Prevention and response to violence against children through specialized child protection service delivery, and capacity strengthening at the family-, community-, district- and sub-national level. Terre des hommes (Tdh) and Sabe'a Sanabul Organization for Relief amp Development (SSORD) aim to provide quality, age- and gender-responsive and life-saving child protection (CP) services to out-of-camp (OOC) Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and returnee children and adolescents at-risk of or victims of abuse, neglect or exploitation, including children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG). Simultaneously, the project will strengthen community-based CP interventions and capacity of the family, community, district, and sub-national level to improve the protective environment of children.  The activities will respond to the immediate protection concerns of children, and build capacity to prevent or respond to CP risks at the district and community level.  These activities, under two Outputs, will focus on direct service provision and capacity strengthening, respectively:

Output 1.1:
1.	Comprehensive case management services to 1,200 children and adolescents, including emergency cash transfers in critical situations, of which includes CAAFAG reintegration support to 128 children and adolescents
2.	Referrals to specialized services (mental health, GBV, life skills and other) to 960 returnee children and adolescents
3.	Assistance to access civil documentation to 280 returnees
4.	Legal assistance through lawyers to 100 child returnees (parents/caregivers may also be supported through the process)
5.	Structured psychosocial support (PSS) to 2,320 children and adolescents

Output 1.2:
1.	Parenting programs/sessions, including positive parenting sessions to 1,130 men and women
2.	Community-based CP trainings to 180 men and women who are part of community-based child protection committees
3.	Capacity building of local government (i.e., DoLSA and MoLSA), including 70 men and women, and roll-out of the Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS+) to 125 men and women, for a total of 195 trained
4.	Strengthening of technical and institutional capacity of SSORD personnel, including 132 men and women
5.	CP community outreach and awareness raising to 12,323 out-of-camp IDPs and returnees 

The consortium seeks to leverage the ongoing partnership between Tdh and SSORD across multiple donor-funded projects across Iraq, including the current IHF-funded project in four districts closing end of August 2022.  This partnership allows for quality implementation, strong operational presence, access to zones of intervention and robust working relationships with national authorities and communities in the four districts with existing IHF-funded project activities, as well as expansion to three other districts where Tdh and SSORD have history, presence or programming. 

Contributing to the IHF 2022 First Standard Allocation and CP Sub-cluster’s priorities, Tdh and SSORD proposes to implement eight months of CP activities in Al-Fallujah, Ramadi, Al-Hawiga (Hawiga Center (Al-Nida neighborhood, Al-Thawra neighborhood, Al-Askari neighborhood) Al-Abaasi Center, Shmit village, Arassa village), Al-Baaj, Al-Hatra, Balad and Tooz Khurmato. The project will target OOC IDPs and returnees, including recent returnees from Al-Howl Camp in areas with significant response gaps having the highest severity scale.  The assistance will reach 18,820 individuals, comprising of 17,250 returnees and 1,570 out-of-camp IDPs. The project will maintain the capacity to respond to needs arising from camp closures, movement of IDPs and returnees from Al-Howl Camp in Northeast Syria. 

Tdh will oversee the proposed project to ensure activities between Tdh and SSORD are harmonized and implemented with high quality. Tdh will work with SSORD to build upon the capacity strengthening plan with continued and expanded technical capacity (i.e., for CPIMS+), and an enhanced focus on operational and organizational needs.