Support to Districts Affected by Insecurity
Project / Program Summary
I. Basic data
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II. Project description
- Support to restoration of basic health services, water supply and sanitation, basic education, and psycho-social support to children in need of special protection.
- Support to advocacy and local social mobilization as part of local capacity development for emergency-disaster preparedness and management.
- Objectives
- Ensuring access of women and children to basic social services (primary schooling, psycho-social support, and primary health care;)
- Collecting information on the situation of women and children in districts experiencing insecurity;
- Ensuring that children especially affected by the insecurity obtain appropriate assistance;
- Preventing child abuse.
- Activities:
- Preparation of a situation analysis and district emergency plan;
- Organization of large scale measles vaccination and Vitamin A supplementation campaigns in priority districts affected by the conflict (Gulau, Arua and Kitgum);
- Delivery of treatment for common diseases and preventive health care messages with the population;
- Provision of water supply, construction of latrines, purchase of spare parts for bore-holes, training of hand-pump mechanics, extension of piped water;
- Organization of national workshop on psycho-social trauma care, training of community-based volunteers, camp leaders and teachers;
- Advocacy and follow-up on abducted children.
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