Child Protection response for displaced children in Jebel Marra localities of Rokero, Golo and Nertiti in Central Darfur and Kutum in ND. This project is planned to target conflict affected girls and boys and their families in Jebel Marra localities of Rokero, Golo and Nertiti in Central Darfur and Kutum in North Darfur who have fled from the outbreak of violence in the JM area which started in Jan 2016. The JM areas lies in the center of the Darfur region, bordering the state divisions of Central, South and North Darfur. These areas are the only places in Darfur where an armed opposition groups maintain prolonged control over territory with minimum humanitarian organisations have had no access since 2011.
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 psychosocial support, prevention and response to the needs of child victims of Sexual and Gender Based violence (SGBV), Family Tracing and Reunification (FTR) for the Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC), as well as assistance to child victims of landmines.
To prevent and mitigate child protection risks in communities affected by conflict, SC will strengthen community based child protection mechanisms in their capacity to prevent and raise awareness around key child protection risks, such as family separation, gender based violence, psychosocial distress, 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. As part of SGBV (Sexual and Gender Based Violence) eradication programming, SC will engage with men and boys in gender focused prevention work, addressing root causes and changing social norms around gender relations and masculinity.
Gender power relations restricting women's and girls’ possibilities to participate were analyzed in programme activities as domestic workloads, social norms and/or threats of sexual violence restrict their mobility. 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 at the CFS, 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. It will also include using quotas to ensure equitable participation in the child clubs and CBCPN.
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. The project activities were trailered to cater for the needs of girls and boys between the age 5 and 17 years old, after conducting a thorough analysis to the power relation, gender dynamics and accessibility in the selected communities. Children and communities should be consulted to identify the appropriate locations for the construction of the CFSs.