Child Abuse Programme Grants (2006)

Eastern Africa

• Action for Children

  To conduct a survey with the involvement of all stakeholders to have more information on the situation of child sexual abuse and exploitation, to support counselling for sexual abuse victims and to strengthen the help-line service in Kampala. (Over three years)

• Adama Child Focused Network

  To support the Ethio-Child Focused Network to create a comprehensive child protection system in Adama Town, Ethiopia. The project will initiate child protection units, develop a free child help-line which will facilitate reporting of abuse incidents by children and adults. It will provide temporary shelters for both girls and boys, as well as appropriate medical and legal services for abused children. (Over three years)

• ANPPCAN Regional - Kenya

  To support a regional anti-child-trafficking programme in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania. ANPPCAN will conduct action research and, based upon these findings, develop awareness for border town residents, including children, while building the capacity of relevant government and community groups to prevent the problem and support the victims. (Over two years)

• DogoDogo Center Street Children Trust

  To plan training and awareness programmes against sexual abuse and exploitation of children in coastal zones of Tanzania. (Over three years

• Emmanuel Development Association (EDA)

  To help EDA plan activities in Ethiopia to prevent children from being sexually abused and exploited as well as rehabilitating victims by promoting the participation of children at home, in their communities and in schools. (Over two years)

• Ethiopian Sociology Social Anthropology and Social Work Association (ESSSWA)

  To support ESSSWA in enhancing the capacities of its members to facilitate child-friendly service delivery to vulnerable children. These include: Addis Ababa University sociology undergraduate students and lecturers, social work graduate department students and, lecturers on the UN Convention on the Right of the Child, child protection and child sexual abuse and exploitation. (Over three years)

• International Rescue Committee

  To support the provision of education and other social services for girls and young women affected by the civil war and living in six Internally Displaced People camps in Kitgum district, Uganda. To improve their participation in matters affecting their lives and protect them from further violence and abuse. (Over two years)

• Kiota Women’s Health and Development Organisation

  To empower children who are vulnerable and working in prostitution and hazardous domestic labour escape exploitation in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Over three years)

• Love for Children Organization

  To protect street girls from sexual abuse and exploitation in Ethiopia. (Over three years)

• Raising Voices

  To prevent violence, sexual abuse and the exploitation of children in Uganda. Three interrelated pilot programmes will be carefully documented with the aim of developing a programme tool aimed at organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa that want to prevent violence, sexual abuse and exploitation of children. (Over three years)

• Tanzania Media Women’s Association

  To contribute towards the reduction in the rate of child sexual abuse and exploitation in Mwarazi and Mchinga villages in the Morogoro and Lindi regions respectively, as well as empowering the general public in Tanzania to take action to stop practices which subject children to sexual abuse and exploitation. (Over two years)

• Uganda Child Rights NGO’s Network

  To strengthen positive responses to child sexual abuse and exploitation in war-affected areas of Northern and North-Eastern Uganda (Over three years)

• Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau

  To provide medical and psychosocial support for the child victims of sexual abuse using community based clinics. To train community child advocates and community leaders to address child sexual abuse problems. (Over three years)

• Uganda Youth Development Link

  To contribute to the creation of an environment that recognises, promotes and protects children’s rights through the promotion of resilience and child friendly services in the districts of Kampala, Mukono and Kalangala.

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