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Migration route project

Migration route project

Ce nouveau projet dénommer provisoirement « Enfants et Jeunes sur les routes migratoires en Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest », est financer par Le gouvernement suisse (Confédération Suisse, Département Fédéral des Affaires Etrangères (DFAE), Département du Développement et de la Coopération (DDC) qui a décidé de participer sur du long terme à la protection des jeunes et des enfants sur les routes migratoires. De renforcer l’accès à l’éducation et aux opportunités de formations et d’emploi.

Elle est mise en œuvre par le consortium Helvetas, Terre des Homme, GIZ, avec un groupe de partenaires dont MAEJT, Enda JA, SSI-AO, MDM, MMC et SSI international. Le projet est sectionné en 3 phase dont une phase préparatoire, une 1ère phase de mise en œuvre et une 2eme phase le tout pour une durée de 12ans a conter de 2021. Le MAEJT avec son structure d’appui Enda JA interviennes de maniérer transversale sur tous ce qui est protection, autonomisation, éducation, formation professionnelle et participations des enfants et jeunes en mobilité dans ce projet 

Since the foundation of AMWCY in July 1994, the AMWCY thrive to ensure the protection of her members including the peers and friends in the various communities especially the marginalize ones. 

The movement having working with divers children and young people in the aim to ameliorate their living condition, protecting themselves and their peers. Nevertheless, WCY2s carried out so many actions with other children in their home villages and cities and, since that period, 460 Associations (AWCY3) are active and assuring the protection of their fellow despite the situation of the children they are in contact with. All along this journey of life, especially for children and young people, they are exposed to numerous dangers of which sexual exploitation, economic exploitation and abuses are among 2/5 first consequences attached to migration. Many more children and young people are exposed to this phenomenon in the working place, school, village and their daily habitation. Trending on the information as a result of discussion had with the WCYs of recent about SEOC, SGBV, VAC and economic exploitation of a child, they exclaimed that the children themselves are not listened to and there are many out there that doesn’t know to what extent, how many children affected in their community, existing community mechanism and for those who know, they had insufficient capacity in identification, reporting, referral, monitoring and evaluating the progress. There is lack of documentation of the potential zones of economic and sexual exploitation in Africa to inform both community actors and mechanisms, children and young people of it severity and how it affects many other children.  

We found out that there is very limited resource and supports from the government, limited resource allocated for the management of cases, monitoring and referral of cases even at municipal level.     

In some cases, the community mechanisms are not known and most of the time, there is timid supports by the community mechanism and government officials all in cause of weak political wills. The responses at the community level is so shallow as a result of very scanty expertise/social workers/actors at proximate and immediate environments of scene and best practices are almost not shared by any of the evolving agencies. Communication and awareness raising tools such as child friendly tools are missing to get in touch with the children themselves. All this are areas where this project looks forward to addressing as a result to extend protection to 145, 800 children and young people, both girls and boys victim of economic and sexual exploitation 27 African countries, moreover turns victims to actors as a result double the number of community actors and mechanisms at community level for the protection of children. Influence political decision and resource allocations for the well-being of children and young people by 2021.      

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Pan African State Accountability Project (PASAP)

Pan African State Accountability Project (PASAP)

Africa has made significant progress in the promoting and protecting of children’s rights and gender equality over the last many years. The continent has put in place legal and policy frameworks to further strengthen Africa’s commitment to protect and promote the rights of boys and girls. Some of the principal African instruments for children and youth include the African Charter on the rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC), the African Charter on Human and People’s rights (ACHPR), the Protocol to the African charter on Human and People’s rights of women in Africa (Maputo protocol); and the African Youth Charter (AYC). Additional instruments and mechanisms on child rights and gender equality have also been developed and established at the level of the regional economic communities (RECs). A lot of African countries have ratified most of these instruments that allow for promotion and protection of the rights and welfare of children. This has led to the gradual progress in the realization of children’s rights and gender equality in the continent. However, there remains an alarming gap between policy making and policy implementation which in turn has implications on the realization of children’s rights in the continent. Many States fail to adequately live up to the standards set by these treaties, thus enabling widespread violence/discrimination among children and particularly girls. 

The Pan African state Accountability Project (PASAP) is a multi-partner, multi-level Pan-African project that aims at strengthening civil societies in Africa to hold their state accountable in the promotion and protection of children rights in Africa. The project is overall coordinated by Plan International African Union Liaison Office (AULO) with a support from the two regional offices of Middle East, East Africa and Southern Africa (MESSA) and West and Central Africa Hub (WACAH).  Currently, the project is on its second phase which started on 1st of July 2019. 

The first implementation year of PASAP Phase II started on the 1st of July 2019 and ended on the 30th of June 2020. The Second implementation year started on the 1st of July 2020 and will end on the 30th of June 2021.  

The added Value of the AMWCY is to ensure the participation of children and youth themselves and holding the states accountable for the respect of child rights.  

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Capacity building of grassroots groups

Capacity building of grassroots groups

The African Movement of Working Children and Youth (MAEJT) is engaged in a 2017-2021 CSO capacity building project with Save The Children on Swedish AIDS funding since. The AMWCY is now expanding across cities, villages, slums and peripheries of African countries. The identification and accompaniment of grassroots groups or working children’s groups (WCGs) are the driving force behind this growth. Each year, the number of new grassroots groups increases, but so does the number of working children and youth (WCYs).

This growth is explained by the important role of the movement in the training and capacity building of WCYs at the grassroots. Also because the foundation of the movement is the citizen participation of children, especially those marginalized in their communities and by the public initiatives of the state systems.

To guarantee the sustainability of this growth, the grassroots continually need periodic and quality reinforcement at all levels of the AMWCY structure. To do this, the AMWCY has at its disposal, both within itself and with its partner (Enda), the necessary expertise to respond precisely and efficiently to the real needs of the members of the GBs and National Coordinations (NCs).

The capacity building of the grassroots groups and the National Coordinations (NCs) should enable to boost the grassroots actions, but also to collect the results of the field exercises during the current year. The VAT (Technical Support Visit) to the NCs is an opportunity to bring together WCYs who are representative of the AWCYs of a country.  It is an opportunity to take stock of the activities carried out on the results of the activities, to note the progress on the rights during this period, but also to share experiences of identification, protection, listening and taking care of the groups of accompanied children. It allows us to draw lessons from the collaboration, partnership and advocacy actions of the NCs. It also serves to take stock of the mobilization of resources and their management.