MISSION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

(MCDP)

CHILDREN ON THE MOVE PROJECT

2017 -2019

DITTA WOREDA AND ARBA MINCH TOWN, GAMO GOFA ZONE

SNNPR

MARCH 2017
ARBA MINCH
 Table of Contents
1. Project Identification.....................................................................................................................1

2. Project summary...........................................................................................................................2

2.1 Overall goal...........................................................................................................................2

2.2 Objectives..............................................................................................................................2
2.3 Scope of the project...............................................................................................................2
2.4 Project input..........................................................................................................................3
2.5 Project duration.....................................................................................................................3
2.6 Project activities....................................................................................................................3
2.7 Targeted groups.....................................................................................................................4
2.8 Project outputs.......................................................................................................................5
3. Background and Justification........................................................................................................6

3.1 Background...........................................................................................................................6
3.2 Socio-economic situation of the project areas.......................................................................6
3.3 Justification...........................................................................................................................8
3.4 Objectives of the Project.....................................................................................................11
3.4.1 Long term objective(Goal)..........................................................................................11
3.4.2 Short term or specific objectives.................................................................................11
4. Project implementation strategies................................................................................................11

5. Project description.......................................................................................................................12

5.1 Location of the project.........................................................................................................12

5.2 Target groups......................................................................................................................13
5.3 Allocated fund.....................................................................................................................14
5.4 Project duration...................................................................................................................14
6. Project activities and targets........................................................................................................14

6.1 Preparatory activities...........................................................................................................14

6.2 Operational activities...........................................................................................................14
6.3 Major Activities to be implemented at the Target Areas.....................................................17
7. Physical plan...............................................................................................................................19

8. Project inputs...............................................................................................................................22

8.1 Human resources.................................................................................................................22

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 8.2 Material input......................................................................................................................23
8.3 Financial input.....................................................................................................................23
9. Organization and Management....................................................................................................31

9.1 Responsibility for implementation and funding...................................................................31

9.2 Responsibility for Project Monitoring and Evaluation........................................................31
9.2.1 Monitoring...................................................................................................................31
9.2.2 Evaluation....................................................................................................................32
9.3 Community participation.....................................................................................................32
9.4 Auditing and Reporting.......................................................................................................33
9.5 Responsibility for project property transfer on project termination.....................................33
10. Assumption and Risks & Mitigation Measure.............................................................................33

10.1 Assumption.........................................................................................................................33
10.2 Risks and Mitigation Measure.............................................................................................34
11. Sustainability and phase out strategies........................................................................................35

11.1 Sustainability Strategy.........................................................................................................35

11.2 Phase-Out Strategy..............................................................................................................36
Annex 1. Map of Ditta Woreda...........................................................................................................37

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ACRONYMS

BA Bachelor of Arts
BoFED Bureau of Finance and Economic Development
BoLSA Bureau of Labor and Social Affairs
BoWCA Bureau of Women Children and Affairs
CBO Community – based Organization
CC Community Conversation
CSA Children’s Situational Analysis
ETB Ethiopian Birr
ICT Information Communication Technology
IEC Information, Education and Communication
IGA Income Generating Activities
ILO International Labor Organization
IOM International Organization for Migration
MA Master of Arts
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MCDP Mission for Community Development Program
MEAL Monitoring Evaluation and Learning
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
PIA Participatory Impact Assessment
PRA Participatory Rural Appraisal
SACOs Saving and Credit Organizations
SCF Save the Children – Finland
TOR Terms of Reference
ToT Training of Trainers
TV Television
UNICEF United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund

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 1. Project Identification
Name of the project: Children on the Move

Location of the project: Ditta woreda &Arba Minch town, Gamo Gofa zone

Funding Agency: Save the Children International

Executing Agency Bureau of Finance and Economic Development and Bureau

of Women and Children Affairs in collaboration with
Target zone woreda and town administration

Implementing Agency Mission for Community Development Program (MCDP)

Type and number of beneficiaries:

Type of beneficiaries Trafficked and intercepted Children; Age 6-14 and
household and brokers in the interventionareas.

