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Education Sub-Cluster-Hudaydah Meeting Minutes-Hudaydah Hub 19 April 2020
Venue: Zoom Meeting (Online) due to precautionary measures for COVID-19
Date/Time: Sunday, 19-04-2020/ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Participants from Government and Local Authorities: National level (MoE- Sana’a Technical Office, MoE Statistics and Planning
Manager). Governorate levels (Hajjah Education Office Manager, Hudaydah Education Office’ Coordinator, (Head of SCAMCHA-Hajjah,
Deputy Head of SCAMCHA-Hajjah, SCAMCHA- Hajjah Humanitarian Coordinator)).
Education Partners’ Participants: Yemen Education Cluster Coordinator, UNICEF, NRC, War Child, NFDHR, SFD, VHI, ADO, AGF, I am for
My Country, SADA, Qatar Charity, Manahel, Aspher Rea Sea, Al Ghad Foundation, Response MENA
Partners (Not Attended): Care, SCI, BFD, ZOA, PWP
Meeting Agenda
1. Welcoming, Introduction, and Agenda 2. Review action points of previous meeting 3. Education intervention for COVID-19 in schools 4. Updates on partners’ Education Intervention in Hudaydah
and Hajjah governorates. 5. Teachers’ Incentives (Gov. Salaries VS. UNICEF Incentives) 6. AOB
Meeting Minutes
Agenda discussed Action points
1. Welcoming, Introduction and agenda.
Education Sub-Cluster coordination meeting- Hudaydah hub started at 10:00 AM in the
same day and date mentioned above. The meeting begun with welcoming the participants
from MoE-Sana’a, Yemen Education Cluster Coordinator, Heads of EO and SCMCHA offices
in Hajjah governorates, and representatives of UN/INGOs/and LNGOs. ESNCC appreciated
and warmly thanked all for attending. Then introducing each other started followed by
reading the agenda.
Thereafter, the newly Yemen Education National Cluster Coordinator Rania Zakhia has
been warmly welcomed and introduced to all participants. And ESNCC appreciated her
effective efforts she did for Yemen Education Cluster in very short time. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Review action points of previous meeting:
o ESNCC-Hudaydah Hub reviewed and summarized the outcomes of the previous sub-cluster
coordination meeting which included all four governorates in Hudaydah hub (Hudaydah, Hajjah,
Mahweet, and Raymah) with attendance of MoE-Deputy Minister- Head of MoE-Technical
Office Mr. Ali Alhaimi, EOs Managers, Heads of SCAMCHAs in the four governorates, as follows:
MoE- Deputy Minister’s Action Points: the priorities of General Education Needs:
- Providing Teachers Incentives
- Provision of TLS/Additional classes along with its scholastic materials.
- Support MoE Textbooks Press to assist in providing Schoolbooks. Partners who have an
intervention with school bags can add schoolbooks in the bag through MoE Textbooks Press,
which will offer it with very reasonable prices.
- Support Students with School Meals
- School rehabilitation including wash and providing maintenance for school desks.
MoE- Deputy Minister’s Action Points: Recommendations for Partners: - Enhancing real and usual partnership and coordination with MoE starting with preparation,
planning steps, implementation stages, and mentoring and evaluation of projects.
- Focus on development activities and early recovery projects rather than emergency activities.
- Education partners highly requested to plan their projects according to the national vision for
building the new state Yemen.
- Partners to coordinate first with GEO at governorate levels in order to determine the targeted
district and schools before sharing with the donor. Partners can target the district they already in
but with coordination with GEO based on needs.
- Full coordination with MoE and SCMCHA at Sana’a level, GEO and SCMCHA at district and
governorate levels, and the cluster in the area to enhance proper implementation.
- All partners to share their intervention mapping 2020 with the sub-cluster based on the national
vision of new Yemen. ESNCC to share the mapping with MoE in cluster template.
- Partners to share the implemented activities report with the sub-cluster regularly/monthly.
