Country: Uganda
Closing date: 13 Mar 2018
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Under the supervision the Chief of Education the consultant will be working with District Education Offices and the settlement level EiEWG, support the district to facilitate the process of developing the district level ERP for each of the focus district, guided by the priorities and expected funding level detailed in national ERP. The consultancy is also expected to make inputs to the District Implementation Plan.
Background
Since violence broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, there has been widespread displacement of the South Sudanese population resulting in a mass influx into Uganda. As of December 29, 2017, there are 1,053,276 South Sudanese refugees hosted in Uganda, out of which 61% are children under 18 years old. The refugees are reliant on the humanitarian assistance for survival. In the area of Education, at least 15 partners are operating in West Nile, to provide continuous educational access to refugee children. However, as the response is stretched by limited funding and the arrival of new refugees continues to remain high, effective coordination among humanitarian agencies and strategic planning aligned with the Refugee and Host Population Empowerment (ReHoPE) Strategy through the leadership of district is critical to ensure educational access to all refugee children.
The Government of Uganda’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework (CRRF) is a strategic framework to drive a pragmatic programming design for self-reliance and resilience of refugee and host communities in Uganda. In addition, the Education and Sports Sector Strategic Plan 2017-2020 highlights the need to develop and implement response programs for provision of quality education to refugees and the host communities.
In order to respond to the critical refugee situation on the basis of the above mentioned policies, the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) and stakeholders have initiated the development of the Uganda Education Response Plan for Refugee and Host Community (ERP). This national 3-year implementation plan sets out a realistic and implementable target to ensure improved learning outcomes for increasing numbers of refugee and host-community children and adolescents across Uganda and aims to align the priorities of the education emergency response among all partners. The plan highlights the need to strengthen leadership and coordination of education response, particularly by supporting the district/settlement level planning in the refugee hosting districts for better service delivery.
In order to develop relevant district level implementation plans in line with the ERP, it is essential to gather the latest available data in the settlements and host community. Some gaps in settlement data exist, such as school attendance data, which are important in the development of the plans. There is a lack of linkage between the district data and the settlement data, which results in refugee data and planning not embedded in the District Development Plans, which is crucial for sustainability and creating a nexus between the humanitarian and development support. The plans also needs to cater for new caseloads who are likely to arrive in the coming months. Therefore, there is a need for a strategic shift from an individual project-based approach to comprehensive effective planning with a vision, coupled with strengthened coordination mechanisms in order to direct efforts of Government and partners towards a harmonised approach. The use of authentic data to create the district level plan, helps to ensure the maximum numbers of refugee and targeted host community children to have access to the various education services (ECD, primary, skills training and secondary) and smooth transition from one level to the other.
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