VaCNets Virtual Hub

The Eastern Africa Agency, Social and Gender Norms Learning Collaborative is excited to announce the 2024 Annual Conference to be in attended in person in Kampala, Uganda and on several virtual platforms. For more information and to register to attend this event, visit the link below: https://lnkd.in/d3f_VPki

Event Update: The Peer Experience Sharing on Writing Case Studies Using Program Knowledge on Prevention of Violence Against Children Webinar is scheduled for tomorrow. We have 3 guest speakers. You are hereby invited to register to attend with the link below: https://lnkd.in/due7-kNk

Do you know of any innovative approach in your country that is proven to permanently solve the problem of children living and working on streets? If yes, share them with us at VaCNets Virtual Hub and allow us highlight your evidence-based research on our virtual hub. VaCNets Virtual Hub is the central repository and networking platform on promising practises and emerging evidence on violence against children (VAC) work in East Africa. https://lnkd.in/eCpsES2E

In reaching out to families, kisedet adopted the Adult and Child Together- Raising Safe Kids behavioral change training program while targeting parents that exhibited violent and or rude behavior to their children. KISEDET rescued, rehabilitated and reunified 430 children formerly on streets with their families; 40 youth freed from addictions; and transformed parent -child communication among 131 parents. If you are curious to know how this was achieved, visit this the VaCNets Virtual Hub https://lnkd.in/dAqhbG4D

Kigwe Socio Economic Development and Training kisedet decision to implement Kizazi Kipya in Dodoma, Tanzania was informed by 2018 head count report on children living and working on streets jointly conducted by Ipsos Railway Children Africa, KISEDET, Safina Street Network, Pact Tanzania and the Government. KISEDET intervention was structured starting with rescue process where staff went to streets and familiarize with individual children through conversation to obtain background information used to generate individual children’s profiles. Read more about this evidence-based resource and more on the VaCNets Virtual Hub using the link below. https://lnkd.in/dAqhbG4D

Do you know of any innovative approach in your country that is proven to permanently solve the problem of children living and working on streets? Share your evidence-based research to our virtual hub or send us an email on vacnetsvirtualhub@iidc.org https://lnkd.in/eCpsES2E Remember, VaCNets Virtual Hub is the central repository and networking platform on promising and emerging evidence on violence against children work in East Africa.

In Mbeya region, implementation ofKizazi Kipya program between 2017- 2021 was led by CARITAS Mbeya with a focus on the family, the street and the Youth in 38 wards. The intervention transformed for the better lives of adolescent children rescued from the streets in thousands and their families. All this work is supported by orginasations committed to creating transformative change in Africa like Caritas Caritas Internationalis Read more about this evidence-based research on the VaCNets Virtual Hub, the central repository for evidence-based research and resources on violence against children preventation. https://lnkd.in/dvjEzuhm

Children living and working on streets in Tanzania was one of the priorities of action in the 2017/18 2021/22 National Plan of Action to End Violence Against Women and Children. Kizazi Kipya intervention was developed by Tanzania Government in collaboration with CSOs as one of the key strategies to address the challenge of Children living and working on streets. Read more about this evidence-based research on the VaCNets Virtual Hub using this link https://lnkd.in/dvjEzuhm We acknowledge and appreciate the work done by Caritas and all member organisations.

Did you know that you too can prevent child marriage by playing a video game? The Ni3 Centre in Uganda hosted by Makerere university, Department of Social Work and Social  Administration, pioneered the development & testing  of a prosocial video game (PEACE), aimed at  changing negative social norms permissive of child  marriage among teenage children in Uganda. Read not about it on our vacnets virtual hub, the central repository for evidence based research on preventation of violence against children. https://lnkd.in/dJtGkqcU

Collaboration call. PVAC organisations, ministries, individuals and all stakeholders are welcome to share their evidence reports and resources to the vacnets virtual hub. This hub is the central repository or promising evidence on PVAC practises. https://lnkd.in/eCpsES2E