Terre des Hommes Netherlands in Africa

🎉SCROL Annual Reflection and Planning Workshop in Malindi🎉🌍 📢We’re thrilled to announce the successful completion of the SCROL (Safety for Children and their Rights Online) Annual Reflection and Planning Workshop, held from October 1st to 4th, 2024, in Malindi, Kilifi County. This important event brought together Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL), Childline Kenya (CLK), and community resource persons to evaluate the progress made in 2024 and outline the strategic direction for 2025. 🌟Objectives of the Workshop  The workshop focused on reflecting on key achievements, updating the Results Framework (RFW), and creating a robust work plan for 2025. A special emphasis was placed on child protection against Online Child Sexual Exploitation (OCSE), enhancing partnerships, and ensuring financial and operational accountability. 🌟Key Outcomes  ✨Comprehensive Reflection: Participants celebrated significant milestones, including raising awareness and strengthening child protection systems in Kilifi, Kisumu, and Nairobi. The reflection sessions allowed for insightful discussions on successes and challenges. ✨Strategic Planning for 2025: The team updated the Results Framework, finalised the 2025 work plan, and aligned the project budget to effectively combat OCSE. ✨Partnership Enhancement: Key county-level actors, including Children Officers from Kilifi, Kisumu, and Nairobi, were engaged to deepen local collaboration, ensuring a sustained impact on child protection. ✨Financial Transparency: Sessions on finance compliance, reporting, and project visibility ensured transparency and accountability as we move forward. 🌟Way Forward  The workshop concluded with clear, actionable recommendations that will guide SCROL’s 2025 implementation, reinforcing efforts to create safer online spaces for children in Kenya through stronger reporting, prosecution, and community involvement.

📢 Training on Principles for Effective Programming to Prevent and Respond to Child Exploitation 🌟 TdH NL Ethiopia successfully conducted training on Principles for Effective Programming to prevent and respond to Child exploitation from 1st to 3rd October 2024.   The objective of training was to introduce the guiding principles to prevent and respond to child exploitation as per our Listen Up Strategy 2023-2030; and to enhance the participants understanding and implementation of the principles in our programming. A total of 15 individuals, including 6 partner staff and 9 TdH staff, actively participated in the training. The diverse group of participants brought valuable perspectives and experiences to the discussions and activities. Thanks to the three seasoned facilitators, part of the Gondar team last year: Girma Amentie, Abebe Mengstie and Muluken. The participants were happy to receive this important training. 📚The training covered important modules focused on addressing child exploitation and promoting inclusion. It began with an overview of the journey from CCIs and delved into the Listen Up Strategy. The module on child exploitation provided definitions and strategies for addressing diverse forms of exploitation while emphasizing inclusive approaches to protect all children. Understanding intersectionality and power dynamics was also highlighted, emphasizing how various social identities intersect and influence efforts to address child exploitation. The concept of positionality was introduced to encourage reflection on one's own position and power in society to better engage with and support vulnerable populations. Lastly, the training emphasized the significance of prioritizing children's voices and inclusion in decision-making processes, highlighting the importance of child participation and inclusion. The three-day training was a significant step towards reinforcing TdH NL's commitment to effective and inclusive programming. The insights and skills gained by the participants will contribute to more impactful interventions and a deeper understanding of the complex issues surrounding child exploitation.

🎉 Today, we celebrate the incredible power of girls around the world! 🌍👧 💪 This year’s International Day of the Girl theme, “Girls' Vision for the Future” shines a spotlight on the need to listen to their voices and champion their dreams. At Terre des Hommes Netherlands, we are proud to support the amazing She Leads advocates as they make strides in shaping their futures. 🙌 Today, we celebrate some of their remarkable achievements: 🇺🇬 Uganda: Cultural and traditional leaders passed a resolution condemning forced marriages, son preference, and male property dominance in Karamoja—thanks to continuous engagement by the She Leads team! 🇰🇪 Kenya: The State Department of Gender & Affirmative Action and the Judiciary, together with She Leads consortium members, launched the Protection Against Domestic Violence (PADV) Act. 🇪🇹 Ethiopia: Young women from the Girls and Young Women Voice (GYW) group engaged high-level decision-makers from key ministries to address issues affecting them. 🌟 Let us continue to work together to amplify the voices of girls and young women and support their advocacy work! #InternationalDayoftheGirl #SheLeads #DayoftheGirlChild #ISpeak4Myself

💡 Did you know? 💡 In Uganda🇺🇬, millions of children are working in exploitative conditions, with 93 per cent of rural children believed to be engaged in commercial or subsistence agriculture.  💼 In the country factsheet, we highlight the root causes of child exploitation, and our approaches and interventions to prevent child sexual exploitation, child trafficking and unsafe migration, and child labour. At Terre des Hommes Netherlands, we are committed to addressing the root causes that leave children vulnerable to exploitation, while also empowering them to advocate for themselves and have their voices heard. Read more and join our cause>> https://lnkd.in/ds-uR-ui #EndChildExploitation #Uganda