- Absence of key partners noticed regularly, especially today while MoE, GEOs, SCMCHA are
discussing in one table. ESNCC to report to MoE the usual absent partners.
3. Education intervention for COVID-19 in schools
ESNCC requested MoE representatives to clarify the MoE strategy and plan towards response
for COVID-19 specifically to fill the study gap and conduct final exams for the school year 19/20.
MoE- Coordination Unit Manager- Waleed Al-Hashemi- ensured that MoE has taken
precautionary measures to preserve its’ students, as the study and final exams have been
suspended as a preliminary procedure. And the Ministry is currently preparing a plan for
alternative education and access to the student by all available methods. He requested
education partners to clarify what their role for humanitarian aid in intervening to support
the ministry to confront the Covid-19 pandemic.
MoE- Statistics and Plan Manager- Abdulrahman Alsamawi- clarified that the Ministry has
a clear vision to respond to several scenarios against the Covid-19 pandemic. The first most
likely scenario is, in case of the optimistic situation and the absence of an outbreak of
corona in Yemen, the study will resume in schools and take into consideration to conduct
compensation classes for the lessons that students did not receive and then prepare for
the final exams, as compensation classes and final exams can be in August and start the
new school year in September 2020. The second unlikely scenario, in case of outbreak of
corona virus and continuation of the quarantine, schools will remain closed and the
Ministry will seek to reach the students to homes using different technology programs that
provides compensation classes for students to cover the studding gap of the school year
2019/2020, it could be online, through WhatsApp groups or self-education or through
educational television channels, that requires the cooperation of all including family
members. A great effort should be given as such experience has not been done before .
Yemen Education Cluster Coordinator- Rania Zakhia- thanked all participants for
interacting and raising an important issue for protecting schools/students from Covid-19 to
ensure the continuation of the educational process. Commenting on what was presented
by MoE staff, there were extensive meetings and discussions that took place and are still
continuing on a weekly basis between the MoE- Technical Office headed by Mr. Ali Al-Haimi
and the National Cluster to come up with a logical framework that enables for realistic
implementation activities that considers the economic conditions of society. For instance,
as an alternative solution to provide any method among several possible ways, as example,
the lessons to be printed in papers and MoE distributed to students with the support of
partners, the goal is to reach a large segment of children students even in the absence of
access to some students (in villages or displaced students), who will be provided with
alternative solutions after responding to students that can be reached by available
methods. It is possible to benefit from previous experiences in Arab countries that have
had the same scenario. It is desirable for education partners to clarify at what kind of
contribution they have to support or adopt meaningful ideas for alternative education in
such situations. Finally, she requested the partners to identify their ability to respond to
Covid-19 during these times .
Hajjah EO Manager- Ali Alqutaib- thanked all for the interaction and presence in such
circumstances, and reconfirmed that the most important precautionary steps taken by the
MoE against the pandemic of Covid-19 is the suspension of study and closing schools as a
precautionary measure in order to preserve students until further notice. However; most
important is the teachers’ incentives of Mustaba’a and Harad districts of Hajjah
governorate which was not covered under UNICEF plan, claiming that they receive salaries
from Aden government. But that is not true. The truth is that those teachers did not receive
any incentives from Aden and excluding them from UNICEF incentives will cause a problem.
UNICEF is required to reconsider this by including them in teachers’ incentives response.
UNICEF- Education Officer- Mahyoub Alomeri- replied to Hajjah EO manager clarifying
that all teachers’ incentives are proceed by national level in Sana’a. Updated that
Mustaba’a district is still under verification process but Harad district is hard to access and
Action Points: 1. Education partners in Hudaydah hub to
clarify what kind of support they can
provide towards COVID-19 educational
response.
2. Education partners in Hudaydah hub to
contribute with their ideas that serves
to find out an alternative educational
methods in this period of precautions
against covid-19 and share it with MoE
and Education Cluster.
3. ESNCC- Hudaydah hub to communicate
with education partners in the hub and
inform the national cluster and MoE the
kind of support partners will provide for
the response to covid-19.
