UNICEF Child Protection CPF II Zimbabwe 2019-2022
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The Child Protection Fund’s goal is to realize the basic rights of the most vulnerable children in Zimbabwe through provision of critical child protection interventions within a child and HIV-sensitive social protection framework. It builds on the CPF Phase I (2011-2016), adopting a multi-dimensional approach to child vulnerability which simultaneously address...
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The Child Protection Fund’s goal is to realize the basic rights of the most vulnerable children in Zimbabwe through provision of critical child protection interventions within a child and HIV-sensitive social protection framework. It builds on the CPF Phase I (2011-2016), adopting a multi-dimensional approach to child vulnerability which simultaneously addresses household poverty, gender disparities, disability, HIV and risk of violence, exploitation and abuse. Taking lessons from CPF I and II, this third phase of CPF has a stronger focus on violence reduction through prevention, information management and governance structures and capacity. The third phase does not include cash transfer.Through a theory of change developed for CPF III, the programme aims to ensure that “children, families and communities access improved preventive and responsive child protection services reinforced by household and community economic resilience in targeted areas.” An increasing body of evidence about violence against children in Zimbabwe shows that violence is widespread and cuts across age, gender, and socio-economic status. There are many interlinked causes that include: family dislocation and an absence of positive parenting due to temporary migration; a high caseload of single and double orphans which is a legacy of the HIV pandemic; a propensity for resolving disputes violently that stems from generally high levels of trauma and stress in the country; overcrowded living conditions and high dependency ratios due to poverty and jobless-ness; children witnessing sexual relations from a very young age; and widespread unhealthy adolescent relationships in which negative coping strategies such as transactional sex are common, and in which regressive gender norms mixed with substance abuse generate high levels of intimate partner violence. This project is co-funded with the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC) and DFID.
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The CPF has continued to demonstrate the value of a longstanding Government-CSO-UNICEF partnership in providing quality services that respond to critical child welfare and protection concerns including sexual violence. Through its investment over the years in systems and coordination between stakeholders, the programme has laid the important building blocks needed to prevent and respond to child protection concerns including a fully trained cadre of child protection volunteers [Community Care Workers (CCWs)] and a functioning National Case Management System (NCMS). As such CPF, continues to be held up as an example of good practice for others in the Africa region. The programme has also continued to flex and respond to a succession of emergencies. The CPF responded to child protection needs arising from both Cyclone Idai and COVID-19. As reports of violence against children increased, as an indirect consequence of lock-down and the actions taken to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, CPF has played a key leadership role as chair of the Child Protection Sub Cluster and through its capacity building of CSO partners. Action taken included adaptation of services and providing tracing and reunification services to Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) who were living on the streets and in quarantine facilities at the borders. It is also important to recognise the immense contextual challenges facing the CPF as it operates against a backdrop of weakening government institutional systems. Structural and system constraints include the absence of internet connectivity in the Ministry for [which inhibited the ability to upload cases onto the Management Information System (MIS)] and the declining economic situation, characterized by rising inflation and an exodus of qualified Social Workers. COVID-19 brought in unprecedented challenge to the CPF operating environment. The steep rise in reports of child abuse and a sharp decline in the capability of systems has challenged many of the programmes underlying assumptions. The support has ensured continuity in provision of essential child protection and GBV services to the poor and vulnerable children and women over the years. The support, contributed to the scaling up of the countys flagship National Child Protection Case Management System, increased access to birth registration services, critical policy and legal reform in the child protection sector, social welfare workforce strengthening including recruitment and placement of Case Management Officers, scaling up of measures to divert children in conflict with the law to alternatives to detention and access to survivor-friendly justice for vulnerable children and women. Gender, adolescents access to Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services and the Leave No One Behind agenda have been important components of UNICEFs work supported by Sweden. The Government of Zimbabwe has strengthened the provision of child protection services through the roll out of a National Case Management System in CPF-supported districts. The strengthening of UNICEF's technical assistance to the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare by establishing a Programme Support Team (PST) has contributed to the successful implementation of the programme. The PST is embedded in the Ministrys different sections and provides highly technical inputs to priority and strategic areas identified by the Ministry. The PST is made of Technical Advisers on child protection, social protection and M&E, MIS staff, and a Programme Finance Assistant.
The Child Protection Funds goal is to realize the basic rights of the most vulnerable children in Zimbabwe through provision of critical child protection interventions within a child and HIV-sensitive social protection framework. It builds on the CPF Phase I & II, adopting a multi-dimensional poverty approach to child vulnerability which simultaneously addresses household poverty, gender disparities, disability, HIV and risk of violence, exploitation and abuse. Through a theory of change, the programme aims to ensure that children, families and communities access improved preventive and responsive child protection services reinforced by household and community economic resilience in targeted areas. (See also theory of change attached in track). The CPF outcomes are: - increased availability and accessibility of age/gender-appropriate, affordable, and well-coordinated Child Protection services in targeted areas (18 districts). - families and communities in targeted areas have information, knowledge and skills on violence against children and how to protect children improved evidence-based policies and legislative instruments to address violence against children implemented and reinforced by institutional capacity.
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