Increasing Access to Community-based Integrated Protection Services to Vulnerable children, women and their families in Adamawa and Yobe State. ltpgtltbrgtGrow strong foundation aims to prevent and mitigate protection risks arising from limited access to basic services during the lean season  through integrated programing in protection , Gender-based violence , child protection and humanitarian mine action with collaboration of Wash, Health , livelihood and  Nutrition  partners. GSF proposed 6-month project design to provide child protection and GBV case management and basic PSS to UASC and other vulnerable children, established and strengthen community based protection networks and CBM committees, provide direct support to vulnerable families and  people displaced by flood or affected by the rain season especially children and provide critical Information on explosive ordinance risk education . ltbrgtThe activities are designed to reach three high-priority LGAs of Damaturu in Yobe state Yola South and the hard to reach Madali LGA in Adamawa state. The intervention seeks to target  51,030 people direct beneficiaries across Adamawa and Yobe states with a focus on women and girls constituting 70% of the targets. GSF will also give priority to the PLWD as they will constitute 15% of the targets while 25% will be men and boys. Overall, the project will target 40% 20,412 people in  Damaturu Yobe state and  60% 30,618 in Adamawa state covering Madagali and Yola South. with MHPSS and with integrated case management services.ltbrgtThe project objective is enhancing multi-sectoral protection services to safeguard the most vulnerable people particularly women and children in Adamawa and Yobe state. the project will drastically decrease the threat of gender-based violence andprovide  legal counseling  and facilitate access to justice issues that consistently arise during the rainy session including violence against children and women, provide EORE risk education for women who are mostly in search of firewood,  farming communities who engaged in farming during the lean session and scrap metal collectors. GSF will engage government workers from NIMC and NPC to provide beneficiaries, children, and women with civil documentation including national identity cards, and birth registration certificates to children,  GSF will engage community structures and enlighten them in the project-integrated programming, and school children during assemblies and other school gatherings, women and adolescent clubs shall be established to allow girls and women to express their concern and mitigate with the help of GSF. ltbrgtThe project will guarantee equitable access to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), Child Protection (CP)protection, Mine Action services, and other protection service for women and girls, including those with disabilities, through an inclusive approach. GSF will collaborate with other sectors, such as education, nutrition, food security, and early recovery  livelihood, to conduct training on the centrality of protection and cross-sectoral cooperation. This effort aims to establish a clear referral pathway for services at the LGA level.ltbrgtFurthermore, 400 ( 250 UASC and 150 other vulnerable children) will be supported through direct CP 400 and GBV 400 case management support to 400 children, including multi-sector referral support to 300 children, direct services provision include: - placement on alternative care for family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) of unaccompanied children (UASC) by trained caseworker under the supervision of Case management supervisor, collaborate with MHPSS partners to provide focussed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) by trained clinical psychologist. To ensure CP comprehensively, referral pathways and services will be mapped out (if not already available) and strengthened through advocacy and coordination with the sectors at the LGA and state level.ltbrgt300 caregivers will be supported with start-ups grants for income-generating activities and trained on positive parenting skills. By including both existing and standby foster parent in this support training to ensure projects  contextingltbrgtlt/pgt