Strengthen protection for the most vulnerable groups of women and girls by providing multi-sectoral life-saving services, enhancing access to integrated protection services and economic empowerment for IDPs and host communities in Al-Khukhah district, Hodeida Governorate. The project aims to improve the prevention of VAW/G through changes in behavior, practices, and attitudes through provide first-line protection responses and live-saving support to the most vulnerable women, men, boys, and girls of IDPs and host communities by ensuring access to a wide variety of services and program that cater to women and girls, and expand services in the exist WGSSs The project aims to Improved prevention of VAW/, Alhodeidah governorate. 

FHD is running a WGSS in Al Khukhah district, to provide life savings multi-sectoral prevention and response services to GBV Survivors since 2020 up to now funded by UNFPA with the partnership of the Human Access Organization. The project provides protection services that are provided through WGSS including psycho-social and legal support, cash assistance, livelihood training, awareness rising through the community committees and men2men networks, and people with special needs and referral of critical cases to relevant services providers in order to prevent, mitigate or address protection needs and risks to families in need with basic respect and dignity.

The current WGSS in Al Khukhah districts are suffering from a shortage and lost funds by end of Dec 2022 from UNFPA based on a needs assessment that comes to assess the growing needs in protection in response to the OCHA reserved call established in Jan 2023, with the aim of expanding the services provided through the WGSS to include larger numbers of women, men, boys and girls in the targeted areas and expand its services to reach more beneficiaries at the neighboring areas and IDPs comps in the district and other close areas which are prevented from GBV services through the mobile team that consists of (1 case management, 2 social specialist, and the training officer). The proposed protection is providing supportive services and programs that will be provided through WGSS which are Case Management services for 300 women and girls from the most vulnerable, referral to specialized protection services, and provide cash assistance for 1200 women and girls to get save access to any needed lifesaving services, Comprehensive services for women and girls of GBV survivors for 5450 cases will receive psychosocial support/psychological first aid,200 women and girls will benefit from legal support in issue their official papers,160 women and girls will benefit from life skills and livelihood training and start-up grant. Literacy courses for 30 women and girls including the allowance of the trainees. One community committee and one men2men network will activate for advocacy purposes in the targeted area, 10,420 women, men, boys, and girls that benefit from community awareness sessions conducted by community committees in order to prevent, mitigate or address protection needs and risks in Al Khukhah  district. and neighboring areas from IDPs communities and 30% of them from host communities 

Besides that FHD will implement some additional activities in the community such as Conducting one open dialogue in each targeted area with key community leaders and local authorities to discuss their views on key GBV issues (domestic violence, early marriage, enforce marriage, sexual harassment, etc) as well as GBV prevention, response. And 2 bazaars will be organized, in which the women will display, promote and sell their products. The relevant and interested businessmen and women will be invited to attend the bazaar and be linked with the target women. With some celebrating activities during 16 days of activism against GBV or women's day.

The total period for implementing these activities will be 12 months. PDM and other monitoring and evaluation activities will be conducted by 3 assessments to assist the satisfaction of beneficiaries for the services provided. FHD has the full capacity to carry out these activities through its offices.