Protecting vulnerable women and children through community-based protection program including Child Protection and Gender-based Violence GBV in Teftnaz, Afrin and Ain Al Arab. The main goal of this project is to provide accessible protection and  GBV live-saving services for affected people in Teftnaz, Afrin and Ain Al Arab areas (host and IDPs), and encourage them to have their roles and leadership in the target communities.
This project will be implemented through two humanitarian partners, This is my Life TML in Teftnaz, and Bihar Relief Organisation (BAHAR Dernegi) BRO in Afrin and Ain Al Arab areas by providing protection activities to be implemented through Women and Girls Community Centres WGCCs, safe spaces and out-reach activities.
The main aim of this project is to address lack of accessibility to GBV and CP related services by providing Child Protection CP and GBV in Teftnaz within 4 communities (Shallakh, Ketyan, Talhiyeh and Elnaasan) through TML. The WGCC of TML will be situated in Ketyan. In addition, the project, and through BRO, will aim to provide only GBV component and related PSS services in Afrin and Ain Al Arab cities, Roubar and Al Shahba camps, Sharan, deir Siwan and Bulbul communities (total 7 communities that all are controlled by SDF) in an integration manner with fixed and mobile health services. BRO will support 2 existed WGCCs and safe spaces in Afrin and Ain Al Arab cities, implement outreach activities in Sharran, Deir Siwan and Bulbul with mobile health services, and establish two safe spaces for women and girls in Roubar and Shahba camps.
BRO will aim to integrate its ongoing health activities with GBV activities
The project will focus on specific intervention approach relying on prevention, response and referral according to Turkey protection cluster guidelines.
The importance of this project lied behind the necessity to activate and sustain the protection services provided by BRO in Afrin and Ain Al Arab and establish new protection services for affected vulnerable groups in Teftnaz.
To ease the access of target people to the services, community-based approach will be additional method of implementation through outreach teams, bearing in mind that BRO will integrate GBV services with health services provided by BRO in Afrin and in Ain Al Arab
BRO and TML will provide training sessions at the beginning of the project for the staff
TML will target specific locations where they have access to implement community-based CP and GBV activities in Teftnaz sub-district since there no response in those communities
While BRO will deploy teams of community health workers in Afrin and Kobani, This Is My Life will train and deploy 1 outreach team consisting of 2 PSS workers, 1 case counsellor, 1 animator and 1 team leader for each team. Those teams will deliver semi-structured PSS and child protection awareness in schools, collective centres and communities. This Is My Life will use the CP sub-cluster SOPs and referral pathway for case management as well as the UNICEF IEC materials for PSS targeting children, parents, caregivers and community stakeholders such as religious leaders, local council members, teachers, etc
TML has its offices in Marrat Masren and Hazzano in Idleb governorate, and will aim to conduct the project at target areas. TML will implement the project in the mentioned areas due to the confirmed needs in term of protection for women and children taking into account the high density of IDPs within the targeted areas. In addition, BRO has its offices in Afrin and Ain Al Arab centres and runs protection activities that need to be supported and sustained
TML and BRO staff will be trained on GBV and related PSS according to protection cluster guidelines. TML team will receive training on CP as well. Additionally, BRO health and protection staff will receive training on Clinical Management of Rape CMR
BRO and TML have their trained staff which is based in Turkey and able to provide protection training sessions for the staff in Syria. TML and BRO will coordinate with protection cluster and its sub-clusters to attend any training throughout the project per