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This is evidenced by the schools’ retention rate of 61% and students’ average academic performance of 89.25% in June 2017 final exams, as reported in ROTA intervention phase 1 annual report in June 2017, ROTA intervention phase 1. The Ghata schools are a successful model for high-quality regulated NFE education program in the context of the Government’s RACE strategy. The Ghata project is also innovative in its contextualization of the intervention emphasizing an assets-based approach and building sustainable and strategic partnerships with local stakeholders and communities to meet their needs. Structural design specifications that ensure child-friendly spaces necessary for child protection and conducive to creating quality learning environments.Close proximity of schools campuses to informal tented settlements in order to keep attendance rates high.Delivery of the Lebanese curriculum in English and Arabic language.Ghata schools provide quality NFE programs that address some of the key challenges refugee children face in accessing educational opportunities: The guiding principle of the project is to contextualize Ghata classrooms along with educational, nutritional, and psychosocial programs within the informal refugees’ landscape, and to empower Syrian teachers to lead the educational process. Accordingly, CCECS collaborated with the AUB departments of Education, Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management, Engineering and Architecture, and Nutrition – in partnership with the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs and the local NGO Kayany Foundation – to initiate the project entitled ‘’GHATA: Bringing Education to Informal Tented Settlements’’. On February 15, 2014, the Lebanese Ministry of Social Affairs issued a formal approval to use the Ghata model for educational purposes. In 2012, AUB’s Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) designed the Ghata (meaning “Cover” in Arabic) structure, to serve as a temporary shelter that ensures humane and decent living conditions during acute weather changes and over protracted stay.