Scaling up the provision of critical Child Protection services in Emergencies to 11 900 conflict affected children boys and girls, men and women in Southern Unity by 28 February 2019 In response to the growing humanitarian crisis in Southern Unity, UNIDOR is proposing to enhance the provision of critical child protection services to 11,900 vulnerable populations in Southern Unity, covering Koch, Leer and Mayendit. These areas were selected based on the needs assessment and the fact that UNIDOR already has running projects in the areas. 

The proposed six months’ emergency intervention is designed to :i) support  extremely vulnerable, children including unaccompanied and separated children through individual case management ii)  identify and register unaccompanied and separated children and ensuring that they are reunified with their parents/caregivers ii)provide psycho social support to conflict distressed children through structured gender disaggregated games and activities at child friendly spaces, community based and school based PSS. iii)Raising awareness on child protection risks on landmines and ERWs in schools and communities and iv) integrating child protection monitoring and mainstreaming into the protection intervention to improve the overall context analysis to respond to the identified needs and enhancing the understanding and analysis among humanitarian actors on the child protection context and needs. 

UNIDOR will also integrate child protection into the already existing UNIDO Nutrition, WASH,FSL and Health programs in Leer, Mayendit and Koch counties. The already existing Community Based Child Protection Networks (CBCPN) will be trained to provide a platform for the identification of and response to child protection concerns, the development of community-based mitigation plan, prevention of separation  messaging on FTR, forced recruitment , early marriage and child protection surveillance mechanism. Some CBCPN In addition, the CBCPN will identify and refer vulnerable children in need of individual support. UNIDO will also operate three safe healing and learning spaces for children that facilitate their recovery, restore a sense of normalcy, and promote their cognitive, physical, social and emotional development and provide parenting support.

Youth engagement to provide peer support, recreational activities and referrals to FSL programming will also serve as an entry point to develop future interventions with Children Associated with Armed Groups and Armed Forces. An ongoing monitoring and reporting of grave violations and collaboration with local authorities will be needed to prevent children from being recruited into the armed forces and armed groups.
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Through the child protection program, UNIDOR intends to work with the Nutrition program and teams to identify unaccompanied and separated children including children living within vulnerable families that affect their care and nutritional well being and refer them for Nutrition screening and support. UNIDOR Nutrition team will then provide support the identified children to ensure continuity of care and support at home within the family setting. The CP team will provide follow up support to malnourished children receiving support within the family environment. Complementary funding supports over 150 caregivers in providing appropriate, positive care for children. This project will also support population within the communities, host and IDPs with awareness messages and other community level support services such as WASH, Health and food through static and community outreach.