Training on Safe Guard Policy of Youth & Child

Training on safe guard policy of youth & child

USS organized the safe guard policy training on youth & child supported by Plan International Bangladesh where participated front & mid level staffs at Community learning center – Jaldhaka, Nilphamari on 6 & 7^th June 2018 to practices ‘Child Centered Community Development approach” (CCCD) in different projects and ensure the youth & child protection. The participants came from Rupantor -Hatibandha, Dhaka Ahsania mission (DAM)-Jaldhaka, different project staffs of USS including CRP project of Jaldhaka and union level Youth & Child network members under CRP of USS. Total 28 participants were actively participated in the training. The training was facilitated by SM Abdul Quader Child Protection Specialist of Plan international Bangladesh RDO Rangpur & Kaykobad Hossain Project Coordinator CRP project of USS .The objectives were below:

• To build critical understanding  on  safe guard policy  for Project Staffs’
•  Making Participants able to play proactive role as child protector at community level.

1^st day: Facilitator asked to the participants “Memories of memorable childhood event” and told them to describe the situation. Then facilitator asked them to draw a child picture who is dear as per their perception.  Participants have drawn the picture as per facilitator instruction. Then it was hanged in the wall for compression the perception from each others. Facilitator finds out physical, mental, knowledge and social development of child from description of participants. Participants identified the various types of   abuse such as , Physical, Mental , sexual  & neglect child abuse through seeing picture and group discussion. At last they also indentified the cause of abuse in their own context and develop to protection mechanism to involvement with community.

2^nd Day:  After recap the session on previous day then some resources persons (girls & boys) have facilitated the session on their selected issues. Their facilitation was excellent from views to participants and all resources persons were very confident to facilitate the process. Facilitator described the objectives of safe guard policy through lecture methods & also alignment programmatic intervention of their own project through group discussion. Participants indentified the considering issue to design the program & also considering issue of implementing the program view to safe guard policy. Participants identified what to do & what don’t to do for child in everywhere.

Some expressions of participants were below to;

I am very happy to attend the training, in previously we took various types of training for development but it was different to facilitation process and it was totally new for me. I will try to replicate the knowledge in our project………… Md Jomil Project Coordinator, SOS project -Nilphamari.

I am very excited to see the presentation of girls that they will know how to develop training & learning mechanism selected topics.  It was new me that participants have played the role of trainers------- Kallani Roy – Gender equality Project – Nilphamari.

This training was new to me. As a development worker I tried my best to learn more from this training and it will be helpful to play role and responsibility in my union on child protection issues ……… Airin Akter, Youth & Child Network member of Khutamara union under Jaldhaka upazila.