Total Number of beneficiaries

Direct Children: 2000; Household Head: 600

Gov’t Partners 510

Indirect Female: 6,000; Male: 4,000

Duration of the Project Three years (January1, 2017 - December 31, 2019)
Project Budget
Direct 12,855,191ETB (82.8%)
Indirect 2,666,697 ETB (17.2%)
Total 15,521,888 ETB (100%)
Contact Person
Head Office W/roMulu Haile:Executive Directress
Phone:Office 251 11 276 59 95,
Cell Phone +251-9 11 22 73 82,
Fax: 251 11 278 35 03
Email: mcdp@ethionet.et
mhaile@mcpethiopia.org or muluhagush@gmail
Skype: Mulu.MCDP

Project Office AtoLetsa Lela: Project Manager

Phone: Office + 251 -046-776-01-94
Cell Phone +251-9 12-04-96-81
Email: letsa.lela@yahoo.com

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 1. Project summary
1.1 Overall goal

The overall goal of this projectis to contribute to the reduction of child trafficking and child labor
abuses through reducing the vulnerability of children to labor exploitation and abuses through
empowering and supporting at risk families and children, and to prevent unsafe migration in
Ditta woreda and Arba Minch town.

1.2 Objectives
The project is designed to achieve the following objectives.

 To improve the knowledge, attitude and practice about risks of child migration among
1,000 child migrants, trafficked boys and girls through awareness raising/education
within the project period (2017-2019).

 To rehabilitate and integrate 1,000 children (boys and girls) to their families and place of
origin within the project period (2017 -2019).

 To strength the prevention and protective measures taken to alleviate unsafe child
migration through disseminating IEC materials and establishing one community
information hub in Arba Minch town within the project period (2017 -2019).

 To ensure proper implementation of relevant legislations that address the risks of unsafe
migration among child returnees and trafficked boys and girls at all levels at the project
operational areas at the end of the project period (2019).

 To establish and support cluster level child participation structures at the source area of
child trafficking (Ditta Woreda) within the project period

1.3 Scope of the project

Geographically the project covers sixteen kebeles in one woreda (Ditta) and one town
administration (Arba Minch). In terms of time, it is a three-year project (January 2017-December
2019). Thematically, it focuses on social problems with special emphasis on child
trafficking/child labor.

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 1.4 Project input
The project requires material, financial and human resources/inputs. The basic material inputs are
Desktop and Laptop computers, office furniture like desks, tables and chairs as well as package
of stationeries material and different tonners.

The total amount of financial input required for the project period is 15,521,888 ETB. The
budget will be mobilized from Save the Children International.

The human resources required by the project are mixes of people from different academic
backgrounds and project implementation and management experiences. A total of sixteen staffs
will be employed for the project.

1.5 Project duration

The project has three years life span: January 2017 - December 2019.

1.6 Project activities

The following are the major intended activities of the project.

 Community Conversation (CC) on Children on the Move using structured CC guides and
by trained CC facilitators
 Assessment on positive parenting practices and the role of mothers and fathers in child
upbringing
 Training of community para-social workers/health extension workers on positive
parenting and how to work with parents in culturally sensitive manner.
 Parenting discussion sessions among male and female care once in a month every year.
 Basic training for community based para-social workers and case workers from service
providing organizations on unsafe child migration and case management (including
best interest assessment and determination procedure).
 Construction of community based information hub/center using local materials and
equipping with computers, TV and Satellite dishes, indoor games as well as chairs and
print media on lessons and experiences in children on Move.
 Training on ICT for information hub users.
 Identification, interception, interim care and other psychosocial support for children on
the move who are separated from their primary care provider, as per the best interest of
the child.

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  On-going support and monitoring on situations of children who are reunified with their
family and community to enable them continue their basic education and maintain in
schools, based on identified needs.
 Establishingchild participation structures by organizing project target kebeles and schools
in to clusters.
 Continuously follow up, support and arrange experience sharing visit for child
participation structure members.

