Child right protection and Development

To ensure the protection of child right from violation and development in safe and conducive environment, FC will execute the following in its projects.

Child safeguarding

To ensure the protection of child right from violation and development in safe and conducive environment, FC will execute the following in its projects.

Quality education initiatives

Support inclusive and quality primary education, and early childhood education and school infrastructure that ensure quality education.

Community mobilization

Engage community- based organization (CBO), Faith Based Organization (FBO), Local Leaders, and other networks to champion child protection.

Street Children Rehabilitation

Providing psychosocial support, life skills, vocational training, and family reintegration to help street youth build confidence, independence, and sustainable livelihoods.

Nutrition

enhance the awareness and capacity of the family on nutrition

Advocacy & Lobbying

Strengthening child rights through advocacy, public awareness, and coordinated partnerships to influence policies and promote accountability.

Awareness and training

Conduct workshops for parents, teachers, and community leaders on child rights and protection.

Child participation platforms

Establish clubs, forums, or councils where children can express their views and meaningfully participate.

Reporting and referral systems

Create safe mechanisms for reporting abuse and linking children to duty bearers.

Family strengthening programs

Offer parenting skills training, economic empowerment, and psychosocial support for family in favor of the children.

MAJOR RESULTS

Through its thematic areas, FC has successfully implemented projects, significantly impacting the lives of its target beneficiaries. The organization’s commitment to community change and strategic initiatives has resulted in tangible improvements, fostering positive development and creating a meaningful difference in the communities it serves.

Advancing Child Protection and Empowerment

Promotion of Child Protection and Development mainly focuses on enabling children to realize their full potential and enable them to access basic services. It facilitates child right promotion, and protection, as well as rehabilitation of victim children.

Orphan and vulnerable children

FC reunified and reintegrated 379 children and youth in Jimma and Debere Markos Orphanage to their respective families and communities successfully. However, this doesn’t mean problem of Orphan and vulnerable children issue is solved. Therefore, FC developed a strategy that includes a curative component (psychosocial rehabilitation),a proactive component (improving the level of awareness & income of youth & mothers to care their children).

Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Reunification and Integration

Following adaptation of community-based child care, FC supported more than 173, 684 OVC, abandend children, street children, and youth victims of different violations and HTPs to get psychosocial rehabilitation and reunification and reintegrate them to their families and communities.

Promotion of Child Right

Addressing the root cause behind child abandonment, vulnerability, abuse and HTPs FC works on creating awareness on child right and for the wider community and support the implementation of child right instruments by the duty bearers. Children are also supported to participate in their own agendas and have a say to promote the child right.

Promotion of Early Child Education (ECE)

FC aims to ensure that every child, regardless of background, has the opportunity to thrive in a stimulating and inclusive learning environment. By prioritizing ECE, FC fosters a generation equipped with the tools to succeed, contributing to the broader vision of sustainable growth and societal development.

45+

ECE Centers Promoted

14500+

Children enrolled to ECE

Basic Education

In the past, access to education was a challenge for many rural children due to unavailability of schools nearby, longer distances need to travel and congested conditions of classrooms. Alternative basic education (ABE) centers had been an option to create access to basic education for children in their vicinity.

ABE School Promoted

ABE Upgraded
to Primary

Children Enrolled

0 k+

Key figures on School support

176

Classroom

FC constructed 176 new classrooms across 56 schools, fostering positive educational transformation.

120

Classroom Renovated

classrooms across 64 schools through comprehensive renovations.

121

School Toilets

FC built 121 school toilets, improving sanitation and promoting hygiene in school.

Water Points

FC constructed 78 new water points, significantly improving access to clean water in the school.

Cluster School

About 29 SNE cluster schools are supported by partially renovating SNE class rooms and equipping with SNE materials.

Children enrolled to SNE

About 378(144F) children with disability attended education in the near cluster schools.

Children enrolled Based on their impairment

About 273 children with disability attended their education in SNEs based on their impairment

Child right protection and Development