MA'AN/Together: Towards Gender-Responsive and Empowering Education for Children

The project aims to improve the quality of education for children especially girls enrolled in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) primary schools in the West Bank and Gaza. Project activities include: (1) training primary school teachers in gender-responsive child centered play-based teaching methods; (2) training counsellors and physical education teachers in play-based methods to deliver psychosocial support and life skills/leadership activities; (3) training school principals and education officials on gender equality child protection policies and principles and services for students and families victims of abuse; and (4) rehabilitating school facilities to be more gender-responsive. The primary beneficiary population of this project are 1 230 000 refugee girls and boys attending 370 UNRWA schools in the West Bank and Gaza.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased integration of gender-responsive play-based learning by primary school teachers into their teaching practice; (2) improved resilience of girls and boys to respond to and overcome conflict and violence including gender-based violence and; (3) improved response of school officials UNRWA staff mothers fathers and community members to the gender-based education needs of girls and boys and gender-based violence.