Equitable Access to Inclusive Education in Crisis-Affected Regions of Cameroon

Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2021) include: (1) trained 863 child protection and education actors (265 women and 597 men) on inclusive education child’s right gender and human rights and protection of children with disabilities; (2) trained 363 members of 20 community-based child protection networks (164 women and 199 men) on child’s right to education. Also strengthened their ability to identify and refer vulnerable out-of-school children to animators and social workers; (3) promoted and valued their efforts to sensitize parents to the importance of keeping children in school. As well their prevention and protection actions already benefited 8 054 people including 2 903 children (1 306 boys and 1 597 girls) and 5 151 parents (2 973 women and 2 178 men); (4) identified 420 children (195 girls and 225 boys) at risk of dropping out of school and provided them with psychosocial medical and legal support as needed; (5) supported school reintegration (school fees and supplies for their return or stay in school). Among those children 33 (20 girls and 13 boys) are children living with disability; (6) provided school supplies (books pen pencil school bag) to 400 pupils (171 girls and 229 boys). Among these 135 children living with a disability (50 girls and 85 boys) enrolled in 25 different primary schools; (7) identified 420 children (195 girls and 225 boys) as being at risk of dropping out of school received psychosocial medical legal support as needed or support for school reintegration (school fees and school supplies for their return/stay in school); (8) provided hygiene and dignity kits (including a torch and a whistle to prevent rape and attract attention if attacked) to girls in all zones; and (9) distributed 7 936 temporary hand-washing stations 711 000 bars of soap and 31 332 hydro-gel hand sanitizers to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other diseases.