Group 3Group 3

Psychosocial support, Protection Psychosocial support, Protection and Human Rightsand Human Rights

Dr OketchDr Oketch

Background (Definition)Background (Definition)

• Education and OVC• Mental and emotional care• Provision of basic needs (food security, shelter)• Protection of legal and ethnical rights and social

rights of the vulnerable• Economical empowerment of the vulnerable• Community mobilisation/advocacy/IEC for PSS• Overall social protection of the vulnerable i.e

safety nets, social security

Vulnerable Groups (Who?)Vulnerable Groups (Who?)

• Widows/widowers

• Widowers

• OVCs (CHHs,street kids, IDPs etc

• Elderly

• Community

Services AvailableServices Available

• Counselling (VCT, RCT, mental rehabilitation etc)

• Protection and Law enforcement• Provision of basic needs e.g construction of

shelter, clothing, food• Education of OVCs, IGAs• Home based care for OVCs, elderly and PHAs• Community education/advocacy

GAPSGAPS

• Inadequate budget allocation for some districts• Limited geographical coverage of PSS• Limited reliable data on OVCs• Inadequate coverage of populations in emergency

situations (IDPs, Pastrolists)• Inadequate protection of children and elderly• Inadequate provision of basic needs to the vulnerable• Limited involvement of the existing community structures

in the provision and monitoring of PS• Weak mental health services in and out of the health

system

GAPS Cont……GAPS Cont……• Inadequate social protection measures e.g medical

subsidies and the provident assistances• Inadequate provision and protection of the rights of

PHAs, OVCs, unineffected (discordance, willfull transmission, property grabbing, PMTCT/breast feeding, status disclosure, gender and human rights, research ethics etc)

• Inadequate trained personnel in child counselling• Insufficient training in life skills• Inadequate coordination and networking in provision of

PS• High house hold poverty

STRATEGIESSTRATEGIES

• Intensify sensitisation of communities and stakeholders on the rights and responsibilities of children and parents

• Strengthening the community structures in provision and protection of social rights

• Strengthen mental health services in and out of the health systems and communities

• Strengthening research and partnerships on PSS• Empowerment of women, men and children on self

protection against abuses• Review and simplify existing laws and procedure and

disseminate the user friendly versions

Strategies Cont…..Strategies Cont…..

• Improve PS support programmes coverage through outreaches and existing community structures (religious places, community radio, drama)

• Training counsellors in life skills • Community economic empowerment eg IGAs, CHAIs• Education of the vulnerable (UPE, USE, Para legal

education• Innovative approaches in provision of PPS

PartnersPartners

• GoU – Line ministries• UNICEF• UAC• NGOs• UN agencies• INGOs• FBOs• Research institutions• AIDS Funding partners• Micro Finance Institutions• Private sector