Prevention, Identification and Response to the Protection concerns among the vulnerable and at risk children across Baghlan, Daykundi, Faryab and Urozgan Provinces Children in Crisis in partnership with Social Assistance for Development of Afghanistan (SADA) will provide child protection assistance to over 20,096 children across Baghlan (Burka, Baghlan e Jadid, Dahan e Ghori, Nahrin and Doshi), Daykundi (Khidir, Miramor and Shahristan), Faryab (Shirin Tagab, Maimana, Qaisar, and Kohistan) and Urozgan (Khas Urozgan, Shahid Hasas, Chora, and Gizab) provinces. The project will provide protection services to a total of 11,424 persons (2720 men, 2240 women, 2816 boys and 3648 girls) through the following services: 1. A total of 160 unaccompanied and separated children including 112 boys and 48 girls will be identified and reunified with the care givers, 2. additional 496 separated children will receive alternative care at transit centers or orphanages, and will also receive protection kits 3. a total of 360 project participants will be trained on child rights, illegal migration, PSEA and child protection concerns such as GBV, early marriage out of which 80 civil society members and NGO staff will be trained on community based child protection and referral mechanism, PSEA , and child rights. 4. The project will also establish 80 CBPCs, and all members (560) will be trained on child protection monitoring and referral mechanism. 5. additional 112 children will benefit from child protection case management and referral services. 6. and lastly 6000 individuals will benefit from the MHPSS services across all target districts.
All the districts are targeted on the bases of the needs and vulnerability of the affected population. These districts are identified at high priority by the ICCT at their recent priority mapping.
Children in Crisis will directly implement the project in Baghlan and Daykundi province while in partnership with SADA in Urozgan and Faryab provinces. Children in Crisis has strong presence across all target districts within Baghlan and Daykundi and currently implements Child Protection and Education projects in these districts. The current project will complement the ongoing assistance though provision of additional services for the children and their care givers. SADA has presence in Faryab and Urozgan currently implements community-based education services to children in both provinces. The partnership will enable Children in Crisis to reach higher number of vulnerable children while ensures effective and rapid humanitarian assistance in line with the CPAOR guidelines and AHF first standard allocation priorities.
The project will mainstream gender and protection across the project cycle, which includes identification of different needs boys, girls, men and women and designing appropriate activities, and also identification and analysis of all the protection risks and designing appropriate mitigation measures to mitigate the risk to the project participants. The project will recruit appropriate number of female staff to safely access women and girls and will monitor the impact of the action on different groups of the project participants. Accountability to affected population would be ensured through sharing information and providing reporting channels to the project participants for sharing any concern regarding the project and project staff with CRM focal points. All the complaints would be dealt with in a timely manner and a response would be provided with the project participants.