Project Child Resilience Alliance

Campaign Story

Helping Village people

About the project

Based in Khunti and Dhanbad districts, Jharkhand, CRA and its partners seek to foster a community-led approach to child protection practice that includes the participation of children themselves. The project’s Inter Agency Group (IAG) comprises CINI, Chetna Vikas, Plan India, Praxis, and CRA as the grant-holder and coordinating body. The IAG promotes a model that integrates community-led child protection (CLCP) with panchayat (village government) support for children. CRA and partners envision vibrant, civic child protection processes that support government efforts in Jharkhand and nationally.

This Project is fully funded by the Oak foundation.

Making a difference

Broadly, CRA seeks to scale up its ongoing activities in expanding, developing, and documenting community-led child protection initiatives. Men, women and children who attended public meetings held in the two intervention districts had identified child marriage and school dropout as the two most important harms to children. These meetings provided community clearinghouses for information about programs and services available to girls and families in need. More women began speaking up at the village meetings, eventually becoming more influential in the Gram Sabha (village-level public forum). CRA supported these same communities during the project’s second phase in developing and implementing participatory child protection plans. Partners identified and trained leaders from each village, and assisted communities in forming village-level task forces charged with coordinating the monitoring of and response to incidents of abuse and violence toward children. Aligning its interventions with Mission Vatsalya, a child rights framework recently adopted by the Government of India, is a priority for CRA from 2022 onward.

Making a Difference

The way forward

● Initiate dialogue with panchayat members on how to interconnect the panchayat model with Mission Vatsalya.
● Organize district-level discussions with key child protection functionaries and stakeholders.
● Organize an alliance meeting with civil society organizations for discussion of messaging and processes in support of Mission Vatsalya.
● Conduct Mission Vatsalya National Roundtable on CLCP involving block, district and state-level government stakeholders.
● Organize capacity-building sessions for leaders and communities toward further implementation of CLCP.

● Expand, develop, and document community-led child protection initiatives
● Influence practitioners, UNICEF, Government, and donor stakeholders to increasingly use and support community-led child protection

The way forward

● Orienting Anganwadi teachers on Early Childhood Education (ECE) programme components.
● Strengthening parents monitoring committee
● Conducting awareness programmes on child labor at the community level
● Implementing Life Skills Modules in child collectives to inculcate self-esteem and self confidence
● Transact life skills modules on sexual and reproductive health in adolescent girls collectives

Project Impact

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Natural leaders trained on social mapping (for identifying vulnerable children), and planning and monitoring of community-protection mechanisms.

Regular meetings held with 150 adolescent girls and 100 adolescent boys on education, menstruation, and girls’ rights.

One-day workshop organized for the PRI members on community engagement and participation vis-a-vis Mission Vatsalya.

Block-level convergence meeting organized involving the natural leaders and adolescent members, where they presented on the significance of CLCP.

Held consultation with UNICEF on the CLCP model, and developed a paper on CLCP and adolescent participation.

Last Year’s Grant Disbursed: $146,869

Current Year’s Approved Grant – $149,401

Story

Vedika, a 13-year-old girl, lives with her parents and her younger brother in a small house in Latur. According to her parents, she is not a bright student and does not like going to school. When COVID hit, her elder sister was married, and she dropped out of school. Her parents started taking her to the agriculture field with them.

When the CRY team visited Vedika’s home, they learned about her situation. Her mother shared that because she is not interested in studies, she is taking care of household chores, and in a couple of years, they will get her married.

The project team convinced her mother to send her to classes. After a long discussion, she agreed to send her to the class for 1 month before taking any further decision. The team conducted an assessment test for Vedika, in which they realised she could not read and write. Simple and engaging ways were adapted to teach her. She started progressing in her studies with team’s effort and her hard work.

She started writing in Marathi and reading in English in a month and a half, which left her parents amazed and happy. They decided to let her stay with her grandparents and study when they migrated for work.

Currently, Vedika is a regular student in the class and has developed a keen interest in her studies. She has big dreams for herself, which she is working towards. Timely intervention and regular classes helped Vedika return to school.

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