Child Abuse Programme Grants (2005)

NGOs With Activities in Several Countries

• Child Helpline International

  To respond to children in need of care and protection, to voice their concerns to decision- makers by establishing a global network of children's help lines and to provide support to individual child help lines. (Over three years)

• Child Soldiers Coalition Educational and Research Trust

  To contribute to efforts to stop the recruitment and use of children as soldiers by governments and armed political groups in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Activities include training, public education and advocacy. (Over two years)

• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

  To support victims of trafficking in Italy with financial aid and housing and to initiate a demand prevention programme targeting young men, and educating young women; to support the scale-up of activities to educate young men in the Philippines on gender issues and the realities of sexual exploitation, using the media to broadcast educational clips about the demand side of trafficking and to portray positive images of men and sexuality; and to expand the current school-based trafficking and prostitution prevention project to five states in Mexico, and carry out a media campaign. (Over three years)

  ECPAT International

  To bring together a synthesis of information, analysis and recommendations on forms of violence committed against children individually and collectively within virtual settings and via new technologies. The main aim is to encourage recognition by governments, policy-makers and others of the need to act to protect children against these forms of violence.

• Groupe Développement (ECPAT France)

  To support child protection activities in Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, following the December 2004 tsunami. To support a collaborative project providing prevention and care programmes for vulnerable children across the West Bengali and Bangladeshi border, facilitating the return of trafficked victims while preventing unsafe migration or trafficking of at-risk children together with a supporting media campaign designed to target and sensitise the public to trafficking risks. (Over two years)

• Home-Start International

  To assist Home-Start International in helping more families and children in need; to measure the impact of its service on child abuse/neglect; to develop consistent, high-quality good practices across the Home-Start community; and to ensure that Home-Start is a safe place for children. (Over three years)

• International Institute for Child Rights and Development

  To improve the development and quality of life of children, and to provide the tools through which professionals can better understand, apply and respect the principles and standards of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in their day-to-day practice. (Over two years)

• Save the Children Federation, Inc.

  To support the NGO’s protection initiatives for children in the Aceh province of Indonesia following the December 2004 tsunami.

• Women's World Summit Foundation

  To help continue its worldwide outreach to relevant organisations, government bodies and the population at large, to increase sensitivity and awareness of the importance of preventing child abuse. (Over three years)

Active Grants From Previous Years

• Anti-Slavery International

  To expand the capacity of local NGOs and governmental and international agencies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to provide effective interventions to better protect child domestic workers. (Third year of four-year grant)

• Bureau International Catholique de l'Enfance

  To support a regional programme to prevent sexual abuse in Latin America through education/information programmes developed by children for children; to support community work to prevent child prostitution and sexual abuse in Pondicherry, India; and to support a project to prevent girls entering into prostitution in Togo. (Third year of three-year grant)

• ECPAT Europe

  To enhance knowledge and expertise, and to improve operational skills of stakeholders in Western and Eastern Europe to protect children from trafficking for sexual purposes, to recognize children victims of trafficking, to address their specific needs on a child-rights basis, and to improve the prosecution rates of traffickers. (Second year of two-year grant)

  ECPAT International

  To combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children in East and West Africa and Eastern Europe through capacity building of local NGOs and advocacy work, and to ensure the development and/or implementation of National Plans Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and the implementation of the Stockholm Agenda for Action. (Second year of two-year grant)

• International Federation Terre des Hommes (IFTDH)

  To develop action programmes that stop trafficking in children for prostitution and other purposes in eight countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe; and to develop IFTDH institutional learning in addressing the issue and disseminate the findings and experience. (Third year of three-year grant)

• International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

  To expand training and local capacity building in multi-disciplinary responses to child abuse in Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Congo, South Africa, Colombia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, and Thailand. (Third year of three-year grant)

• NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  To strengthen regional networks to address sexual exploitation, abuse, and violence against children. (Third year of three-year grant)

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