 Encourage parents to protect and report violence cases to the concerned bodies within
their respective villages.
 Organizing /capacitating village-level child wellbeing committee to identify children on
the move and those at risk children and link them to services
 Conduct regular meetings among community based structures to develop joint plan, and to review
and monitor progress of implementation of their plan ( assist community own their plan)

 Training on child resilience activity for facilitators (selected from para-social workers,
teachers and other community workers).
 Basic training for focal persons from the different sectors on referral linkage and
coordination mechanisms
 Strengthening coordination and referral linkages among the multi-sector
stakeholders/school child protection focal points, village level para-social workers and
community based structures

1.7 Targeted groups

The targetedgroups for this project are trafficked and intercepted children (boys and girls)aged 6-
14years, households and brokers in Dittaworeda and Arba Minch town, Gamo Gofa zone,
SNNPRS. The project will strive to reach 2,000 trafficked children (1,000 boys and 1,000 girls)
who dwell in the project intervention woreda (Ditta) and Arba Minch town, 600 household heads
who are from impoverished background and with children who are vulnerable to trafficking,
forced labor and domestic servitude and 510 government partners as direct targets. The indirect
target groups are estimated to be 10,000people (6,000 females and 4,000 males) living in the
project intervention kebeles.

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 1.8 Project outputs
The project intends to achieve the following outputs:

 7,308 community members have received information on risks of unsafe child migration
and the existing services to prevent child unsafe migration.
 One community based information hub constructed and furnished.
 Enhanced parenting capacity of care providers to enable them provide safe family
environment and provide proper care for children

 Three cluster level Child Participation structures strengthened and supported.

 Enhanced parents capacity of care providers to enable them provide safe family
environment and provide proper care for children
 Family tracing, reunification and social integration services for unaccompanied and
separated children on the move implemented as per the best interest of the child
 Referral linkages and coordination established among stakeholders to enhance the
protection and access to services for unaccompanied and other migrant children.
 Community-based structures further capacitated to maximize their knowledge and started
to take action on unsafe child migration.

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 2. Background and Justification
2.1 Background
Ethiopia is geographically located between 30 25’ to 180 North, and 330 to 480 East, in the Horn
of Africa. The country is one of the fast growing economy countries in the world. The total
landmass of the country is estimated to be 1.14 million sq. km. According to the May 2007
Population census, with a population of about 73.9 million, (50.46 male and 49.54% female) in
2008/09, Ethiopia is the second populous country in Africa next to Nigeria. According to the
May 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, about 84 percent of the population still
resides in rural areas agriculture being the major source of livelihood. Although the rate of
population growth has been on a declining trend over the last three decades (3 percent per annum
in the 1980s, 2.73 percent up until the early 1990s and 2.6 percent from the mid-1990s up to
2007), Ethiopia’s population growth is still considered to be high given its size and demographic
profile.

Agriculture in Ethiopia is given a strategic importance in the economy. About 83.9 percent of the
Ethiopian populations in the rural areas drive their livelihood from this sector directly or
indirectly. Despite government emphasis and donors support to the agriculture sector in Ethiopia,
rural poverty is still a critical challenge in socioeconomic development efforts. The repeated two
digits economic growth rate that the nation has been recording has not yet curbed to a significant
extent the unemployment level and the destitutions among the largest segment of the societyin
the country, particularly women. This state of affairs has paved the way for increased in the
move of childrento major urban cities of the country, more often with despair and sometimes
with push from family and peer pressure, to earn a living and support their family in the rural
areas.

2.2 Socio-economic situation of the project areas

As it is true for the other parts of Ethiopia, agriculture is the main livelihood pillar of the
community in the proposed project areas, particularly Ditta Woreda. The mixed farming
practices at low input and output basis are the main characteristics of the farming practices in the
area. The farm land per household is decreasing for each succeeding generation owing to the fact
that increasing population density boundstheexisting family to allocate plot of land to new brides
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have brought about lower level of food security at household level which in turn gave rise to
sending children to urban centers to make a living there and help household members back at
home. Although this is so, since recent times, with the favorable economic development policy
of the government at both the national level and local levels, the population in the proposed
project areasis able to diversify their livelihood option and now actively participate in the
production of commercial fruits like apple. As a result, there are promising changes in the lives
of the various segments of the population which is paving the way for changes in the attitude
toward work culture among the vast majority of the population.

Weaving has been the main occupation and source of income for the livelihood of the Gamo
community and as a result, adult males and children of this ethnic group usually migrate to big
towns such as Addis Ababa to earn better income from their occupation. Male out-migration
from Chencha and Ditta Woredas of Gamo Gofa zone poses several problems to the rural women
and their children. The age-old trend of male out-migration from these Woredas forces rural
women to manage the agricultural activity and the household chores alone with little or no
remittance from their migrant husbands.

