Child Abuse Programme Grants (2007)

Eastern Africa

• African Child Policy Forum

  To support the development of child protection policies and procedures in child-focused organisations with the aim of reducing violence against children in general, and sexual abuse in particular. The African Child Policy Forum will focus on helping child-centred organisations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. (Over two years)

• ANPPCAN Uganda

  To protect vulnerable children in central and northern Uganda from sexual abuse and exploitation and help survivors receive proper services to enhance their positive development. ANPPCAN Uganda is to initiate this prevention and recovery support programme to bring children, communities and various formal and informal institutions together. (Over three years)

• Children Aid Ethiopia

  To support a joint programme of prevention, protection and rehabilitation for children exposed to, or suffering from, sexual abuse and exploitation. The project will provide holistic and integrated services in a coordinated manner so as to ensure recovery from traumatic experiences for victims. (Over three years)

• Empower Children and Communities against Abuse

  To reduce the vulnerability of orphans and other children to domestic violence and sexual abuse by equipping them with resilience skills and information. In addition the project (based in the region of Uganda that is worst hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic) will link the victims with social service providers. (Over three years)

• Ethiopian Human Rights and Civic Education Promotion Association (EHRCEPA)

  To strengthen early marriage prevention initiatives and to support the victims of early marriage and sexual abuse through multi-sectoral efforts in Ethiopia's North Shoa and Amhara regional states. EHRCEPA plans to empower community members, children, families, schools and government officials to address these issues. (Over three years)

• Forum on Street Children – Ethiopia

  To strengthen the East African ECPAT network programme by proactively involving it in addressing problems associated with the commercial, sexual exploitation of children. ECPAT East Africa groups are strategic partners in the region and plan to enhance the commitment of governments and non-governmental organisations to combat such exploitation in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

• Hope for Rural Children and Orphans

  To protect the rights of children in the district of Holeta in Ethiopia (particularly children who have been abused and exploited) by establishing a safe house that will accommodate 40 vulnerable children and enable carers to reinforce their positive psycho-social development. (Over three years)

• Love for Children Organization

  To improve the lives of vulnerable women and children in the Gedam Sefer community in Ethiopia. To do this, the organisation is establishing a unique university–community partnership that brings it together with the people of the community, the Addis Ababa University School of Social Work, and the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Jane Addams College of Social Work. The strategy does not bring predefined projects to this community for its acceptance, rather the partners elicit the views of children in developing programmes to support vulnerable groups. (Over two years)

• Pact Ethiopia

  To support the Girls’ Empowerment Through Sexual Exploitation Termination Project (GET SET), which seeks to empower girls whose life circumstances put them at risk of sexual exploitation and abuse in their communities and at school. GET SET will build on a current project supported by the Nike Foundation that helps 500 girls to continue and complete secondary schooling and to increase their leadership and life skills development. (Over two years)

• Population Media Center

  To develop a serial radio drama in Ethiopia highlighting harmful traditional practices within communities and focusing on child sexual abuse. It will have a major impact on raising public awareness, thereby changing current behaviour. In addition, the Population Media Center will address those harmful, traditional practices that disproportionately affect the health and well-being of girls and women (such as early marriage, rape, marriage by abduction, and female circumcision) by using media campaigns. (Over three years)

• Tanzania Media Women's Association

  To support the development of a regional programme to encourage the active involvement of journalists in the protection of children from sexual abuse and exploitation. A code of conduct on how to report responsibly on child abuse cases will be developed and shared among Media Women's Associations and other relevant organisations. The purpose of such activities and the project as a whole is to create an informed society in the region, which protects its children from abuse and exploitation. (Over two years)

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