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Strengthening Child protection Community Based Structures Project
Wednesday December 11, 2013 - 11:51:36
![]() Child protection trainings were conducted for 90 CPC members, and 200 school and madarasa teachers. The training participants learned more about children’s basic rights and how to identify child protection concerns. The training also provided the participants the knowledge and skills to address child protection issues. The CPAs/CPCs performed public awareness on
child rights and promotion of community approaches to protection of children in
the 10 districts. The awareness raising sessions were attended by 2, 238people, of which 374 were children (see Annex 1). The rest of the
participants were from different community groups including religious
leaders, teachers, FGM practitioners, social workers, women and youth groups. The CPA/CPC conducted
a series of FGM awareness-raising sessions, various
community groups such as local leaders, religious leaders and school teachers
were mobilized to participate in influencing other community members to change
their behavior regarding FGM. These awareness
raising strengthened the knowledge of parents, health workers; and religious and
community leaders, for the benefits of eliminating the practice
of FGM/C at a local level. Approximately 1151
people of whom 374 are children attended the
community sensitization, mobilization, and awareness on FGM (see Annex 2). 43 girls
have so far been saved from FGM by the CPCs after attending capacity building
session on FGM prevention. This figure was obtained for the CPCs in the
different project locations and was documented in Child protection data sheet. In this month, Community
based child protection committees identified and resolved 252 cases, and also
referred 313 with different child protection concerns to service providers, as
was reported from the communities worked with in this month by the CPAs in
different project locations. |