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Education Coordination Meeting |
EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING
Janurary 10th, 2002
Participants
Ms. Elena
Misik (chair)
Ms. Maja Suslevska, IOM
Ms. Andrijana Micevska (minutes)
Ms. Nadica Gjozeva, UNHCR
Ms. Svetlana Pandiloska, UNICEF
Ms. Vladanka Andreeva, OCHA
Mr. Ljupco Stojanovski, CSHI
Ms. Anne Bideau, Solidarites
Ms. Anat Prag, CRS
Mr. Vladimir Petrov, DRC
Ms. Tiziana Clerico, UNHCR
Agenda:
Reconstruction/Rehabilitation
Solidarites
informed that they have finished the reconstruction of the school in
Vaksince. The rehabilitation in Ropajce and Vistica has been delayed due
to the bad weather conditions. As soon as the weather is better, the work
in Ropajce will continue; the rehabilitation of the school in Vistica is
pending the UNHCR QIPS project.
Solidarites
are interested in rehabilitation of the schools in Gosince, Lukare, Brest,
Malina Maala, Tanusevci, Hondolarska Maala, N.Reka, Odhzilarska Maala,
Poroj and PS"Lirija" - Skopje.
CRS have
completed the rehabilitation of the schools in Ljuboten, Ljubanci,
Brvenica, PS"Kiril i Metodij" – Tetovo; they have finished the protection
(protective grids) of windows in the school in Jegunovce and they expect
to complete the rehabilitation of the schools in Lopate, Josifovo and
PS"25 Maj" – Skopje in 7 days.
Regarding the
new school building (upper primary classes) in Arachinovo, no agency has
available containers to provide temporary shelter. Since the
reconstruction of the PS "25 Maj" (school close to Arachinovo) will be
finished in 7 days one possible solution may be to transport the children
from Arachinovo to PS "25 Maj". Funding for this option should be
investigated.
DRC are
interested in rehabilitation of 3-4 schools damaged directly by the
crisis. Suggestions wre made from the list of uncommitted schools.
UNICEF
informed that has some funds available for rehabilitation of schools in
the wider conflict area. All agencies are invited to co-operate and/or
co-fund. First suggestion is the sanitation system in PS "Braka Ramiz i
Hamid" – Suto Orizari.
The
rehabilitation list will be updated and attached to the minutes.
Refugees
UNICEF
informed that the procedure for signing the certificates for the refugee
children that finished the previous school year in the school in Radusa
village will start next week.
UNICEF will
provide all refugee pupils with record books, tomorrow 11 January.
UNHCR
informed that they will continue with the support with snacks for refugee
children and the transportation for the school in Katlanovo and they are
also planning to continue with the scholarship support programme together
with OSI-Macedonia.
Other
Education Programmes
IOM informed
that they are implementing a confidence building programme with the same
strategy and principles like in Kosovo, a mix of small grants for mixed
schools and some communication promotion programmes. The centres in
Skopje, Kocani and Bitola are already working and two more centres in
Kicevo and Tetovo are to be established. Details of the programme will be
made available.
CRS is
re-starting the School - Parent Partnership Programme in 14 schools all
over Macedonia. The criteria for schools selection were: ethnic,
geographical and social diversity. According to the project strategy, the
school management staff (director, pedagogue) are working together with
the Parents’ Council to address school and community problems.
UNICEF has no
reply from the Ministry of Education and Science on the project proposal
for Confidence Building and Conflict Resolution the conflict – affected
regions.
UNICEF
informed that the Babylon centres are now funded by the Agency for Youth
and Sport through a loan to the Government from the World Bank.
AOB
It was agreed
that all agencies submit the updates on their rehabilitation work to
UNICEF on Thursday 17th January by 3:00 p.m. so that the
rehabilitation list could be updated and shared for better co-ordination.
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