Amani campaign: interagency child protection and GBV campaign
Jordan child protection and SGBV sub-working groups
Highlights
Since the Syrian crisis began in 2011, close to 2.5 million people have registered to receive assistance and protection in neighbouring countries. People have been fleeing to Jordan on a daily basis, numbers rising and falling along with the level of danger involved in reaching the border. As of late February, 2014, more than 574,410 Syrians were registered with UNHCR in Jordan and are now living in camps, informal settlements, rural or urban settings. Of the registered refugees, almost half are children.
This document contains key messages for communities, children and parents, on how to better protect children and adults from harm and various kinds of violence. The information is grouped according to various child protection (CP) and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) issues that have been identified as the most urgent at this point in the crisis, and according to the information currently available.
These messages were developed by the Child Protection and SGBV sub-working groups, drawing from examples from other contexts, testing in Jordan and revision based on FGD with children, women and men in Zaatari camp and in urban settings. Their revision and the ongoing development of associated tools has been led by Save the Children, IRC, UNFPA, UNICEF and UNHCR under the interagency project “Strengthening GBV and child protection services and systems”.
