Educational Needs Assessment Report

Provision of Education Emergency Services to Affected Schools of Bayt Alfaqih District -

Hodiedah Governorate
Septemer - October 2020

Introduction
Al-Hodeidah Governorate is one of the most hard-hit areas by the crisis of war in Yemen. All life sectors and
infrastructure in all its districts have severely affected. One of those pivot sectors is education which
represents one of the most challenging problems today in Yemen generally and in Hodiedah on particular.

After years of escalating conflict, the Yemeni people continue to bear the burdens of continued hostilities and
severe economic decline. The western coast of Yemen remains one of the highest displacement rates at
present, as military escalation on the West Coast has forced hundreds of people to flee to nearby areas of
districts around the western coast far from the conflict, such as Bayt Alfaqih, Alganawis, Alzaidiah, Almunirah,
Aldhahi, Bajil and others. Ongoing war situation and armed conflicts, along with cultural beliefs, and
increasing poverty levels have combined to reduce children’s attainment of education in Yemen. For those
that do attend school, they do so in schools with too few resources and insufficient space

Data collection methods

Objectives

The main objective of collecting the data collection is to explore the real needs and to quantify these needs
to have a deeper knowledge on how to meet these needs

The objectives of the assessment were as follows:

1. Assess the current situation of the targeted schools.

2. Identify the learning priorities needed for the targeted schools.
3. Alleviating the deteriorating education process in the targeted schools.

Data collection methods

The assessment lasted for almost two weeks during the period from 17 September 2020 till 3 October 2020,
during which we interviewed and called all related people.

AGF has collected the data through primary data collection methods including:
 1. Key Informant people (interview): including EO-Hodeidah MANAGER AND ENGINEER : there was a direct
contact with the manager of the education office of Hodeidah governorate through interview who
cooperated with our team in terms of recommending the most affected schools that are in urgent needs,
providing some essential information, and connecting the team with the related educational authorities
in Bayt Alfaqih district.
2. Education office of Bayt Alfaqih District: the team contacted with the manager of the education office of
Bayt Alfaqih district who cooperated with the team and provided many essential information in terms of
recommending the most affected schools in the Bayt Alfaqih district, what urgent needs to be met, and
connecting the team to the headmasters of the target schools.
3. Headmasters of the target schools: AGF has contacted with the target school headmasters of the five
schools in Bayt Alfaqih district as they provided the team with the most vital information including the
full lists of the female-male students of the schools, the current situation of the school infrastructure,
connecting the team to the female and male teachers of the target school as to obtain more specific
information.

Key findings

Table (1): Summary of the data collected for the ten targeted schools

No. School Village Sub- Students Teachers Latrines Attached Siege

district rooms
M F IDPs Total Fixed Volunteers Classes M F
Altaraf Alshami

1 Omar Bin Deer Alwait 133 148 0 281 5 5 6 1 2 2 0

Alkhatab
2 Anas Bin Aljanadiah 104 120 0 224 4 3 6 2 2 2 0
Malik
3 Bin Abas Alabasi 472 412 25 909 16 13 18 9 4 8 1
Total (Altaraf Alshami) 709 680 25 1414 25 21 30 12 8 12 1

4 Alsediq Alturbah 204 150 35 389 8 2 6 2 2 2 0

5 Bin Ajail Alhawak 595 0 18 613 35 2 0
Bayt Alfaqih

6 Alsalam Alshamah 1610 0 60 1670 57 7 18 13 5 0

7 Saad Bin Alsa'diah 456 470 100 1026 23 6 18 4 3 3 0
Abi Wagas
8 Khawlah Alhawak 0 1773 50 1823 59 21 13 5 4 0
9 Albaian Alajalia 500 76 0 576 23 0 9 4 4 4 0
10 22-May Alsalifain 729 218 33 980 35 17 24 9 0 5 1
Total (Bayt Alfaqih) 4094 2687 296 7077 240 55 88 32 14 23 1

Total (Both Districts) 4803 3367 321 8491 265 76 118 44 22 35 2

Students:

There are IDPs students enrolled in the target schools while there are many of IDPs boys and girls are not
able to attain the school for poverty reasons.

About 321 are Students of IDPs enrolled in the ten schools during the past year while many of them are still
out there due to either the inability to meet the school requirement or because the classrooms are not
enough to receive all the coming students.

Teachers:

The issue that is of the deepest negative effect on the educational process at those schools is the absence of
the fixed and volunteering teachers, and if coming to schools, they show up in an irregular manner due to not
having any payment from the government or any humanitarian organizations. Only when teachers and
volunteers are provided with monthly allowances, can the continuity of learning in those schools be ensured.

The following table clarifies the number of fixed and volunteer teachers in the five target schools.

Teacher Status
300

250

200

150

100

50

0
Fixed Volunteers
Series1 265 76

As the above table shows that 76 of the teachers are volunteers in the ten schools receiving no payments
whatsoever and most of these teacher volunteers are females. Even the fixed teacher either do not receive
or receive a very low payments that do not met the minimum life requirements.

