Seeds
The Seeds approach supports community-led child protection by helping communities identify the challenges children face, build on existing strengths and develop locally driven solutions. By increasing community ownership and participation, Seeds contributes to stronger and more sustainable child protection systems and more resilient communities.
Through Seeds, Nyamojwok is using her experiences to become a role model for others in South Sudan.
Why
Conflict often breaks down the systems and structures that help protect children, exposing them to many grave risks including family separation, violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation and recruitment into armed groups.
Communities are often best placed to identify risks, protect children and respond to their needs. Community-led child protection can be sustainable, cost-effective and capable of reaching large numbers of children. But building these systems takes time, meaning that in the immediate aftermath of a crisis, organisations often rely on approaches that are designed and led by people outside a community.
Latest news from Seeds
- Child protection
Development process of a context-specific instrument to measure children's sense of protection (PROTECT)
Violence against children (VAC) is a global problem, and the development of empirical methods to better understand its nature is a step towards tackling this challenge.
- Child protection
Protection of children in Bogotá, Colombia: A feasibility study of a community-led child protection approach
Globally, about one billion children experience violence, affecting individuals, families, communities, and society. In Colombia, ongoing conflict and drug-related armed violence drive high violence rates.
- Child protection
The Development of a Community‐Led Child Protection Approach in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries
Child protection actors, including community members, work to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, neglect and the exploitation of children. Child protection approaches implemented by nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and other agencies are often located in communities but are not led by those communities. This limits contextual relevance and sustainability.
- Child protection
Protocol for a mixed-method effectiveness evaluation of the community-led child protection approach (Seeds) in La Guajira, Colombia
The aim of this mixed-methods study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-led child protection approach (Seeds) in La Guajira, Colombia.
- Child protection
A systematic review of the literature on community-level child protection in low- and middle-income countries
This systematic review synthesizes the current state of literature on community-level child protection in LMICs. The aim of the review was to present available evidence and effective strategies that implementing agencies can use to support community-level structures, practices, resources and processes.
