UNICEF Child Protection Zimbabwe (CPF) III 2023 -2026 UNICEF Child Protection (CPF) III Zimbabwe 2023 -2026 ”Programmet strävar efter att skydda de grundläggande rättigheterna för de mest sårbara barnen i Zimbabwe. Programmet tillämpar en mångdimensionell ansats till barns utsatthet genom att stärka barnskyddssystem som kan leverera samordnade kvalitetstjänster som förebygger och reagerar på våld mot barn.” The main purpose of CPF III is to contribute to the UNICEF Country Programme Document (CPD) 2022- 2026  which is  aimed at contributing to sustainable socioeconomic development that provides all children, including adolescents, with opportunities to fulfill their potential, lead a healthy life, access quality learning and protection and meaningfully participate in society is to strengthen and maintain the functionality of the child protection system especially in the face of limited fiscal resources from the State. In particular the CPF III will contribute to the realization of the Child Protection programme outcome that seeks to ensure that: by 2026, children, adolescents and young people are better protected from violence, abuse and exploitation, are registered in a timely manner and benefit from improved prevention and response systems in development and humanitarian settings.

In order to achieve this outcome, realise this vision, the CPF III project will provide support across four Result Areas. These are described below.

Result Area 1.
Access to child protection and welfare services including birth registration for the most vulnerable children through the National Case Management System. UNICEF will support protection and welfare response interventions to address violence against girls, boys and women in 10 high priority CP districts. It will also ensure that all children and adolescents, including those most vulnerable, have access to birth registration services.

Result area 2. 
Prevention of VAC and GBV through interventions that address harmful practices, social and gender norms and behavioural drivers of violence. The focus of this result area is to ensure that: Communities, caregivers, children, adolescents and young people have the information, knowledge and skills that address harmful social and gender norms, promote positive care giving and early detection and response of protection risks. 

Result area 3.
Access to child-friendly justice system and services

Under this result area, UNICEF will support the Government to implement its child-related justice delivery commitments,  through strengthening of relevant institutions, decentralizing institutions for justice delivery including the Legal Aid Directorate and the courts, improving access to justice for vulnerable people including women, children and persons with disabilities, aligning laws to the Constitution, and establishing integrated electronic case management system, among others.

Result area 4. 
Policy, legal and regulatory framework improvements and reform, coordination and institutional capacity strengthening. 

The focus of this result area is to ensure that: An effective child protection and GBV legal, regulatory and policy framework is in place to prevent and respond to child protection and GBV risks, and institutional capacity to enforce it. The CPF III will contribute to the realization of the Child Protection programme outcome that seeks to ensure that: by 2026, children, adolescents and young people are better protected from violence, abuse and exploitation, are registered in a timely manner and benefit from improved prevention and response systems in development and humanitarian settings.

Access to child protection and welfare services including birth registration for the most vulnerable children through the National Case Management System

Prevention of VAC and GBV through interventions that address harmful practices, social and gender norms and behavioural drivers of violence.

Access to child-friendly justice system and services

Policy, legal and regulatory framework improvements and reform, coordination and institutional capacity strengthening