Name of school
Photo of the school name sign/nameboard
Photo of the front of school building
GPS location
School principal or teacher phone number
Description of type of threat/concern
Photograph of the concerning issue (if safe/possible)

10. Mine Risk Education
MRE is an essential element of any EiE programming in newly retaken areas!
Partners need to factor MRE costs into your budgets!
Remember it can only be delivered by accredited Mine Action organisations, not by your own agency…
Education partners to contact Mine Action Sub-Cluster directly to get connected with the appropriate accredited MRE agency (Sara RIJAVEC
Please ask Cluster if you want repeat of frontline-worker mine risk training to take place like last September
Returnees focus from April

11. Attacks on schools
The Cluster is tracking attacks on schools, esp. in East Mosul.
We’ve seen an acceleration of reported attacks since 24th January (when ISF took full control of East Mosul).
Not enough evidence on whether:
Intentional vs indiscriminate rockets
Credible vs rumours (
Partners to report to the Cluster any information they hear about incidents in schools. Cluster then passes this onto MRM, who then check validity of reports by checking on the ground (and have mandate to raise issues up to UN Security Council level)
Partners encouraged to be careful with messaging on these incidents (avoid “schools are being targeted”, “schools are under attack”)
Returnees focus from April

12. Education after ISIL Conference
NOGAV
WRO
DAD
Chavin
Organisation

13. Education after ISIL Conference
The DoE Ninewa’s ‘With Education We Create Hope’ conference was successfully held on Saturday!
The Minister of Education, Deputy Minister and many other government representatives re-affirmed their commitment to improving education in post-ISIL Ninewa.
Researchers presented different research findings and recommendations to form the starting point for planning processes.
Returnees focus from April

14. Objective of the project
Access to inclusive quality “primary and secondary education” for IDPs and Refugees in crisis-affected areas in Iraq
Objective of the project
Increase access to inclusive quality primary and secondary education for IDPs, returnees and refugees, living within and outside camps in the six governorates
Sub-objectives
1: Develop the capacity of civil society organizations active and relevant in the provision of educational services in Iraq (through partnership)
2: Foster policy dialogue with the GoI, the KRG and local authorities delivering education in emergencies (UNESCO)
3: Establish partnerships with I/NNGOs to:
Improve access to inclusive education for vulnerable school-age children (equality)
Adapt education and learning environments to the situation of vulnerable children (quality)

15. Timeline and key numbers
Activities
Dates
Formal launch of the call for partnership
From February 20, 2017 (Date to be confirmed)
Closing date for inquiries
Date +10 days
Deadline to submit proposal and application form
Date + 3 weeks
Start date of implementation period for Y1
April 2017 (tentative)
Figures
Number
Year 1 budget for component 3
$3.776 M
Total budget for component 3
$11.34 M
Total beneficiaries
100,000
Distribution of beneficiaries
65,000 IDPs
30,000 Returnees
5,000 Refugees

16. Geographical areas

17. Structure of the partnerships
Cross-cutting activities
School construction
Mine risk education
Implementation model
Relevant organizations apply as stand-alone or fellow partners
Relevant organizations are part of the above partnership structures (punctual or regular)
Organizations are waived from the principle of exclusivity
Principle of exclusivity applies

18. Contacts Technical questions Frederic VINCENT f.vincent@unesco.org
Skype: frederic.vincent0708
In Erbil up to February 28
Admin, etc. inquiries
GPS: ,

19. Refugee Education Update - UNHCR

20. Information Management
ActivityInfo:
new interface for 2017
step-by-step powerpoint guide
training workshops
training videos
Partner sharing of assessments
Ensuring that when your agency does assessments (e.g. WASH Team, Food Security Team, Protection Team, etc) that they include a few EiE questions in the assessment mission!!
Individual questions about AI, come and see Fred and Ayad after the meeting!

21. Mosul Crisis Response: Education Dashboard 18 Feb 2017
Funding required: $10m Current Funding: $38%
Current No. Partners: 9
Type of Orgn
Among the recently displaced people by the Mosul emergency, 35% are school aged. The feared displacement in Western Mosul may double this figure.
Children Displaced*
56,106
# Children supported through EiE Activities
Out of this, 14,636 re boys & 13,825 girls IDP children participating in non-formal education majorly in camp settings.
Children Supported in TLS
28,461
These resumed education following the re-opening of 30 schools in Eastern Mosul with partners support.
Schools Re-opened in E. Mosul 70
Teachers & PTAs
Displaced school-aged children in camps are not accessing any form of education activities due to funding gaps
IDP Children Need EiE Support
27,645
Children reached per camp
Challenges
- Unpaid teacher salaries hampering the re-opening of schools in the re-taken areas in Eastern Mosul.
- Insufficient number of textbooks available for formal learning.
- Limited funding for partners stalling the scaling up of the response in non-camp locations.
Contact:

22. The IDP Call Center..

23. IDP Call Centre
Established in 2015 by UNOPS in Iraq to promote accountability - Around 60,000 calls handled since its launch (98% of the calls received are from IDPs) - 9 operators (English, Arabic, Kurdish) - From Sunday to Thursday (8.30am – 4.30pm)

24. IDP Call Centre
2015 : 8999 (with Korek and Zien) : (free number) : (free number) and extend the service, with continued outreach campaign (SMS services etc.)

25. IDP Call Centre
Hotline can provide : > information on humanitarian services > feedback / complaints > referrals (eg. PSEA Task force)
For more information:
Partners can also visit the Call Centre (in Erbil UN Compound)

26. AOB: Sub-National meetings
Centre South: 26th February, 10am, NCCI Baghdad
Dahuk: 28th February, 10am, venue tbc
Erbil: 6th March, 9am, SCI office
Kirkuk: 26th February, 11am, SCI office 
Sulaymaniah: 20th February, 10am, DoE office
Tikrit: 21st February, 11am, Sorouh office

27. Next meeting: Monday 6th March 2017
Thank you!
Next meeting: Monday 6th March 2017
Skype – KatyNoble.HST
Skype – mugabi-fred
Skype – Abdirisak09
Skype – Samirizzat
Skype – ashihan