Child Protection Program
Goal: Good governance practice towards increased state accountability to CRC in CRF target areas developed and modelled.
KEY INTERVENTIONS
Corporal Punishment
- Introducing public education, awareness raising and social mobilization campaigns against the harmful effects of corporal punishment
- Introducing and enforcing positive discipline practices to avoid corporal punishment in the target schools
- Working with relevant institutions to take necessary measures combatting violence against children in communities
Child Labour
- Conducting special research on labour-related drop-out at CRF target schools
- Working closely with provincial and local authorities to address root causes of child labour
- Establishing monitoring network at community level on migration
- Sensitizing local authorities, communities and parents on consequences of child labour
- Collaborating and strengthening capacity of local authorities and CC in dealing with issues of child labour with parents who force their children to work, to explore other alternatives
- Supporting vocational/skill training program for drop-out or out of school children and youth; and facilitating their decent work opportunities or income generation activities
Disaster Risk Reduction – Safe Schools
- Cooperating with MoEYS to mainstream Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) concept into the local education system
- Advocating and supporting MoEYS to develop and enforce policy and guidelines in response to DRR
- Building capacity of target schools and communities on DRR
- Supporting and equipping target schools to effectively enhance DRR
- Supporting and strengthening child-centred DRR in the target schools
Migration and Trafficking
- Introducing public education, awareness-raising and social mobilization campaigns against the harmful effects of migration and trafficking
- Educating primary and secondary school children on self- prevention against trafficking and sexual abuse, exploitation and on safe migration
- Supporting school initiatives in actions to prevent and protect children from trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation in schools and surrounding communities
- Identifying appropriate referral system for effective protection, intervention and integration
- Building National and Regional network with other NGOs working in the areas.