🎉 Action Against Child Labour Project Capacity Development Workshop in Busia County🎉 🌟Last week, from 23rd to 25th September 2024, the Action Against Child Labour (AACL) project team, led by Evans Munga PMP®, AACL Project Manager, held a three-day capacity development workshop with senior officials from the County Government of Busia. The workshop focused on the domestication of child labour laws and strengthening enforcement mechanisms to address child labour within the county. 🌟The main objectives of this training were to enhance participants’ understanding of child labour concepts, equip government agencies with knowledge of existing labour legal frameworks, and secure commitments to implement these laws effectively. By aligning local laws with national policies, the workshop aimed to develop a SMART action plan to strengthen child protection systems in Busia County. ✨The workshop successfully brought together officers from various county departments, including the County Attorney’s office, Gender and Social Services, Public Service, Agriculture and Fisheries. Participants gained a deeper understanding of their roles in the fight against child labour, and the County Government of Busia committed to developing a Security Enforcement Bill to tackle enforcement challenges.   ✨ The training also reinforced collaboration between county and national agencies like the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) and the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (MOLSP), all focused on the elimination of child labour. 🟠This initiative reaffirms TdH NL’s ongoing efforts to create child-safe environments and accelerate the eradication of child labour in Kenya. Together with the Busia County Government, TdH NL remains committed to safeguarding children from exploitation.

🌍 Our Africa Region Factsheet highlights our critical work to protect children from exploitation across the continent. Many are trafficked for slavery, forced labour, or used in prostitution and armed conflict. At Terre des Hommes Netherlands, we collaborate with children, families, communities, governments, CSOs, NGOs, the media, and private sector partners to address systemic drivers of child exploitation, strengthen child protection systems and advocate for children’s rights. As Raphael Kariuki, TdH NL Regional Director, reminds us, "Child Exploitation deprives children of their rights. Let’s join together to stop every form of exploitation." Join us🤝 in preventing and stopping child exploitation and building a brighter future for children>> https://lnkd.in/dMbZkHaB #StopChildExploitation #Africa

🌍Virtual ´Better Together´ Africa Region Strategy Launch Terre des Hommes Netherlands invites you to be part of the ´Better Together´ Africa Region Strategy Launch virtual event taking place on Wednesday, 16th October 2024 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm EAT. This event marks a significant step in our collective effort to stop child exploitation, an urgent issue affecting millions of children globally. What to Expect During the strategy launch, we will share our ambitious strategic actions towards preventing and stopping child exploitation. We will explore the issue of child exploitation, examining its root causes and invite you to participate in a meaningful discussion on how we can prevent and address this critical issue affecting children. We will also introduce our Listenup! Strategy and our three co-created strategic thematic programmes—Humanitarian Action, Sexual Exploitation of Children, and Child Labour—showcasing innovative approaches and the impact of our signature projects, particularly in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. How to Join 💡Please click on the link to register your details: https://lnkd.in/dVNSVPGn 📅 Please add the Google Meet Link to your calendar: https://lnkd.in/dx9utTTU   We strongly believe that we are better together in preventing and stopping child exploitation and building a brighter future for children across Africa. We look forward to your participation. #EndChildExploitation

🌍 Africa Region Country Factsheets! We are pleased to present our factsheets, which provide a detailed outlook of our work in Africa, with a focus on Kenya 🇰🇪, Uganda 🇺🇬, Tanzania 🇹🇿, Ethiopia 🇪🇹, and Madagascar 🇲🇬. ✨These factsheets showcase our projects and programmes, innovative approaches, achievements, results and impact in each in country. Read more>>https://lnkd.in/dGP_X9Vx #EndChildExploitation

🎉Op-ed article published in Daily News Tanzania 🌟 With the recent commemoration of World Humanitarian Day, we are pleased to announce that our op-ed article titled ´Protecting Africa’s vulnerable children: Call for community-based solutions amid crises was successfully published in Daily News Tanzania on 20th September 2024. Daily News Tanzania has a daily newspaper circulation of 53,000 physical copies and 31,000 PDF subscriptions. 🌟 Authored by Raphael Kariuki, Regional Director, Africa, TdH NL, the op-ed article sheds light on the alarming statistics of children in need of humanitarian assistance amid crises in Africa, while concurrently exploring the underlying factors that render children vulnerable in such situations. 🌟 The op-ed highlights the various forms of child exploitation in conflict-affected areas and their devastating impact on children's well-being. It also showcases our impactful work in Ethiopia, where we provide individual protection assistance, establish child-friendly spaces, offer access to alternative education, and deliver psychosocial and mental health services to support children in crisis. 🌟In the op-ed, we implore different actors to work together, leverage and complement each other’s efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of all children. Read the insightful op-ed article and share it widely>>> https://lnkd.in/dFqPFRRu #EndChildExploitation

🛑 CSOs and Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Counter-Trafficking and Smuggling in Busia County 🚨 🌟 From 17th to 24th September, 2024, Terre des Hommes Netherlands (TdH NL) 🇳🇱, in partnership with IOM Kenya 🇰🇪, held a forum on counter-trafficking in persons (TIP) and migrant smuggling in Busia County. The event was led by Evans Munga PMP® , the CL & BMMIII Project Manager at Terre des Hommes Netherlands, and brought together Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and key stakeholders. 🌟 As the coordinator of CSOs working on anti-trafficking and unsafe migration in Kenya, TdH NL aligned the forum with the Better Migration Management (BMM) programme. The primary goal was to enhance capacity-building efforts among key actors on victim identification, assessment, and service delivery, using the National Referral Mechanisms framework. 🌟 Participants explored the gaps, challenges, and emerging trends in Busia County, while strategizing on how to strengthen collaboration in combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and smuggling. Notably, government agencies and CSOs established a Technical Working Group (TWG) on TIP to ensure ongoing cooperation. 🔶 TdH NL and IOM Kenya are closely monitoring developments and trends in Busia and plan to engage frequently with local actors to foster stronger coordination in the future.