Classrooms Availability and Adequacy:

Additional classrooms made of concrete bricks in the targeted ten schools are needed to accommodate more
students.
Schools Equipment:

Most of those classrooms lack doors, windows, and chairs. Therefore, it is too hot inside those classrooms in
summers, and their ceilings are leaking water in rainy seasons. In addition, these schools lack teaching
equipment and materials such as white/black boards, pens etc.

Schools Renovation:

All the targeted ten schools are in miserable need to be renovated and rehabilitated. The harsh climate and
the war consequences have caused severe damage to the schools including classrooms, latrines, walls and
ceilings. Therefore, if it rains, the ceilings leak water over the ground, walls, desks, and even over students.
The photos below clearly show how the schools in urgent for restoration works.

Schools safety

Two of the ten schools do not have fences at all while the other eight need rehabilitation work. Fences are
essential in order to protect students from external harms and to keep them safe inside, to protect the
classrooms' furniture and other school properties from probable thefts.
Power Source:

Most of the schools’ electric & electronic equipment such as light bulbs, ceiling fans, school microphones &
speakers are not operated due to the lack of electricity in the targeted schools.

WASH Services:

- Water availability:

Students, especially female students, do not have an access to safe and adequate drinking water in the target
schools. They instead have to walk to the water source to drink. Young boys are prone to risks when they go
away from school parameter to the water source while adult female students, for social norms, can’t go to
the water source instead they tend to remain in the school without water.

- Schools Latrines:

The following bar-chart shows the number of bathrooms (latrines) available in each school compared to the
number of students in the schools.
 No. of Students vs. No. of Latrines
2000
1800
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
Omar
Anas Saad
Bin Bin Alsedi Bin Alsala Khawl Albaia 22-
Bin Bin Abi
Alkhat Abas q Ajail m ah n May
Malik Wagas
ab
Series1 3 4 13 4 0 13 7 5 8 9
281 224 909 1414 389 613 1670
281 224 909 389 613 1670 1026 1823 576 980
1026 1823 576 980

Only 66 latrines were counted for about 8491 students with an average of 109 male students per a latrine
(average is 50 students per latrine) while an average of 153 female students per latrine (average is 25
students per latrine) which is far away from the average.

The latrines at schools for boys, girls, and teachers do not exist, are totally broken, or in poor conditions.
Students resort to practice defecation and urination on the open or the schoolyard which is a cause of
spreading lack-of-hygiene diseases and reason for the violation of protection and privacy of students,
specifically, girls’ privacy.

What is more disturbing that current latrines are not divided by age and gender, i.e., female and male
teachers, boys and girls at schools all share the same dirty partially-working latrines that lack hygiene, water,
and privacy and this is one of the main reasons why many female students drop out the school early.

Recommendations

The recommendations can be grouped into three categories as following:

1- Schools Rehabilitation:

- Rehabilitating Classrooms: It is recommended to support schools to provide a suitable learning

environment to students by rehabilitating the existing classes.
 - Building new classes: this is to address overcrowding in classrooms especially after arrival of new IDPs to
the targeted schools from nearby districts.
- Providing Education Supplies and Materials: Provision of education materials with consumable and basic
learning materials such as white and black boards, pens, markers, and boxes of chalk to the targeted
schools.
- Constructing School Fences: It is highly recommended to construct fences in order to protect students
from external harms and to keep them safe inside, to protect the classrooms' furniture and other school
properties from probable thefts.

2- WASH in Schools Services:

- Latrines: building new latrines and/or rehabilitating the existing latrines that are severely damaged at
the affected schools
- Water Taps/Tanks: both of latrines and handwashing basins require tanks to store water.

3- Teacher’s Needs:

- Teacher Training. Training of teachers of both genders, men and women, on education in emergency EIE.

- Teacher Allowances. Providing allowances for unpaid or volunteer teachers at targeted schools.

Finally, the following table illustrates all the activities recommended to bring the ten schools into the suitable
state of education environment:

Table (2): the most needed activities for the targeted schools

School’s Name Rehabilitating Related Building Rehabilitating Building Building Water Solar- Double Handwas
Classrooms Rooms classrooms Latrines Latrines Fences Taps/Tan panels school hing
ks System desks Basins
Alsediq 4 0 90 1
6 2 4 2 1
Bin Ajail 17 5 0 0 119 1
9 2 1
Alsalam 6 0 334 1
18 5 13 2 1
Saad Bin Abi 0 2 175 1
18 3 7 2 1
Wagas
Khawlah 4 2 80 1
13 4 5 2 1
Albaian 4 0 115 1
9 4 8 2 1
22-May 0 3 190 1
24 5 9 1 2 1
Omar Bin 3 0 60 1
6 2 3 2 1
Alkhatab
Anas Bin Malik 0 0 100 1
6 2 4 2 1
Bin Abas 2 2 120 1
18 8 13 1 2 1
Total 118 35 23 66 9 2 20 10 1383 10