Protection to the  conflict affected communities in Chinaksen and TuliGuled woredas of the Oromia and Somali regions Due to multiple effects, More than 23 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia.Ogoing armed conflict intercommunal violence contribute the major key factors especially in Oromiya and Somali region. The number of Internally displaced persons in ethiopia increased from 3.2m in 2018 to 4.3m in late2021. An alarming 56 per cent of woredas (220 out of 395) hostig IDPs face exreme humanitarian conditions, with many of these woredas located in Orormiya (64), Somali (62) and Tigray (39).

This project aims to address the protection needs of conflict induced  affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) in two Woredas of Oromia region and Somali through facilitating protection monitoring and capacity building support by protection teams, establishing children and women friendly inclusive spaces in IDP sites, and providing capacity building support on gender, age and disability mainstreaming for agencies granted under EHF scheme. The project will establish one protection Teams operating in two selected Woredas.The team will be composed of Coordinator, protection expert, CP/GBV expert, Peace building expert,Community Facilitators, and a representative from Woreda women and children affairs office) to monitor the protection situation of IDPs and affected host communities. These protection teams will also be sensitized on disability and PSEA mainstreaming before initiating their work in the field. The protection team will undertake all-inclusive protection monitoring, service mapping and referral pathways, identification and response to community-level protection concerns, referral and response to individual protection cases, and cluster reporting. The protection team will operate in two Hotspot Woredas: Cinaksen from Oromia Region, East Hararghe zone , and Tuliguled  Fafan Zone Somali region.

The project will also establish children and women friendly inclusive safe spaces equipped with trained protection workers amp CP/GBV community workers, co-located in temporary health centers or temporary learning centers in IDP sites. The children and women friendly inclusive spaces will provide community based services in the field particularly targeting children/women vulnerable to protection risks including people with disabilities and older persons : i) CP/GBV direct service delivery including community and family support, focused non-specialized socio-emotional support aiming at improving coping mechanisms of vulnerable persons and enhancing community-based level protection strategies ii) Ensuring the participation of the affected community to improve CP/GBV situation and cash assistance for survivors iii) Coordination with other humanitarian actors to enhance the referral pathways and thus to provide a holistic response (GBV, CP, health actors etc.) iv) referrals and linkages to the Children and women’s spaces v) providing capacity building support. Children and Women’s friendly inclusive spaces will be established in Chinaksen  Woreda in East Hararghe zone of Oromia region and Tuliguled woreda Fafan Zone of Somali region where Lutheran world Federation have a very strong presence. Awareness raising activities are also integrated with the children and women friendly inclusive spaces service provision including IEC materials distribution and public event organization (during 16 days of activism and international women’s day). 

The project will support gender, age and disability capacity building training for both right holders and duty bearers. The team will build gender in emergencies mainstreaming capacity, specific needs with a dedicated focus on PSEA and disability and their needs.

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