Benin/Alarming state of the enjoyment of children's rights in Atacora leads Fee-Développement to take community action
A workshop on advocacy for the official recognition of members of community child protection mechanisms (CEMs), which was opened by the official in charge of the Atacora prefect, Maguidi Kora Gbéré, brought together on Friday in Tanguiéta, the mayors of the five communes of intervention of the Impact-Elle programme, the child protection focal points, the heads of social promotion centres and representatives of NGOs working in the protection sector.
The workshop organized by the NGO Women, Children and Environment for Development (FEE-D), with the technical and financial support of Plan Belgium and the Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD) through Plan International Benin, aims to define a legal framework for the members of these associations.ration Belge au Développement (DGD) through Plan International Benin, aims to define a legal framework for the members of community childThe project, with technical and financial support from Plan Belgium and the Belgian Development Cooperation (DGD) through Plan International Benin, aims to define a legal framework for the members of community child protection mechanisms, the parents' associations (APE) and the associations of mothers of pupils (AME), to ensure that they are able to participate in the development of their children's rights.The project aims at defining a legal framework for the members of community child protection mechanisms, parents' associations (APE) and associations of mothers of pupils (AME), for a more effective fight against gender-based violence (GBV), in particular, early pregnancies and marriages, including the formation and functioning of alert committees.
As an integral part of the Impact-Elle project's implementation, the workshop also allowed the participants to see the relevance of recognizing CEM in the child protection chain, especially at the community level, and to examine the draft decree that will subsequently be issued by the mayors of the five project intervention municipalities.
The Executive Director of Fee-Développement, Mama Sourokou, recalled the gloomy picture of child protection in Atacora, with testimonies that are chilling. He emphasized the important role of community mechanisms in collecting data, alerts and others.
"The mid-term evaluation of the Impact-Elle programme noted the importance of community protection mechanisms and stressed the urgent need to define a legal framework for their members.The mid-term evaluation of the Impact-Elle programme has highlighted the importance of community protection mechanisms and the urgency of defining a legal framework for their protection and the credibility of their actions," said the coordinator of the Impact-Elle programme at Plan International Benin, in order to show the merits of this workshop. Omer Hounmongbo, also praised the commitment of all the actors, while emphasizing the actions of Plan Benin in favour of children.
The representative of the prefect of Atacora, Maguidi Kora Gbéré and the mayor of the town of Matéri, Robert Wimbo KASSA, were delighted with this initiative and reassured of the diligence that will be done for the official taking of acts, notably the communal decrees.
It should be noted that in addition to the presentations on the results of the Impact-Elle program and the reason for the CEMP, the CPS managers gave testimonies on the practical interventions of these mechanisms.
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