Over the course of a four-year period, the Strengthening Educational Pathways for Out of School Children in Somalia project aims to enrol 300,000 OOSC affected by poverty, displacement and crisis, into quality primary education. This project, a partnership between Education Above All, through its global programme, Educate A Child, and UNICEF, supported by the Somali government will introduce a set of integrated strategic interventions aimed at enrolling and retaining OOSC, which will be modelled, scaled and sustained through advocacy, social mobilisation, policy development and technical assistance as part of the overall system strengthening across target regions. 

This project addresses the social, economic, and cultural barriers to education, particularly barriers to girls’ education, with the aim of increasing enrolment and retention for children from excluded groups affected by recurrent conflict and crisis. Project results will be achieved through the rehabilitation of 1,000 classrooms and establishment of 500 mobile schools; improvement of 1,000 WASH facilities including safe drinking water in 1,500 schools; provision of educational materials in 1,500 supported schools and supplementary kits for 3,000 enrolled OOSC with disabilities; training of 3,000 teachers; and catch-up programmes for late entry/over-age children.