Against the background of increasing needs and more demands on urgent support for early childhood education, PROFA Education Programme will provide early learning support for children of ages between 3 and 5. This will provide opportunities for school readiness and linkages to primary and secondary education, and also protect the children from all forms of violence. Investment in early learning, formal and non-formal education protects targeted communities and children from being involved in activities causing a humanitarian crisis. The programme will continue to maintain key education in emergencies interventions in the conflict-affected and food-insecure areas for IDPs, host communities and returnees. This includes support for teaching and learning, psychosocial support programming, infrastructure improvement, school WASH activities, teacher training and provision of incentives. The programme will improve the quality of education and protection services at all levels for all children, including children with disabilities through establishing recreational spaces, learning and cognitive development and build teachers’ capacity to deliver quality services. This will be done through the protection mainstreaming activities including medical care, legal support, safety and psychosocial services for at-risk children and women as well as GBV survivors.

Under the strategic objective targeting building resilience of the community, PROFA Education Programme aims to enhance the capacity of the community and education actors to mitigate the impact of emergencies on children and youth. By providing access to cross sectoral basic services and predictable access to livelihoods, the programme will also address the needs of the returnees/refugees. Through the increased cross-sectoral activities, the programme aims to support durable solutions of the targeted population groups.