[{"bbox": [96, 127, 1177, 263], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action builds on the successes and learnings from previous and ongoing education support projects³ in conflict-affected areas, in particular Conflict Areas Support for Education to Learn ‘CASE2Learn’ project⁴. This Action has provided education to 401,216 children and youth, including 208,873 female and 192,343 male, in remote and conflict-affected ethnic areas across 11 states and regions of Myanmar. However, there are still more than 200,000 children who are out of school in the areas where RISE Network operates⁵."}, {"bbox": [96, 263, 1177, 660], "category": "Text", "text": "In the absence of a MIP 2021-27 for Myanmar, this action is prepared as a Special Measure for adoption in 2024. The action complements and enhances the EU-supported ongoing “Quality Basic Education Pathways for Children (QBEP4Children)⁶ and VET programmes⁷. The action contributes to the realisation of EU’s Gender Action Plan III (Q2021-2025, in particular regarding the ‘Thematic area – Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women’ and the Strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities (2021-2030). The action will strengthen and harmonise existing education services and target communities currently without education services, Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDPs) camps and villages, and those where services are not meeting children’s learning and education needs. The action focus will be on basic education but it will also contribute to the identification and development of relevant education programmes that address the learning needs of older out-of-school children particularly girls and illiterate women and those with disabilities through non-formal education, vocational education and training, remedial education/accelerated learning, and women literacy clubs. In a context of conflict and fragility of education services in the ethnic areas, the action will provide financial and technical resources to contribute to sustainability and expansion of education services. These initiatives aim to improve the quality of education, and to build stronger alignment in curriculum and promotion of core competencies across systems provided by the ethnic education authorities and providers."}, {"bbox": [96, 685, 1177, 740], "category": "Text", "text": "The overall objective (Impact) of this action is to contribute to continued and increased access to quality, inclusive and equality-focused education services in ethnic and conflict affected areas."}, {"bbox": [96, 765, 622, 792], "category": "Text", "text": "The specific objectives (Outcomes) of this action are to:"}, {"bbox": [96, 792, 1177, 844], "category": "List-item", "text": "i) Increased access to inclusive, quality education services and learning pathways⁸ in ethnic and conflict-affected areas⁹;"}, {"bbox": [96, 844, 1177, 899], "category": "List-item", "text": "ii) Strengthened teachers' capacities to deliver these services and improve the availability and accessibility of context-responsive, equality-focused teaching and learning materials;"}, {"bbox": [96, 899, 1177, 953], "category": "List-item", "text": "iii) Strengthened ethnic education systems, improve community-level management and sector coordination, advocacy and monitoring;"}, {"bbox": [96, 976, 1177, 1138], "category": "Text", "text": "The action is also aligned with the Joint Response Framework¹⁰ (JRF). Its specific objectives reflect the three main strategic objectives¹¹ of the JRF and will also be closely coordinated with other ethnic education programmes funded by other donors within the framework of the JRF. The action will ensure do-no-harm and conflict sensitive approaches, with conflict assessments undertaken before finalizing the design of interventions and activities, while a specific focus will be on ensuring an inclusive, and gender equality approach aiming at equity, strongly reflecting a right-based approach, focusing on the right to education. In light of the current circumstances in Myanmar, the action envisages"}, {"bbox": [85, 1163, 1144, 1212], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ ECHO-funded Conflict Areas Support for Education (CASE) and INTPA-funded Conflict Areas Support for Education Plus (CASE+)"}, {"bbox": [85, 1212, 1144, 1261], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ CASE2learn is being implemented by the INGO Adventist Development & Relief Agency (ADRA) Myanmar in partnership with 16 local ethnic education partner organizations that are part of the Rural Indigenous Sustainable Education Network (RISE)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1261, 1144, 1332], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ These figures are based on data compiled by RISE Network, and are consistent with data compiled by other stakeholders. It is not possible to collect reliable and comprehensive data in areas experiencing ongoing armed conflict, therefore estimates based on available information, and validated with stakeholders need to be used."}, {"bbox": [85, 1332, 973, 1357], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ NDICI ASIA/2023/ 442-208: Quality Basic Education Pathways for Children implementing by UNICEF."}, {"bbox": [85, 1357, 1121, 1430], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁷ NDICI-ASIA/2022/438-191: Strengthening Technical and Vocational Training and Non-formal education in Ethnic and Conflicted affected areas of Myanmar implementing by Save the Children and NDICI-ASIA/2022/438-092: SCORE - Skills for Community Resilience and Empowerment implementing by Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation."}, {"bbox": [85, 1430, 1144, 1479], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁸ Learning pathways is meant to include outreach education services in remote areas; Non-formal Education, Vocational Education and Training, remedial education/accelerated learning, and women literacy clubs."}, {"bbox": [85, 1479, 1144, 1575], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁹ This programme will focus primarily on ethnic and conflict affected areas including displaced ethnic children, youth and women in the areas controlled by the State Administration Council (SAC) because of their extreme vulnerability. Indicatively these are identified as Kayin, Mon, Shan, Kachin, Chin, Kayah, Rakhine, Shan, Sagaing, Bago, Tanintharyi, Mandalay, but these areas may be revised or expanded in line with evolution of the conflict."}, {"bbox": [85, 1575, 1144, 1624], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁰ The guiding document prepared by education development partners in Myanmar to address the education needs following the 2021 military coup"}, {"bbox": [85, 1624, 754, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹¹ Myanmar Joint Response Framework Review – Final Report 17 January 2024"}, {"bbox": [1027, 1656, 1144, 1682], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 33"}]