Cameroon Joint Response 2019 SUMMARY
This project targets 10,000 individuals through an integrated Protection & WASH program. Target is the people most vulnerable and affected by the conflict. The aim is  to provide protection from violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation and provide access to services including WASH at community level.
The skills of the adolescents are built. Parents, caregivers and other community members are supported to protect children. Capacity building is done with the Ministry of Social Welfare. Services to prevent children from violence, abuse, neglect, enrollment and exploitation are provided. Also, 1,500 hygiene kits will be delivered to adolescent girls & boys and WASH facilities will be rehabilitated by Plan. "Since 2016, political and social instability, exacerbated by sporadic violence, impacted negatively the life of the civilian population of Cameroon’s South West & North West Regions. As a result, more than 440,000 persons have been displaced. Fundamentally a protection crisis, children are the first affected, their wellbeing highly impacted by the violence surrounding them. Close to 3,700 unaccompanied or separated children need urgent psycho-social care and reunification with their families. Displacements, human rights & children rights violations are frequent as well as rupture of community networks. The Child Protection Area of Responsibility was activated in October, along with activation of other clusters focusing on 4 different pillars: prevention of further abuse; response to children victims of abuse; capacity building of local actors and communities on child protection; advocacy and multisector collaboration on child protection. This proposal contributes to the prevention and response to these critical child protection concerns in NW/SW.

Reports of the rapid needs assessment conducted in March 2018 highlighted the ongoing CPiE critical needs are further exacerbated by huge WASH gaps; water supply systems and household toilets are over capacitated particularly in Meme, Mezam and Momo divisions where IDP are settling. Living in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions has increased the risk of water-borne diseases, to which children are most vulnerable. 90% of  community structures such as Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) and schools do not have a water distribution point or latrine. Adolescents girls are facing challenges due to this absence of facilities for a.o. menstrual Hygiene management (MHM) and often leave CFS to simply use latrine facilities, which leaves them vulnerable to GBV. Support in alleviating the needs of the most vulnerable populations and building the response capacity is needed by the NGO community as the state has limited access to NW/SW." Plan's intervention will target 10,000 individuals through an integrated Protection & WASH program. We will target girls and boys, and other vulnerable community members, with specific attention to adolescents (10-17) who are the most vulnerable and affected by the conflict, aiming to provide protection from violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation and access to services including WASH.
Under Protection, the program will focus on both prevention and response to identified CPIE gaps by establishing and strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms (Child Protection Committees, Adolescents Clubs, Child Rights Clubs, Foster families and CFS Animators) and building the skills of the adolescents themselves, as well as the parents, caregivers and other community members to effectively care and protect children (Adolescents Clubs and peer to peer awareness raising sessions). Capacity building will be done hand in hand with the Ministry of Social Welfare 
Children, especially UASC, child GBV survivors and other vulnerable or at risk children and their families will also be provided access to appropriate and quality services to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, neglect, enrolment and exploitation in line with minimum standards. The services will be based on provision of psychosocial support in CFS and case management procedures and will include among other services FTR, alternative care, psychosocial support and other non-structured focused PSS; they will be coordinated with the Ministry of Social Welfare through a functional referral mechanism. 1,500 dignity & hygiene kits will be delivered to adolescent girls & boys as well as households kits to 4,500 individuals, Awareness raising, 10,000 people will participate in awareness raising activities in the 15 CFSs where WASH facilities will be rehabilitated by Plan." "We are targeting the most vulnerable children severely affected by the conflict including CAFAAGS, displaced, unaccompanied minors and separated children as well as vulnerable young girls/adolescents and survivors of GBV. Special attention shall be paid to children and young persons, indigenous groups (Mbororo), persons with disabilities, female headed households and girls who are more vulnerable in situation of crisis. 
Plan will programme on the basis of physical, social and personal access for girls, boys, women and men. For example, we will ensure sites are safe and accessible for all through a number of gender- and culture-sensitive strategies (e.g. gender segregated queuing and latrines). Plan will also conduct house-to-house hygiene promotion with teams consisting of one male and one female community mobiliser, helping reach the hardest to access, who are often the most vulnerable – particularly those with limited mobility and those with restricted freedom of movement." "Plan Int. Cameroon integrates considerations of power distribution between women, men, girls and boys, as well as dependent on factors such as race, class, ethnicity, ability, language, sexual orientation, and gender identity within the development and implementation of all projects. The program will be supported by a gender officer and will fully adhere to the DRA PSEA protocol through extensive CRM.
A specific focus will be on child safeguarding, which is why a child safeguarding focal point will be appointed and trained to deal sensitively with any child safeguarding complaints and issues. The project will also involve the formation and training of CBCPMs, consisting of local volunteers that will monitor and report issues of child protection within their communities. Adolescent groups will also be established and they will design and conduct awareness raising activities on CP within their communities. 
Plan will establish in collaboration with boys and girls and community members, feedback and  complain mechanisms in project communities. Plan will ensure that the mechanisms established at community level are safe, transparent, appropriate and accessible to all. Staff will be trained to manage the feedback mechanisms and ensure that all complains received are responded to in an appropriate and timely manner and results given back to the communities. Moreover, Post Distribution Monitoring will include questions on project information, satisfaction and staff behavior."