From July 2023, work with security-sector duty bearers and civil society to strengthen how child rights violations are reported. The project engaged over 100 duty bearers and 100 community stakeholders.
A violation that is never reported cannot be answered. In much of Somalia the obstacle is not indifference but mechanism: communities are unsure where a report goes, and the officials who receive one have not always agreed on what happens next.
From July 2023, BADEF worked in Mogadishu and Baidoa to strengthen the mechanisms for reporting child rights violations, raising awareness among communities and among the stakeholders who act on what is reported.
The project engaged over 100 security sector duty bearers and 100 community stakeholders, deliberately both sides of the same process. Awareness on its own produces reports that go nowhere; agreement among duty bearers on its own produces a channel nobody uses.
Reporting mechanisms are infrastructure. They do not appear in a distribution figure, but they decide whether the children a programme reaches can be protected once it has gone.
Regional sensitisation of civil society actors and national human rights institutions on children affected by armed conflict, held in Kampala from 29 July to 2 August 2024.
Read more : Children affected by conflict in the COMESA regionFor women and families displaced by crisis in Afmadow District, dignity means having access to essential items that support their health, confidence, and everyday wellbeing. Through the distribution of dignity kits, BADEF Development Foundation, with support from the Somalia Humanitarian Fund, helped vulnerable IDPs meet important personal needs while reinforcing their sense of dignity and hope.
Read more : Restoring Dignity: Supporting Displaced Women and Families in AfmadowClinical training for nurses and midwives staffing gender-based violence health centres in Afmadow, Lower Juba, delivered with the Somalia Humanitarian Fund.
Read more : CMR training for nurses and midwives
