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Enhancing Psychosocial Support and Rights Protection for Vulnerable Communities

This document outlines crucial strategies for improving psychosocial support (PSS), protection, and human rights for vulnerable groups, including orphans, elderly, and widows. Key areas addressed include mental health care, education, economic empowerment, and community mobilization. Identified gaps highlight the need for better funding, geographic coverage, and reliable data. Suggested strategies emphasize enhancing community structures, mental health services, and legal protections, alongside partnerships with various stakeholders to strengthen social safety nets and empower individuals.

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Enhancing Psychosocial Support and Rights Protection for Vulnerable Communities

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  1. Group 3 Psychosocial support, Protection and Human Rights Dr Oketch

  2. 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

  3. Vulnerable Groups (Who?) • Widows/widowers • Widowers • OVCs (CHHs,street kids, IDPs etc • Elderly • Community

  4. Services 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

  5. GAPS • 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

  6. 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

  7. STRATEGIES • 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

  8. 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

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

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