Project profile — Improved Learning Environment for Children

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved access to quality learning and teaching environments for students and school staff within targeted public schools; and (2) strengthened response by school staff to students’ needs in hygiene and psychosocial health issues in targeted public schools.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (April 2020) include: (1) rehabilitated 72 schools to Ministry of Education (MoE) standards and project specifications. These rehabilitated schools contained 58 gender-sensitive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) blocks and 15 WASH blocks constructed to MoE standards. Unused funds from three excluded and removed schools facilitated the provision of 1,628 desks to 49 schools; (2) finalized training material in April 2017, and a total of 53 Department of Education trainers and MOE trainers from 16 directorates successfully completed training on the use of educational methodologies to promote psychosocial awareness and support, and on the promotion of hygiene and care for the school environment; (3) trained 307 trainers (49 principals, 15 administrative staff, 33 counsellors and 210 teachers) from 75 selected schools on the use of educational methodologies to promote psychosocial awareness and support, and on the promotion of hygiene and care for the school environment; and (4) the first school principals’ forum was held in October 2017 to give school principals a platform to learn from each other. A total of 17 of 26 principals from targeted schools participated. 42,352 students that have benefitted from a better school environment through these trainings. These students are 6 to17 years of age and attend public schools in the Amman, Irbid and Zarqa governorates in Jordan.