The UNICEF Uganda Child Protection Programme envisages that by 2025, children in Uganda especially the most vulnerable and those affected by humanitarian situations are protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation, including harmful practices, and realize their right to identity by:

• Strengthening legislative, policy, budgetary and institutional frameworks.
• Building and enhancing capacities of children, families and communities to identify risks and prevent and respond to all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
• Ensuring that children and their families access quality cross-sectoral protection services, including birth registration.

Sectors and Areas of Specialization

• Protection
  • Child protection
  • Gender based violence
  • Prevention of and response to crime/violence
  • Protection in emergencies

Funding Information

• Indicative Budget: 365000000.00000.

Target Groups

• Strand 1
  • Primary Beneficiaries: Boys, girls in all their diversity experiencing abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence; men and women.
  • Secondary Audiences: boys and girls, parents, caregivers, cultural leaders, religious leaders, community opinion leaders, school administrations and non-teaching staff.
• Strand 2
  • Primary Beneficiaries: Boys, girls, men and women survivors of Ebola Virus Disease and their families
  • Secondary Audiences: Cultural leaders, religious leaders, community opinion leaders, school administrations and nonteaching staff that interact with survivors of SVD/EVD

Expected Outputs

• UNICEF envisages that by end of proposed programmes, the successful applicant will be able to contribute to the following specific Outputs.Whichever strand the applicant chooses to respond to, the proposed interventions should demonstrate how they will strengthen the enabling environment, nurture capacity of service providers and community structures and increase knowledge and skills of communities to access child protection and MHPSS services.
  • Strengthened district coordination mechanisms for improving access to quality multi-sectoral protection services and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support - (Enabling Environment).
  • Improved capacity of targeted districts and service delivery points to deliver quality multi-sectoral protection services and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support - (Supply or System Strengthening).
  • Increased knowledge, skills and changed attitudes of communities to demand and utilize quality multi-sectoral protection services and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support - (Demand).

Geographic Location

• Uganda
  • Central

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