Impact
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A girl drives goats home from grazing and watering in 2001. Water points closer to villages decrease the personal risk involved in walking, and increases the ability of girls to engage in other activities such as attending school and recreation. |
Results from the four projects (Child protection, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, Youth Development and Participation, and Communication for Development) within the Communication, protection and participation (CPP) programme during the 2001-2003 country programme were:
- Increased understanding of and subsequent response to child protection issues through a comprehensive child protection study.
- Reintegrating former child soldiers into society in partnership with local non-govermental organizations (NGOs). This includes vocational training, building conflict resolution skills and trauma counselling.
- Collecting data on the impact of small arms and related violence on children.
- Developing a mine risk education strategy using a knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) study conducted jointly by UNICEF and Handicap International.
- Making sexually-transmitted infection (STI) kits and drugs available in sentinel sites (locations where the number of HIV/AIDS infected men, women and children are monitored); training on managing STIs; providing counselling; and supporting authorities in launching a campaign to raise awareness of STIs.
- Establishing and maintaining HIV/AIDS networks (local administrative projects) and holding quarterly HIV/AIDS coordination meetings for key stakeholders in the Northwest, Northeast and Central and Southern administrative areas of UNICEF operations in Somalia (these areas are commonly referred to as 'zones').
- Drafting a National Strategic Framework for HIV/AIDS and STIs, and related action plans.
- Increasing understanding of the religious and social barriers to eradicating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and gaining consensus among local authorities, elders, religious leaders, health workers, women, youth and educators on total eradication.
- Establishing and maintaining youth groups and providing recreational opportunities and Leadership and Organizational Development (LOD) skills training.
- Continued the implementation of programme communication and social mobilization strategies to enhance programme impact and focus on promoting behaviour change.
