Interinstitutional cooperation and advocacy for the protection of children victims of sexual abuse and violence

Project facts

Project promoter:
Save the Children Organization România(RO)
Project Number:
RO-ACTIVECITIZENS-0237
Status:
In implementation
Initial project cost:
€149,978
Other Project Partners
General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection District 6th Bucharest(RO)
Programme:

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Description

The project answers to the problem of retraumatizing and revictimizing of the abused child (sexually or other types of abuse). According to ANDPDCA in the first 9 months of 2020 there were more than 10.600 child abuse, neglect and exploitation cases. The situation is overly concerning since abused child retraumatizing takes place because of the lack of a multidisciplinary approach in services provided and a proper space for evaluating and hearing the children. The project aims to facilitate the improvement of the awareness of 7000 people concerning children’s rights and also to implement the Icelandic Barnahus intervention model in this field This model will be piloted in a centre that will be opened in Bucharest and that will serve at least 100 children. Will be organized roundtables with local authorities for good practices sharing in Bucharest, Iasi and Timisoara, 25 education sessions for students for strengthening the perspective of human rights, equal treatment and combating all forms of abuse,  will be created a platform to promote children`s rights and reporting of situations of violation of children''s rights and will be operationalized and equip a Barnahus pilot-centre that will provide multidisciplinary services for abused children within the new centre. In order to strengthen the organizational capacity of Promoter in replicating these method.10 employees will be trained in the implementation of the Barnahus method by international specialists.

The platform and the Barnahus pilot-center will be available on a period of at least 5 years after the completion of the project by S experts. Save the Children Romania’ main purpose is the protection and promotion of child rights and assurance regarding child protection, in compliance with UN Convention and the Partener is a public institution that ensures the compliance with child rights through counselling services, proposes and applies special protection measures for children in difficult situations.   

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