EDUCATION SECTOR MEETING
8 January 2015
Time: 10:00 – 11:30
Participants:
Oleksandr Ovdiienko (OCHA)
Oyvind Wistrom (UNICEF)
Ljiljana Sinickovic (Save the Children)
Vladyslav Lashko (UNICEF)
Veronika Andreenkova (La Strada)
Dina Gud (Danish Demining Group/DRC)
Minutes
Subject
Discussion
Informati
on
updates
on the
situation
with
education
, needs
UNICEF: For general information update distributed hardcopies of ACAPS report and latest OCHA SitRep pages
relevant for education cluster (see; http://acaps.org/img/documents/e-ukraine-sdr.pdf and
http://www.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/www.humanitarianresponse.info/files/pdfpreview/aca42d4d902582839
b91326218e9944a.jpg).
UNICEF conducted two weeks ago visit to schools and Kindergartens in Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and
Severodonetsk in order to check school facilities and kindergartens in post-conflict affected areas, especially in
rural areas. A list of prioritized schools and KGs for renovation is being prepared. The initial list of damaged
facilities was outdated. Unconfirmed information suggest there is a number of IDP children out there not attending
Action
points
.
Finalizing
priority list
for
rehabilitatio
and
response
school but especially kindergartens due to various reasons. Schools are “open” to IDPs and it is easy for IDP
n of schools
parents to have their children accepted as pupils.
and KGs.
As a part of establishing the Cluster-status a new Information Officer is assigned to UNICEF in order to upgrade
and coordinate information.
Early childhood development kits (for approx. 900 IDP children) were delivered to school psychologists who are
participating in psychosocial work with school age children in Severodonetsk, Slavyansk and Mariupol.
OCHA: Upgrading to the Cluster system have been main concern last weeks, including upgrading of information
systems, including lists of needs and gaps. .
Renewal of links to Government have to be re-established due to change of seats in Ukrainian government.
OCHA requests all cluster members to forward information to them, in order to upgrade the webpage on
humanitarian response humanitarianresponse.info.
SAVE: has assigned Ljiljana as head of education sector. Save has established office in Dnitropetrovsk. Various
activities conducted focusing on IDP children including Early childhood care with training of pre-school teachers,
psycho-social intervention, distribution of ECD-kits etc.
Danish Demining Group: established offices in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporhizia and conducting mine awareness
training..
SAVE and
UNICEF
jointly
conduct
regional
Education
Cluster
meetings in
Dnitropetro
vsk
La Strada: conducts training and Training-of-Trainers in 6 oblasts. 507 activities have been conducted 300 places,
reaching 11.000 participants (of which 3.500 are teachers).
La Strada to
The activities includes mini-training in subjects/skills like Mine awareness, How to integrate IDPs in classes,
share plans
Psycho-social Intervention, Crisis-management, All the trainings are recognized/credited by MoES.
and lists of
trainings
La Strada shared information related to diplomas for school children in the conflict/rebel-controlled areas:
with
according to statement from the LNA/DNA-authorities, all school and university exams will be held according to
EdCluster.
Russian curriculum and legislation. What implications this will have for the pupils is not known. There are
currently approx. 330 schools (and 280 KGs) in LNA/DNA areas.
La Strada
At the same time the Kiev government upholds the offer for all pupils in LNA/DNA areas to sit for exams in
will check
governmental controlled areas,
with their
informants
Lastly UNICEF distributed to the meeting a draft for focal points (target areas/vulnerable groups/topics and areas
for intervention) for the education cluster members. This draft was just meant for the cluster to prepare for the
updating of the WhoDoesWhatWhere-template (3Ws).
whether this
is a major
problem or
not
UNICEF
update the
3W
template
Informati
on
sharing
Ministry of Education (absent now) will be briefed by UNICEF at a separate meeting.
Next
meeting to
be held on
22 January
at 10 am.
Minutes to
be shared