Arba Minch town, the capital of Gamo Gofa zone, is endowed with remarkable and attractive
natural environments consisting of forest, adorable spring water resource, Abaya and Chamo rift
valley lakes, Nechsar national park, fish resource, admirable God’s bridge, different fruits
resource, crocodile ranch and market, and human history values (Gamo Arts). The town is one of
the most tourist destinations and potentially wealthy city in Ethiopia. Based on geographical and
administrative effectiveness, recently Arba Minch is divided into 4 Sub towns which are again
divided into 11 kebeles. The four sub cities are named as Sikela, Shecha, Abaya, and Nechsar.

Despite the efforts of the town’s administration, there is imbalance between population and
economic growth, which in turn results in increment in the level of unemployment. Due to
frequent migration from the rural areas to the town, the town’s population has shown tremendous
increment over the last few years. Particularly, there is continuous migration of children from
areas like Bonke, Garbansa, Gatse, Kuyle, Ditta, Dara Malo, and other parts of Gamo Gofa and
even other zones such as Wolaita. Low percentage of these children is engaged in daily activities
and majority of them are exposed to child labour/abuse.

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 2.3 Justification
It is a bare-fact that deeply rooted structural poverty and the resulting lack of economic
opportunity and gender imbalance to access to and control over resources and information are the
main factors pushing unskilled child migrants from rural areas to travel to semi-urban areas and
to Addis Ababa city to seek employment and earn better living. Such movement is being
instigated both by their family pushes and by the deception being made by child traffickers. The
major motives of trafficking the children from every corner of rural areas into urban areas,
especially the capital of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, is to engage them in domestic work, traditional
weaving industry, commercial sex and begging (IOM, 2006). The 1999 reports of the
International Labor Organization (ILO) estimated that 53.7 percent (3.9 million) of children
between the ages of 10 and 14 were toiling in the country. The 2000’s UNICEF report on
Ethiopia also revealed that children comprise of 50 percent of the population of the country and
20 percent of them live in extremely difficult circumstances. Likewise Save the Children
Denmark (2010) indicated that these children were exposed to a lot of dangers, disease and
exploitation. The same source also denoted that these children include orphan, victims of armed
conflict, abused and neglected child workers, destitute children with or without families, street
children, prostitutes and juvenile delinquents. It was also indicated that 79.4% of trafficked
children exercised physical abuse and 77.5%, 56.8% and 53.8% are suffering of denial of their
rights to get sufficient food, play/rest time and denied of access to education respectively
(MCDP, 2009 situational analysis on victims of child trafficking). To worsen the situation,
significant proportion of children who move to Addis Ababa city through different routes quitted
school before completing their first cycle of primary education. This tacitly reveals the presence
of the violation of children’s right which is manifested in the form of recruitments of children for
the exploitation of their labor which in turn denies their right to education.

Similarly, the movement of children and/or child trafficking from the SNNPR particularly from
Gamo Gofa areas (Chencha,Ditta, Dara Malo, Bonke and Arba Minch Zuria Woredas) to Addis
Ababa, Bale, Arsi and other places within the country and out has been a tradition for years and
was considered by many people in the source areas as beneficial and free from dangers.
However, recently child trafficking has been taking place from those areas of origin to Addis
Ababa and other places often times resulting in worst effects on the children. The base line
survey conducted by MCDP in Chenchaworeda in 2004 revealed that child trafficking is a

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common phenomenon in the Woreda as nearly 67 % of the households experienced the incidence
of child trafficking/ which means that at least one child has gone to Addis Ababa for one reason
or another at his/her early child hood age, 6-10 years during the last 2-3 years. The largest
segment of children that moved to or trafficked to Addis Ababa from Chencha,Ditta and Arba
Minch left home escaping from household poverty. Consequently they are bound to engage in
various tedious works which are forbidden by ILO and UN to be handled by children. The study
also depicted that the major causes of child trafficking from the area include both pushing and
pulling factors which are attributed to family’s economic background/poverty/, large family size
versus low income, lack of schooling opportunities, absence of networking among law-
enforcing bodies, influence of traffickers, low awareness of the community on child rights and
others. The same source indicated that the majority (54%) of the community members had the
view that the life of children, who previously went to Addis Ababa and/or other places, was
improved. With this misunderstanding many parents voluntarily send their children to towns
expecting that the children will get better life opportunities. In addition to this, the large
majorities (44%) of children have never heard of or know about the condition of their siblings
who are living away (in other places) and a significant portion (34%) of children said that they
know that their siblings are in better life condition. This notion mainly originated from the
traffickers’ wrong information dissemination regarding the situation of trafficked children.

