JDF Protection SECTOR
Protection (Child Protection and Gender-based violence)
Since Inception Jireh Doo Foundation have continued to responds to challenges arising from both man made and Natural disasters, many of which take different forms and affects women, girls’ boys, and men. JDF in all her programs mainstreams protection due to its importance.
Protection (Child protection and Gender-based violence) is one of Jireh Doo Foundation’s (JDF) strong area of interventions. Over the years, JDF have impacted the lives of affected population positively through provision of quality child protection and GBV prevention, response services and protection risk education messages on mines and small arms and light weapons.
Our Objectives
- Reducing the risk of GBV by implementing GBV prevention and mitigation strategies in emergency to recovery stages of humanitarian action.
- Promoting resilience by strengthening national and community-based systems that prevent and mitigate GBV, and by enabling survivors and those at risk of GBV to access specialized care and support.
- Aiding recovery of communities and societies by supporting local and national capacity to create lasting solutions to the problem of GBV.
- Help survivors to gain their confidence back and face life head long.
- To provide key strategy for promoting safe sexual behavior among adolescents
- To provide formal reproductive health, educational and communication among parents and adolescent
- Risk Education to mitigate the exposure to mines and small arms.
Our Activities
- Establishing of safe spaces for women, girls and young boys who are vulnerable to violence. The safe space offers psycho-social support activities and facilitates economic and social empowerment and livelihood including skills acquisition, NFI's and menstrual health kit support.
- Facilitate adolescent girls’ programmes.
- Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) activities such as promoting safe sexual behavior among adolescent, awareness in reproductive health education, awareness in prevention of unwanted pregnancy and preventive measure of STI.
- GBV case management
- GBV case referral and follow-up
- GBV sensitization and awareness raising.
- Capacity strengthening for staff, key stakeholders, community, and religious leaders
- Start up grants for women and girls.
- VSLA program
- Community sensitization and awareness campaigns
- Strategic community advocacy
- Small arms and explosive ordinance risk education using key context specific approaches.
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