Our Goal

Is to ensure that all children and their families have access to and make critical use of quality preventive and responsive child wellbeing services.

Our strategy: Violence Prevention and Response

Parents have the responsibility to provide care and protection to their children. When rights of children are violated, children and parents need to have access to services that intervene and provide assistance. The complex nature of child abuse, neglect and exploitation requires various actors to work together to provide quality, child friendly and sustainable preventive and responsive services for children. The government has the main responsibility to coordinate provision, access and delivery of these services. ICS-SP supports the provision of these services through establishing and/or strengthening child protection systems at national and local level.

Our Investment Goals

Organizing and facilitating government coordination: The government is ultimately responsible for the provision of quality child protection services. ICS-SP facilitates and strengthens government role of coordinating formal and informal child protection and related services.

Facilitating quality child protection services: To be able to carry out their job effectively, child protection service providers need to have the right attitude, knowledge, skills and financial resources for prevention, early detection and response to violence. In partnership with relevant government departments, and national NGOs, ICS-SP supports children services to reach a standardized quality through building the capacity of various actors and facilitating the development of operational and service guidelines for actors in the child protection system.

Prevention of child rights violations through skilful parenting: ICS-SP believes that parents need to feel the “power to parent” so as to influence the future of their children in a positive way. By working with parents on how to become better parents, skilful parenting contributes to the prevention of child abuse, neglect and family disintegration.

Building blocks

All children and their families have access to quality child protection

services

Collaborative Lobbying and

advocacy

Prevention of child rights violations

through skilful parenting

Facilitating quality child protection

services

Children as actors in their

own protection

Sustainable child protection

services

Organizing and facilitating

government coordination

OUR PARTNERS

ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN FACT SHEET

Investing in Children and their Societies (ICS-SP) strives towards a better future for children in rural Africa. Together with families, communities, and other stakeholders we initiate programmes to create safe and nurturing environments for children to reach their full potential. At the very core of our work is Skilful Parenting and Ending Violence against Children.

County child protection systems guidelines developed and adopted by the Department of Children Services in Kenya. The guidelines will be rolled out in all the 47 counties in the country

Child Helpline 116 established and operational in Tanzania in collaboration with C-SEMA and the Government of Tanzania. The helpline handles 924 cases annually

Child Protection Information Management System developed and functional in Busia County, Kenya

Case Management and Referral guidelines developed in collaboration with Childline Kenya

A Children’s Legal Protection Centre established in Western Kenya. 721 cases are handled annually

A network of 200 paralegals and 25 parasocial workers trained and are proving child protection services in Kenya and Tanzania

8 Child protection teams active in Tanzania and 196 child protection area advisory councils working in Kenya

818 Formal Child Protection actors trained in Kenya and Tanzania

93 Children clubs active and 30 Schools have speak out boxes / happy and sad boxes

Over 96 trained parent facilitators working with over 35,806 families to promote a culture of skilful parenting in Kenya and Tanzania

Children as actors in their own protection: Children need to understand their rights and responsibilities to be able to protect themselves from abuse and neglect. Rights cease to have meaning if children lack the skills and knowledge required to actualize them. ICS-SP invests in empowering children and their organizations.

Sustainable child protection services: Child protection and related services need to be financially sustainable in the longer term. ICS-SP is researching on possibilities to ensure this through social business, public private partnerships and insurance schemes.

Collaborative lobbying and advocacy: We invest in giving children and families a voice, building evidence from practice and enhancing civil society lobby capabilities to facilitate the progressive implementation of violence prevention and response interventions. ICS-SP adopts a cooperative and collaborative approach to lobbying decision and policymakers.

Government

Civil society & local

community groups

Community & families

Influences practice & policy

Implements projects at scale

Facilitates & Coordinate process

924

721

200

196

818

cases annually

cases handles annually

paralegals trained

cp area advisory councilworking in Kenya

formal cp actors trained

96trained parent facilitators

Our Successes

93children clubs active

Check our website for all our activities: www.icsafrica-sp.org

Strengthens capacity

For more information, contact:

Beatrice OgutuProgram Director, Africa

P.O. Box 13892 - 00800Nairobi, Kenya

Office mobile: +254 731682596 / 682598

Program OfficeNorthern Tanzania - Shinyanga

P.O. Box 1195 Shinyanga Region, Tanzania

Office: +255 028 2762921

Program OfficeWestern Kenya - Busia

P.O. Box 599 - 50400 Busia, Kenya

Office: +254 55 22 165/588