4. UNICEF Education Officer- Mahyoub
Alomeri to follow up with UNICEF
regarding Mustaba’a and Harad
response with teacher incentives and
share the result with the cluster and
Hajjah Education Officer.
5. ESNCC to design a template for the
pending sub-agreements in Sana’a and
share it with the partners, collect
partners’ inputs, consolidate all inputs
in one matrix and share it with
SCAMCHA at governate level and MoE.
6. Any Education partner has an
emergency intervention for COVID-19 in
schools, should submit their proposal to
MoE with clear details.
7. Education Partners in Hudaydah hub to
cooperate with Education Sub-Cluster
at hub level for effective outputs
towards response to COVID-19 in
Schools.
has no population; however, he will verify that with UNICEF-Sana’a and share the updates
with Hajjah EO manager.
SCAMCHA Hajjah Deputy Manager- Mr. Mohd Alqoshem- thanked the national cluster
and sub-cluster coordinators and all attended partners for their presence and conduct this
meeting during the outbreak of COVID-19. Commenting on the MoE plan to response to
COVID-19, suggesting that plan to include awareness for student to protect them from
corona virus. For the teachers’ incentives, he confirmed what Hajjah EO manager raised
regarding Mustaba’a and Harad districts, and ensured that teachers in Mustaba’a district
did not receive any salaries from Aden. In addition he clarified that all teachers from Harad
district have been displaced to other districts and they deserve their incentives to be paid
in the schools they displaced to. He also informed all that UNICEF did not accommodated
the updated list of teachers and relied on last year list.
UNICEF- Education Officer- Mahyoub Alomeri- replied that UNICEF will not get approval
to distribute teachers’ incentive until it follows the list shared by MoE at national level.
MoE- Coordination Unit Manager- Waleed Al-Hashemi- welcomed the participation of
SCAMCHA-Hajjah and commented on what has been raised as he ensured that MoE has
produced an urgent plan to confront the Corona Virus outbreak and took swift
precautionary measures, in addition MoE is supporting the preparation of a comprehensive
plan to respond to Covid-19 which is (educational-health-economic) that includes an
awareness plan for society about schools to be conducted through MoE, and education
offices at governorate and district levels, and the plan will be shared after the completion
of final review. Therefore, it is more important to know the actual support that education
partners (UN/INGO/LNGO) will provide to assist MoE and EOs to protect students and
schools from Corona virus outbreak.
4. Updates on partners’ Education Intervention in Hudaydah and
Hajjah Governorates.
UNICEF- Education Officer- Mahyoub Alomeri- confirmed that there is ongoing
coordination between UNICEF and MoE at Sana’a level to come up with suitable solutions
with practical procedures for COVID-19. And currently there is a plan for wash intervention
by providing cleaning materials for the targeted schools.
MoE- Statistics and Plan Manager- Abdulrahman Alsamawi- commented on UNICEF wash
intervention as during this critical situation with COVID-19 outbreak, if there is no water
or latrines in schools, there is no value to intervene with cleaning materials. MoE reconfirm
that the priority is for the actual support to enable students to receive the missing classes,
cover the gap and conduct the final exams for the school year 19/20.
NFDHR- Education Project Manager- Ahlam Ahmed- thanked MoE representatives for
sharing hints of the MoE plan to response to COVID-19, and highlighted that how to equally
reach to each male and female students on their houses while this current economic crisis
Yemen faces as many families cannot provide TVs or mobiles especially those in rural areas
who suffers from the absence of basic services (electricity power, internet connections,…).
There is a need to apply Equal Access concept to all female and male students.
MoE- Coordination Unit Manager- Waleed Al-Hashemi- ensured that MoE will target large
category of students by recordings of educational materials that broadcast by satellite
channels, as well as giving the permissions to copy those records for later following or
follow them on the mobile, trying all available methods will be used, whether through
television broadcasts or the Internet. And this needs real cooperation between MoE and
education partners.
