PRESENTATION : MAPPING OF CHILDREN PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN SENEGAL

1. REPUBLIC OF SENEGALOne People - One Goal - One Faith ------------------MINISTRY OF WOMEN, CHILDREN AND WOMEN AND FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP------------------CHILDREN RIGHTS AND PROTECTION DIRECTORATE PRESENTATION: MAPPING OF CHILDREN PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN SENEGAL Conference on Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa Dakar, 7-9 May 2012 By: Mr. MAMADOU KEBE ,DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN RIGHTS AND PROTECTION

2. Overview 1. INTRODUCTION 2. MAPPING AND ANALYSIS OF PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN SENEGAL: PROCESS AND RESULTS 3. TOWARDS A NATIONAL INTEGRATED CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM

3. INTRODUCTION • Ratification by Senegal of substantially all international, regional and sub-regional legal instruments on CP; • Existence of a wide institutional framework for a better focus of all issues referring to children's rights; Nonetheless: • There is an increase in child abuse cases; • Fragmented initiatives and actions for the CP between institutions often creating duplication; • Lack of policy and unifying referential framework to regulate actions and service offerings for children by government and civil society stakeholders; • Provision of protection services not available to everyone because of a weak linkages at the national level; • Coordination difficulties between state stakeholders, CSOs

4. MAPPING AND ANALYSIS OF PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN SENEGAL: PROCESS AND RESULTS

5. Setting up coordination mechanisms (Management Committee composed of the State Civil Society and partners and a Technical Committee composed of state representatives and partners) Organization of a National Launching Workshop of mapping which enabled to implement a Group of Partners for Child Protection GPCP and to share objectives and expected results of the mapping Selection of a list of national experts of child protection by the technical committee as well as collection sites according to criteria defined by Child Frontiers Starting interviews with national experts by Child Frontiers team Organizations of information missions to administrative and local authorities in data collection sites Presentation of preliminary findings of the mapping to the GPCP Final Report Using the results of the mapping to define the SNPE orientations

6. MAIN FINDINGS OF MAPPING Lack of national policy framework on child protection Each department has its own strategies or responses according to its mandates and targets Lack of a strong leadership or not apparent in the area of CP Difficulties of coordination; lack of synergies Lack of clarity on the services for children and families Lack of a national system of information and database management Judicial services outnumbered welfare services Limited human and financial resources;

7. MAIN FINDINGS OF MAPPING Intervention strategies appear to be targeting specific categories of children (Street children, talibés, working children, victims of trafficking, excision children in conflict with law or at risk) At the community level, there are well-organized structures involved in conflict resolution but they have not established formal linkages with the formal system (State) Communities met faced child protection problems at community level and rarely request security or protection services

8. Services offered within the territory

10. NGOs Distribution

11. Recommendations • Develop a unifying national vision of child protection which defines a joint strategy and policy and clarifies the overall and specific objectives of the child protection system as a whole • Organize services at the local level based on the national framework based on strategies to provide services and not on the availability of field organizations • Guide strategies of individual organizations (NGOs and UN agencies) to a convergence in the sector, by clearly identifying the contribution of each in the functioning and results of the system • Consider regular meetings to enhance dialogue and coordination among all donors contributing in child protection and minimize unilateral programs by developing a joint and unitary position of child protection system

12. TOWARDS A NATIONAL INTEGRATED CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM • Interventions Harmonization and Coordination. • Strengthening policy, legal and statutory framework of child protection; • Strengthening protection services; • Developing awareness; social mobilization and advocacy actions for sustainable behavioural change; • Implementation of a monitoring and evaluation system; • DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF SNPE

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