Directorate of Children's Affairs
Overview
The Directorate of Children Affairs seeks to promote the development of a coalition of efforts in transforming services, providing and coordinating child and social protection in The Gambia. The Directorate emphasizes and pursues a child protection systems approach by establishing viable and vibrant child protection and development services.
The Directorate, in partnership with the relevant sectors and child-focused CSOs will scale-up the systems approach to child protection initiatives in the country. Despite the significant efforts and well-intentioned child protection policies, Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs), laws and strategies (e.g. the Children’s Act), the resultant effects are not being translated on the ground.
The Directorate will persuade the Government to provide significant budgetary and technical support to improve the capacities of core child protection actors to roll-out the children’s Act in the country.
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The Directorate of Children Affairs seeks to promote the development of a coalition of efforts to transform services providing child protection and development in The Gambia. This Directorate requires the collaborative efforts of partners on the harmonization of legal instruments to include current comprehensive child protection issues and violations (FGM/C, child marriage, child trafficking, children on the move, child exploitation, and child labor) for law enforcement.