Friday, December 8 2023 20:04

ArmInfo.The World Bank announced today that Armenia has been selected to receive a new grant  from the State and Peacebuilding Umbrella Trust Fund to support the mental health and wellbeing of displaced children and adolescents from Nagorno-Karabakh region in over 200 schools across the country.   This was reported in a press release from the World Bank.

The grant will finance an upcoming project to be implemented jointly  by the World Bank and the Teach for Armenia Foundation, in  collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and  Sport, the Republican Pedagogical-Psychological Center, and the  Armenian State Pedagogical University.  The $2.9 million grant will  support the social integration of displaced children and adolescents  into Armenian schools, and capacity building and mentoring of school  staff to deliver tailored mental health and psychosocial support to  displaced children and adolescents, their families, and students from  the hosting communities. 

It will provide technical assistance to design a comprehensive  approach for the integration of displaced children and adolescents  into the education system along with a specialized mental health and  psychosocial support program through a combination of change-based  learning, engagement with local communities, and robust monitoring  and evaluation systems in schools.  The grant will also support  integrating the provision of mental health and psychosocial support  into the new curriculum. 

The State and Peacebuilding Umbrella Trust Fund (SPF) is a global  multi-donor fund administered by the World Bank that works with  partners to address the drivers and impacts of fragility, conflict,  and violence and strengthen the resilience of countries and affected  populations, communities, and institutions. SPF is supported by  Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland.

The World Bank is currently financing 10 projects in Armenia totaling  $500 million. Since its inception in Armenia in 1992, the World Bank  has provided around $2.7 billion from International Development  Association (IDA) to which Armenia became a donor in 2023, from the  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and  from trust funds. The World Bank is committed to continuing its  support to Armenia in its development path for ending extreme poverty  and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet.