UNICEF Yemen, Thematic Contribution to Child Protection Programme


Through this thematic multi-year contribution, SDC provides flexible funding to UNICEF’s Child Protection Pro-gramme in Yemen. This partnership integrates humanitarian and development efforts to strengthen child protec-tion systems, improve the quality of prevention and response services and promote positive behaviour change within communities. Ultimately, this initiative aims to create a safer and more protective environment for children and adolescents in Yemen.

Pays/région Thème Période Budget
Yemen
Aide humanitaire & RRC
Droits de la personne
Protection, accès & sécurité
Droits de la personne (y compris droits des femmes)
01.11.2024 - 31.12.2025
CHF  1’800’000
Contexte

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Yemen has led to wide-spread rights violations, civilian casualties, and large-scale displacements, with children disproportionally affected. Out of 18.2 million people in need, 53% are children who face significant risks, including threats from explosive ord-nances, child labour, recruitment and use by armed groups, and early and forced marriage. Birth registration rates re-main alarmingly low in Yemen and around 70% of children are not registered, rendering them invisible and particularly vulnerable. One of four children is out of school, therefore increasing their exposure to various child protection risks.

With its Child Protection Programme UNICEF addresses these issues at system, service and community levels.

Objectifs Children, including adolescents, and women care-givers are safer and better protected from violence, abuse, exploitation and harmful practices, includ-ing in humanitarian situations.
Groupes cibles

• Children and adolescents

• Caregivers

• Child Protection professionals

Effets à moyen terme Children, adolescents and women are safer and better protected from violence, abuse, exploitation and harmful practices.
Résultats

Principaux résultats attendus:  

Output 1: Child protection systems are better able to deliver equitable preventive and responsive services to improve children’s access to justice, birth registration and case man-agement.

Output 2: More children, including adolescents, and women and men at risk, including those in humanitarian situations access better quality preventive and protection services.

Output 3: Parents, caregivers, children, including adoles-cents, and their communities are better equipped to reduce risks and prevent violence, abuse, exploitation, and ad-dress harmful social norms and practices.


Principaux résultats antérieurs:   From October 2022 to October 2024, SDC has had a partnership with UNICEF to support the Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism for Children and Armed Conflict (MRM-CAAC). This new collaboration builds upon this previous project-based partnership and expands the scope through a thematic contribution to UNICEF’s child protection programme with the aim to enhance the overall protection of children affected by armed conflict and crisis.


Direction/office fédéral responsable DDC
Partenaire de projet Partenaire contractuel
Organisme des Nations Unies (ONU)
  • Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance

Partenaire de mise en œuvre
UNICEF

Coordination avec d'autres projets et acteurs

This collaboration complements existing partner-ships focused on the Protection of Civilians with Geneva Call, ICRC and UNHCR as well as Hu-manitarian Mine Action projects with Humanity and Inclusion and Halo Trust. It creates synergies with a project funded by SDC under the World Bank Multi Donor Trust Fund to support micro work for youth.

Furthermore, it reinforces SDC’s role as co-chair of the CAAC Group of Friends (GoF) for Yemen and supports Switzerland’s current role in the Se-curity Council and its upcoming membership in the Human Rights Council.

Budget Phase en cours Budget de la Suisse CHF    1’800’000 Budget suisse déjà attribué CHF    800’000 Budget y compris partenaires de projet CHF    44’550’000 Projet total depuis la première phase Budget de la Suisse CHF   0 Budget y compris partenaires de projet CHF   1’800’000