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Project Info – OVC

Brief

Promoting the well being of Vulnerable Children and their families through improved systems and structures of State and Local governments, and civil society organizations in Damaturu and Gujba LGAs of Yobe State, Nigeria.

WOCHDI has been engaged in activities set out in the work plan in the two LGAs within 30 communities selected for implementation. In its implementation process constituted carers’ forum with membership drawn from key community members, ‘Almajiri’, teachers, ward heads etc. We also recruited and trained 40 community volunteers and engaged them in identification, pre-enrollment and assessment of identified children.

Various partnerships have been built with community stakeholders aimed at sustaining the project to permit greater impact in the various communities. Implementation was for over a year with active community involvement. During this period, there have been a number of activities like kids club,education support, establishment of early childhood centre, food support, health support, birth registration, renovation of water and sanitation facilities and so on that have impacted greatly on the lives of the targeted children and the host communities at large. A great level of community acceptance and cooperation has been recorded from both Damaturu and Gujba LGAs which is a good indication for community ownership of project.

WOCHDI organised series of training for care workers in Child care skills, psychosocial support for VC, and child protection. The goal of the various trainings is to help care workers understand the dynamics around working with VC. This training at the 30 selected communities included topics such on the roles and functions of PSS; building resilience; loss, grief, and mourning; stress and coping mechanisms; listening and talking to distressed children; and childhood development, how to apply for birth certificates for VC in collaboration from Nigerian Population Commission (NPC) will help care givers to provide more support for VC in applying for their identity documents, birth registration and provide spiritual and psychosocial support to VC. WOCHDI trained community volunteers provided monthly home visits to VC to offer counselling and encouragement.

Educational support:Even though many states in Nigeria claim that basic education is free, there are still several hidden cost like school uniform, books, paying for extra lessons and other levies like PTA fees; these cost keep many vulnerable children out of school in several communities in Damaturu and Gujba LGAs of Yobe state. WOCHDI worked on improving the quality of OVC education quality rather than solely focusing on quantity. This project provide school bags,and stationery to vulnerable children whose needs have been identified as needing these. Today 227 VC can attend school regularly due to the peace of mind they have with regards to payment of fees, and other needed materials.

Facilitator for Kids Club Training For Damaturu and Gujba Local Government Areas. The training was meant to open the facilitator’s eyes on the need and importance of kids clubs in their schools and communities, where the kids meet at least once a week in their schools. The training was a success having 10 participants from the two LGAs.

Child protection and legal support workshop WOCHDI organised a day workshop on Child protection and legal support for community volunteers in Damaturu and Gujba local government to build the skills on birth registration and protection issues. This will help the state in domesticating the child right act. This workshop brought a great change to the community volunteers and encourages them to carryout the birth-registration exercise as a referral with National Population Commission of the state.

