To protect girls and boys affected by conflict in Abu Kershola, South Kordufan, through quality preventative and remedial interventions This project is planned to target conflict affected girls and boys and their families in Abu Kershola locality in South Kordufan who have been exposed to the risks of family separation, Sexual Gender-based Violence (SGBV) , mine risk, psychological distress, and child labor were reported in all the assessed locations. During May and June 2019, twelve cases of SGBV were reported in Umbrembeita, Khor Aldaleeb and Alfait Um Abdalla villages. Women were attacked as they fetched water, collected firewood or worked the fields. Some 13 cases of separated children were reported in Alfait Um Abdalla village. Some of those children had been placed in alternative families where immediate family members could not be traced. Presence of UXO and ERWs was reported in Umbrembeita, Alfarsha and Kaleng. This limits access to land for farming.
This will be done through the delivery of quality preventative and remedial interventions to improve response to emergency humanitarian child protection needs in communities affected by conflict. Save the Children (SC) will ensure the provision of timely and rights based child protection services to the most deprived and marginalized girls and boys. These services will include Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) for the Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC), prevention and response to the needs of child victims of Sexual and Gender Based violence (SGBV), vocational training, support services, and life skills training for extremely vulnerable children and adolescents affected by conflict, as well as assistance to child victims of landmines. Although the number of identified of UASC is relatively low, 13, we expect to identify more children. To prevent and mitigate child protection risks in communities affected by conflict, SC will strengthen capacity of social workers, teachers, law-enforcement staff, and to prevent and raise awareness around key child protection risks, such as family separation, sexual gender based violence, and landmines. SC will invest in capacity building of CP Sub-sector members including the National Council on for Child Welfare and other SC humanitarian partners to ensure the quality of child protection interventions. In order to reinforce the resilience of communities and strengthen capacity of child protection institutions, SC will support community based child protection mechanisms and civil society organisations to disseminate information on relevant services and contribute to advocacy and the referral of child protection cases. Accordingly, gender sensitive measures will be adopted to mitigate these programmatic risks including adapting schedules and meeting venues to ensure equitable participation, using single sex discussion groups, promoting a girl-friendly space once a week to ensure that adolescent girls are able to participate, adapting case management to the different types of violence faced by boys and girls. To mainstream gender in this project, the IASC Guidelines for integrating Gender-based Violence interventions in Humanitarian Settings were adopted as follows: there will be a reference document for ensuring quality in planning and coordination and staff will be trained on the guidelines. A SGBV screening of any alternative care facilities to be used for UASC will also be included as a first measure.