Enabling access to specialized child protection services to children at heightened protection risks, and particularly child labour and child marriage, and strengthen Child Protection systems in Karack,  Irbid and Marfraq Governorate The project aligns with the allocation strategy and its objective to mitigate and respond to the impact of the Syria crisis in Jordan, with a specific attention to save life and alleviate suffering and increasing access to humanitarian assistance for vulnerable people and those with specific needs. Coherently, the project will aim at filling the gaps in the response to the needs of children at risk, and particularly children at risk of or faced with child labour situations (including worse forms of child labour and from both rural and urban areas), child marriage and other primary concerns. Under the present project, Tdh will target the areas of Irbid, Marfraq and Karack governorates, featured by high prevalence of refugee and vulnerable host community’s households, limited availability of services compared to the needs, increasing prevalence of negative coping strategies adopted by families to cope socio-economic strains and social norms, including child labour and child marriage. 

As result of the action, 1773 individuals (629 girls, 626 boys, 310 women and 208 men) will directly benefit from the project intervention for a total of 2041 provided services. Among them, 533 individuals from the Syrian (and other nationalities) Refugee community (440 girls, 438 boys, 217 women and 145 men) and 533 from host community (189 girls, 188 boys, 93 women and 63 men). 

The project design responds to the needs assessed during dedicated needs assessment and build up on Tdh existing program and capacity in the three areas of intervention The project strategically pursues a double-folded approach that aims at responding to priority needs of children and groups exposed to or facing protection concerns, while working on strengthening Child Protection (CP) systems in Jordan. . 

The expected results of the actions are: 
I) Primary protection needs of children are met, children and most vulnerable families access to specialized services adequate to their need: 240 children, 120 girls and 120 boys will benefit from Child Protection Case Management (CM) processes in Karack, Irbid and Marfraq.
II) Protective factors at individual, family and community level are enabled, steering the capacity of the socio-ecological environment of the children to establish and maintain protection mechanisms, focusing on mechanisms to protect children from child labor and child marriage. 690 individuals (14 men, 16 women, 	330 boys and 330 girls will access to MHPSS services and acquire skills to strengthen their resilience and subjective wellbeing. 
III) Voice and perspective of children are empowered, through the establishment of a child-led governance mechanism and advocacy in three governorates. The three Children Advisory committees will give visibility to children’s points of view on issues affecting their protection and wellbeing, participate to the governance of the project and consolidate key messages for key stakeholders including duty bearers. 
IV) The CP system is strengthened, and better equipped to respond to the intertwined dynamics affecting the protection of children’s rights, with a focus on protection child labourers and enabling gender justice for children in Jordan. 64 formal and informal child protection actors from the Child labour protection system and the child marriage protection system ( 33 me and 31 women) are engaged into policy changing and best practices identification.