Strengthening the Resilience of Conflict Affected Adolescent Boys and Girls in Camps, and Communities in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs. GOALPrime shall through this project reach out to a total of 7000 persons (children, adolescents and caregivers) with psychosocial support services, life-skills education and sensitization on Rights as well as build local capacity to provide these services in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs. 70% of the target shall be in IDPs camp and 30% in Host Communities of target locations. Breaking it down, this proposed project will concentrate on developing the capacity of 100 community volunteers who will be identified to deliver structured: age appropriate psycho-social support, recreational activities and life skill based psycho-social support services to conflict affected adolescent boys and girls in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs. GOALPrime shall also in collaboration with Clowns without Borders Sweden train 40 Facilitators on ToT for Facilitation of Performance Arts based amp Creative Arts based Psychosocial support and recreational activities. After the training of the 100 community volunteers at the LGA level, GOALPrime shall deploy the 50 best performing participants to engage directly with target beneficiaries over the project period. They shall be provided with monthly incentives as a motivation for commitment.The trained volunteers shall also use the UNICEF Adolescent kits for Expression and Innovation in Emergency and the iDEAL module to build the life-skills capacity of a minimum of 2100 adolescent boys and girls. GOALPrime shall also engage the trained community volunteers to deliver basic, quality, art based, creative and local context psychosocial support engagement and will reach another 2100 conflict affected boys and girls (under 10yrs) identified to be at risk across camps and communities in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs. This makes a total of 4200 children (2100 adolescent boys and girls age 10yrs to 17yrs and 2100 boys and girls age 3yrs – 9yrs). Children living with special needs shall also be reached as GOALPrime shall be intentional about targeting 50 children with special needs (children with disability) amongst our overall 4200 children target.

GOALPrime shall also reach 4000 caregivers with house level sensitization on child rights, GBV risk mitigation messaging, human rights and information on good parenting.

GOALPrime  in collaboration with government stakeholders and the child protection sub-sector will work towards strengthening the referral pathway for Child Protection in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs. GOALPrime shall also establish three community based child protection monitoring and advocacy desk in each of the target LGAs. Through the community based child protection monitoring and advocacy desk that will be established in the LGAs, child protection concerns shall be identified and GOALPrime shall be intentional about addressing the identified concerns directly and through revitalized partnership with all relevant community, humanitarian and government stakeholders operational in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs. 

The project also focuses on strengthening the capacity of existing Community Based Child Protection Mechanism (CBCPC) and create more if necessary and develop their capacities to be able to identify child protection needs/risks and respond accordingly and/or report such cases to the child protection monitoring desk that will be set up at the CFS in IDP camps and communities for response and preventive action.

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria will use her existing bugs bunny cartoon character strategy to continuously sensitize children, caregivers and the community and increase their knowledge on protection of boys and girls from GBV and on how to mitigate child protection risks in KalBalge and Damboa LGAs.