Providing integrated lifesaving Gender Based Violence response and prevention assistance to most vulnerable new arriving women and girls in MMC LGA, Borno State. Jireh Doo Foundation (JDF) operating as a single and independent entity is through this project is proposing to provide an integrated lifesaving gender based violence response and prevention assistance to most vulnerable women and girls in MMC targeting 6300 beneficiaries. The project will establish and operate one women and girls’ safe space (WGSS) in the Dalori 2 IDP camp. Through this safe space, women and girls will be provided with individualized life-saving services such as psychosocial support, group therapy, group and individual counseling, psychological first aid and case management services in a safe and conducive environment to address CSRV and other critical cases. A core of the project will be engagement with community and camp structures with a view to strengthen and mainstream into existing structures or establish where absent specific coordination and referral mechanisms to identify and address incidents of GBV within and around the camp. Also and very importantly, the project will provide the much needed opportunities for women and adolescent girls to receive peer support in a friendly environment, and also facilitate access to other services.
The project will also procure and distribute critical dignity kits to women and girls. The project through volunteers  whom will be recruited and trained from persons living in camp who will support in providing gender-sensitive hygiene promotion targeting women and girls.
In addition, the project will implement a sexual reproductive health component that will be targeted at women of child bearing age. JDF will recruit and work through community volunteers to deliver SRH messaging and other services in the community using a cohort style. The project will adapt SRH manual and other tools from the UNFPA and will work closely with technical officers of the GBV sub-cluster as well as UNFPA to implement this component. The women and girls safe space will provide an avenue for confidential and SRH services. A confidential GBV help line will also be implemented. JDF has already received training from the Norwegian Church Aid on the implementation of this initiative and JDF will deploy this skill for achieving the objectives of the project.
The project will implement a robust community education and sensitization component led by very skilled social and outreach workers aimed at increasing knowledge around GBV issues, generate concern and support for GBV survivors and change behavior. The community education and sensitization will target 3 broad categories of the population with distinct messages. 1. GBV survivors will be targeted with messaging to provide information and knowledge on the availability of service, knowledge on the right to report and seek redress and to provide information and knowledge on where to access needed services. 2. Perpetrators will be targeted with messaging that seek to provide information on consequence of gender based and other forms of violence, while  3.The general public will be provided with information to generate concern and support for GBV survivors and issues. The project proposes to fully participate in the 16 days of activism led by the GBV sub sector by implementing camp and non-camp based activities.