SFP illustrative example 1

Responding with the SFP: The local team have identified four foundational interventions from the SFP for the first cycle, which will be implemented with local partners. They plan to use the 30% flexible funding to add Channels of Hope Gender, and fund additional interventions through PNS and grants.

Context and community priorities: The assessment and design process found drought and poverty as key contextual issues. These are pushing communities into negative practices including child labour and child marriage. Registered children are in the 6-18 age range.

As well as the specific integrations mentioned above, the team work to strengthen CP Groups and Reporting and Referral Mechanisms, with a particular focus on child labour and child marriage.

• How does participating in these interventions enable people to see themselves as having assets and capacities, being made in the image and likeness of God?
• What broken / dysfunctional attitudes and relationships contribute to the identified issues and how will the intervention restore the purposeful vision as God intended? In the process, what opportunities are available to demonstrate love and care for others (motivated by faith?)

TD Core integration

They also ensure all the interventions:

• are inclusive and GEDSI-sensitive
• address safeguarding

• integrate EWV principles wherever appropriate, with reflections on:

Child/Adolescent

Child Development, Learning and Participation

• IMPACT+ groups including core child protection themes. PNS funding: Extended to include Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) module

• Play Clubs (0-6) and Reading clubs (6-12), including stories bringing out CP, EWV and GEDSI messages, building literacy skills for vulnerable children
• Children’s groups to advocate as part of the ENOUGH campaign

Communities

Regreening Communities supports the community to build resilience and restore their environment through natural resource management in the face of drought conditions, protect and grow crops and livestock. EWV sessions are facilitated with the Regreening Committee and community groups to build individual and collective efficacy.

Local institutions

Citizen Voice and Action (CVA) used to advocate for provision of school meals and improvements to child protection and access to quality education services

• Adolescents are engaged in the CVA group, and the children’s advocacy group is linked

Grant funding: improve school quality (Teacher Training) and safety (Safer Schools)

Considerations for future cycles and/or alternative funding:

The programme will actively seek grant funding for additional livelihoods and resilience work to build on S4T groups. Conditional cash could be used to help help keep girls in school and support their transition to secondary education .

Caregivers/Families

Savings for Transformation to help build economic resilience, and lay the foundation for income-generating activities

• Including adolescent savings groups to help girls and boys support their own secondary education
• Supplemental child protection education for S4T groups

Child Development, Learning and Participation caregiver groups work on child labour and child marriage SFP flex funding: Channels of Hope Gender mobilises faith leaders and congregations to combat harmful gender norms