Achievements so far

  • Total Enrollment of OVC  as at date stands at males-739, females-568, total (1304).
  • Advocacies have been conducted in to community stakeholders in both Damaturu and Gujba LGA
  • Conduct mapping and assessment of VC and available services in the 30 communities.
  • Create a service provision directory for VC service providers: service directory was completed and printed: a data bank and referral service where the total information on the services being provided by WOCHDI in the two LGAs – Damaturu and Gujba and other stakeholders.
  • Conduct all the trainings mention in our proposal and step down training for our organisation staff to be on the same page.
  • -Birth registration and certificates for Vulnerable Children  was done in Damaturu and Gujba LGAs under a referral programme. About 1,868 Vulnerable Children were both registered and referred to National Population commission for a birth certificates
  • Provided food and nutritional support to various  68 VC – ( M=44 and F=24)
  • Supported 227 VC with educational support.
  • Provided 6 Health care kits to 6 primary-schools with total population of 12,610
  • A total of 21 community carers forums have been constituted and their capacities built on the aspect of the project.
  • A total of 50 teachers have been trained of PSS (25 from each LGA)
  • A total of 50 teachers have been trained on CTC approaches to serve as kid’s/youths club facilitators Damaturu and Gujba LGA.
  • Four (4) water facilities (1) wells and 3 hand pump borehole  have been rehabilitated in Gujba LGA targeting children population of  2,995 VC ( M-1004   F-1995)
  • There have been kid’s/youth club activities in Damaturu and Gujba LGA reaching over 200 children monthly. From this activity we had 4 football teams formed in Katarko community with team named as Katarko United, Katarko Pillars, Katarko City and Katarko Manchester and have been playing matches that attracts attention
  • Skill Acquisition for 6 older VC in Damaturu and Gujba LGAs and the 6 Older VC has been empowered with take off grant for economic empowerment.
  • Establishment of early childhood centres in Damaturu and Gujba LGAs to promote Intellectual and physical development of children.
  • Monthly meeting with volunteers and carers forum to review the activities lined up for the month in their communities, possible challenges and to discuss way forward
  • Skills training in small businesses and economic empowerment for 56 household caregivers. Economic activities include boosting of  firewood businesses, local oil extraction, frying of Bean cake ‘kose’, selling of kolanut, petty daily needs etc – for Project sustainability we Distributed of 44 female goats- for 44 HH caregivers targeting 183 VC ( M=99 and F=88)
  • Monitoring and Evaluation- sustainability and Follow up Visits to Goniri, Kasaisa, Katarko and  Buni Gari  and several other Communities and organisations like National Directorate of employment
  • Publication of our project activities in  national dailies (The Nation Newspapers of Apr 19,2012  and daily trust newspapers of Wednesday April 18,2012, The Daily Trust Newspapers of Wednesday June 13,2012  and page 16 of daily Independent newspapers of Tuesday June 12 ,2012,
  • CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP ON ADVOCACY ON CHILD SURVIVAL IN NIGERIA ORGANIZED BY BORNO COALITION FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS (BOCODEP) WITH SUPPORT FROM ENHANSE PROJECT, ABUJA, 15TH -16TH AUGUST, 2007 AT NANNM COMPLEX, DAMATURU, NIGERIA (PARTICIPANT)
  • 2-DAY WORKSHOP / CAPACITY BUILDING FOR ADVOCACY FOR CHILD SURVIVED FOR  CSOS IN NIGER ORGANIZED BY BORNO COALITION  FOR DEMOCRACY AND PROGRESS (BOCODEP) WITH SUPPORT FROM ENHANCE PROJECT USAD NIGERIA 15TH -16TH AUGUST 2007 (PARTICIPANT)
  • HCT COUNSELLOR STEP DOWN TRAINING WORKSHOP BY APIN PEPFAR /MASHIAH FOUNDATION. MAY 5TH TO 10TH,2009 AT ROCK FIELD MOTEL- RAYFIELD BUKURU BY PASS, JOS (PARTICIPANT)
  • EU- INSIDE, (INCREASING NON-STATE ACTORS’ IMPLEMENTION AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE) NORTH-EAST ZONE STAKEHOLDER MEETING,15TH-16TH JUNE,2009 AT AWALAH HOTEL, BAUCHI (PARTICIPANT)
  • EU-INSIDE (INCREASING NON-STATE ACTORS’ IMPLEMENTION AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERTISE) NORTH-EAST ZONE ROAD MAP CONSULTATION,17TH-18TH SEPTEMBER,2009 AT JIYAMERE HOTEL, GOMBE (PARTICIPANT)
  • STRENGTHENING COORDINATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ORPHAN AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN (OVC) NPA,SOP AND PPA IN GOMBE,ADAMAWA,BORNO,YOBE AND TARABA STATE ORGANIZED BY CARE FOR LIFE(CFL) IN COLLABORATION WITH GOMBE STATE UNICEF- ASSISTED PROGRAMMES WITH SUPPORT  FROM UNICEF,21ST OCTOBER 2009 AT NUJ SECRETARIAT, DAMATURU YOBE STATE. (PARTICIPANT)
  • PSYCHOSOCIAL SKILL TRAINING FOR NGOS,CBOS AND CAREGIVERS OF ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN NIGERIA ORGANIZED BY FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WOMEN AFFAIRS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AT CIRCULAR HOTEL,ILORIN KWARA STATE,15TH-19TH NOVEMBER,2009 (PARTICIPANT)
  • COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO MALAMATARI,YOBE STATE ON WATER TREATMENT,OVC ENROLLMENT AND SOCIAL WELFARE MATERIAL DISTRIBUTION  MARCH 2010
  • 4 DAY LEARNING TOUR TO JDPC IJEBU ODE ,OGUN STATE NIGERIA FOR KEY BUDGET NETWORK  SPONSORED BY EU-SUPPORT TO REFORMING INSTITUTION PROGRAMME, YOBE STU OFFICE,-SEPT 2010 (PARTICIPANT)
  • EU-INSIDE  DIRECT CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING WORKSHOP ON ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.FOR  NSAS IN NORTH-EAST ZONE DATE: OCTOBER 17TH-  24TH, 2010 VENUE:  ZARANDA HOTEL, BAUCHI.- (PARTICIPANT)
  • ZONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP ON WOMEN, GIRLS, GENDER EQUALITY & HIV(NORTH EAST ZONE)ORGANISED BY NATIONAL AGENCY FOR CONTROL OF AIDS IN COLLABORATION WITH UNAIDS & UNIFEM AT JIYAMERE SUITES, GOMBE, NIGERIA FROM 22ND– 23RD NOV.,2010 – (PARTICIPANT)
  • 2 DAY TRAINING WORKSHOP OF NGO & CBO ON VOTER EDUCATION AND MOBILIZATION ORGANISED BY RAHAMA WOMEN DEVELOPMENT PROGAMME,BAUCHI AT DEC AUDITORIUM BAUCHI ,13TH– 14TH JANUARY,2011 (PARTICIPANT)
  • 2  DAY TRAINING FAMILY LIFE & HIV EDUCATION (FLHE) WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY ASSOCIATION OF REPRODUCTIVE AND FAMILY HEALTH (ARFH) AT JIYAMERE SUITES, GOMBE, 16TH – 18TH OCTOBER, 2011 (PARTICIPANT)
  • USAID NECAIN PROJECT FINANCIAL TRAINING FOR PARTNERS  AT GAAT HOTELS, DAMATURU YOBE STATE,NIGERIA FROM 16TH – 21ST OCTOBER ,2011(PARTICIPANT)
  • 2 DAY TRAINING ON BUDGET,POLICY,PROJECT MONITORING AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURE TRACKING FOR CSOS BY SAVI AT BAUCHI, NOV ., 2012 (PARTICIPANT)
  • 3 DAY ACCOUNTABILITY  AND VOICE INITIATIVE ORGANIZED BY STATES ACCOUNTABILITY AND VOICE INITIATIVE (SAVI) AT JAMEEL GUEST PALACE, BAUCHI FROM 20-23RD 2013 (PARTICIPANT)