SCAMCHA Hajjah Deputy Manager- Mr. Mohd Alqoshem- proposed if the distance/online
education applied, asked what is MoE plan for students feedback as two ways interaction.
WaR Child- Education Program Manager- Moneer Alhomaidi- ensured that WaR Child
prepared a proposal to distribute recreational kits that includes games for children and
study materials that helps educating students. Of course root solutions needed, but not
applicable for Yemen circumstances.
MoE- Coordination Unit Manager- Waleed Al-Hashemi- replied that during this period of
COVID-19 pandemic, MoE priority is to enable students to receive the lessons they missed
and to enable them to conduct final exams 19/20. Recreational kits are not desirable at this
time and if WaR child has any other intervention should it share it with MoE first.
NRC- Education Project Manager- Arwa Alansi- thanked the participation of MoE, EO, and
SCAMCHA at Hajjah governorate level and as she appreciated the precautionary measures
taken by MOE to preserve its’ students, she notified that for Education in Emergencies
response and utilize the chance that students are not reporting to schools these days which
allow partners to implement the regular activities such as additional TLS in schools and
schools rehabilitations including wash and prepare the schools very well for upcoming
school year. She requested MoE to facilitate such projects in emergencies. In addition
wished from MoE to play an essential role to fasten signing the pending sub-agreements in
SCAMCHA-Sana’a to enable the partners to response and prepare the schools for the new
school year 2020/2021.
I am For My County- Executive Manager- Shawqia Alabsi- attracted all to concentrate on
reality as in ground and apply what is applicable for Yemen case which suffers from many
crises and war which caused sociological impact on children and students. Closing the
schools caused Leakage of students for workers to help in their families’ income. She
proposed to prepare schools with needed Sterilizers and receive students in schools to fill
the study gaps and conduct the exams. That is for the first three class levels for two weeks,
then receive other levels for the next two weeks. By this we would be able to response for
education in emergencies and ensure the continuity of education process.
Yemen Cluster Coordinator- Rania Zakiha- thanked Shawqia Alabsi for her suggestion and
agreed with her that schools are the best place to educate students without crowdedness
and make schools ready with required cleaning and sterilizer’s materials. However; MoE
already decided and took precautionary measures and closed the schools to preserve
students from COVID-19 outbreak. In this case, MoE usage of different available ways to
reach to most of the students is more appropriate at this time. So that can coincides with
the preparation of a strategy for how to reach the rest of the students that we cannot reach
them now. Those unreachable students not exceed between 20 to 30%. It is responsibility
of all to cooperate with MoE and provide them with practical ideas to enable them to
deliver the educational material to the students under this challenge of facing COVID-19.
Hajjah EO Manager- Ali Alqutaib- emphasized that the majority of students in Hajjah
governorate own mobile phones as observed in several field visits, this is the case in the
rest of other governorates. So mobiles can be used to deliver educational material, but the
problem is awareness of the usage and activation of the family’s role in instructing their
children to follow up on that educational material. Besides teachers’ awareness of the
importance of providing study materials in different means. Finally, he hoped to produce
practical outputs from this meeting.
MoE- Statistics and Plan Manager- Abdulrahman Alsamawi- also commented on
Shawqia’s proposal that it’s agreed that schools have the best environment for students to
receive the education concepts. But that does not prevent the creation of different
alternatives through TV channels or Internet to fill the study gaps. This may not be 100%
successful but at least a no of students will be benefited with these means. And we should
catch up these kind of technologies that followed by most of countries.
MoE- Coordination Unit Manager- Waleed Al Hashemi- concluded with that MoE
welcomes any urgent intervention to response to COVID-19 and any partner has kind of
intervention should propose it to MOE and all needed support will be given for education
in emergencies.
The meeting ended after 1:45 hrs of Extensive and Productive Discussions.
Note: All Action Points are summarized in the right column of this meeting minutes .
Noted and written by Education Sub-National Cluster- Hudaydah Hub.