Counseling and Training on the School Related Gender Based Violence Project

Project Location

Country: 
Somalia
City: 
kismayu

Organization

Organization Name: 
Access Developments Initiative
Organization Type: 
Other

Website

adi.org

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Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

The main objective of the proposed project is to provide quality counseling services to children and youth who are victims of school related gender based violence. The grant requested will also be used to provide training in counseling to stakeholders of the target community in order to enable them to counsel the students themselves. The target population is forty schools selected in the Eastern Region from four communities. Ten schools will be used as a control group and the remaining thirty as the sample size.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse of children of school age in the country is often perpetrated by people they know and occurs mostly in their homes and schools. There are frequent reports in the media of male teachers sexually assaulting their female students. Girls are often reluctant to report the attacks to their parents, and social pressure often prevents them from going to the authorities. A 2014 survey conducted in Somalia reported that 27 percent of school girls interviewed stated their teachers had pressured them for sex, 25 percent stated they know at least one teacher having an affair with a school girl, and 79 percent stated they were sexually harassed by male classmates.

How long has your project been running?

2016-11-29 23:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

Our broad objectives are:
• To increase opportunities that will create a forum for sharing ideas, experience and learning about SRGBV among community members (students, parents, teachers and other stakeholders).
• To provide services and referral systems for psychological counseling, medical support and services for victims and their parents.
• To provide training in counseling to community volunteers, peer counselors and teachers.

Specifically, we will:
• Sensitize the school community on SRGBV, what it is, the effects, and what should be done.
• Provide training in counselling skills.
• Set up efficient counselling services
• Employ case managers, train them and
• Set up a branch of the GVSSN

Through this program, we hope to create / increase awareness about the existence of SRGBV in the proposed communities through a sensitization outreach as our initial step towards addressing the issues of SRGBV. This will be achieved by partnering with the advocacy group of the project.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
Access & Developments Initiative (ADI) is the leading organization in Somalia providing training to direct service providers on counseling and supporting survivors of violence. Since its inception in 2010, ADI has trained over seven hundred people to provide counseling care to abused women and children. In the past two years the NGO has trained and placed over thirty (30) lay counselors and shelter staff as first line response teams at strategic locations and (ADI). To date – ADI has reached out through counseling, support and outreach services to over 20,000 clients in Somalia:
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

The main objective of the proposed project is to provide quality counseling services to children and youth who are victims of school related gender based violence. The grant requested will also be used to provide training in counseling to stakeholders of the target community in order to enable them to counsel the students themselves. The target population is forty schools selected in the Eastern Region from four communities. Ten schools will be used as a control group and the remaining thirty as the sample size. 01/2

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
From 1 to 3 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
From 30.001 to 75.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
Non-Profit Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No
Since when?: 
2015-01-30 23:00:00
When is it expected to become self-sufficient?: 
2016-12-30 23:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

A critical success factor for ADI is the ability to form collaborative partnership with existing organizations. A successful intervention must be multidisciplinary, proactive and well co-coordinated – successful interventions must include attorneys who are able to provide legal support services, doctors who will document wounds and testify to their findings, police and social welfare professionals to ensure physical safety and mental health professionals to ensure psychological healing. All these groups working as a network can provide reliable and successful support system.

Set up an efficient monitoring and evaluating system, in which qualitative and quantitative data will be gathered, collected and analyzed.

ADI also hopes to strengthen any existing counselling, services available in the proposed community in addressing school related gender based violence, and to learn from and build on any weaknesses.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
Psycho-social counseling and training are core mandates of ADI. Counseling is the process of helping people to realize the potentials in them to solve their problems. It is important for ADI to seek the welfare of its clients and make children understand that they are heard, taken serious and most importantly are believed. The main goal in this area is to create a confidential and safe platform for School girls and boys survivors to air their feelings and experiences with a counselor who are equipped with the knowledge and skills in helping children to cope with their situation, through group counseling and individual counseling. Through the participation in supportive counseling and groups, survivors will realize they are not alone in their struggle against family violence and are able to learn new strategies for taking control over their lives.