A brief Children’s Situational Analysis (CSA) conducted in Ditta Woreda by MCDP and SCF in
November 2009 revealed the most prevalent problems affecting the lives of children. Among
such challenges children in the Woreda face, child labor and trafficking stand prominent. The
current dual practice of child labor and trafficking seems to be vast and widespread. The
community members and parents specifically, are compliant to child trafficking in the target
area, but only because they are misled into believing that life in the big city will provide better
opportunities for their children. This bounds trafficked children to end up living with employers
or unscrupulous relatives in Addis with the worst form of treatment while some are leading
indigent living condition being vulnerable to labor exploitation, sexual and physical abuses.

A recent report (March, 2017) from Ditta Woreda Women’s and Children Affairs Office reveals
that, despite the efforts of the government and other development actors, child trafficking is a
serious problem in the Woreda.The report indicates that lack of awareness about the

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consequences of child trafficking/child labour, combined with family poverty (low household
income), is the major push factor for child trafficking.With regards to the present situation, it is
mentioned in the report that,identification, interception, family tracing and reunification of
trafficking victims have been strengthened due to involvement of the community at large. As a
result, a total of 1,291(642 boys and 620 girls) were intercepted and reunified with their families
in the last three years (2014/2015-2017):606 (312 boys and 294 girls) in2014/2015(2007E.C),
419 (194 boys and 255 girls) in 2015/2016(2008E.C) and 266(135 boys and 131 girls) in
2016/2017 (2009E.C).As the data show, there is decrease in the number of intercepted children
from year to year. However, if controlling mechanisms fail, there is still likelihood for trafficking
of more children.

Interventions of government and civil society organizations on child trafficking: in source areas
of child trafficking, like Ditta Woreda, so far been limited to small scale short term projects,
limited rehabilitation efforts and initial awareness raising activities. Mission for Community
Development Program (MCDP) in partnership with Save the Children Finland (SCF) has been
involved in the initiation and execution of a pilot project in Ditta Woreda to reduce the
prevalence of child labor and trafficking and promote children’s protection from violence. A
better response in the Woreda requires further intervention to address the deep rooted problems
of children. Besides, the complex nature of trafficking routes has demanded interventions in the
transit areas, particularly Arba Minch town.

Hence, this project also intends to target these children who are vulnerable to various kinds of
abuses and their families as wellas formal and informal institutions so that it facilitates them get
aware of the issues of child trafficking and the prevention of such action to the betterment of the
children while they are in their places of birth. It also targets brokers/child traffickers,
government officials and law enforcing bodies to equip them with the necessary skills and law
that helps them to protect the children on move from multifaceted abuses. The organization,
MCDP, will identify these target groups through active involvement of the beneficiaries,
community based structures (such as SACOS, Edirs and resident forums in ten kebeles of Ditta
woreda and six kebeles of Arba Minch town. Women, Children and Youth Affairs and Police
Offices as well as Child Participation Structures will play crucial role in the project cycle.

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 2.4 Objectives of the Project
2.4.1 Long termobjective(Goal)
The project is designed to contribute to the reduction of child trafficking and child labor abuses
through reducing the vulnerability of children to labor exploitation and abuses through
empowering and supporting at risk families and children, and to prevent unsafe migration in
Ditta Woreda and Arba Minch town.

2.4.2 Short term or specific objectives

The project has the following specific objectives:

 To improve the knowledge, attitude and practice about risks of child migration among
1,000 child migrants, trafficked boys and girls through awareness raising/educationwithin
the project period (2017-2019).

 To rehabilitate and integrate 1,000 children (boys and girls) to their families and place of
originwithin the project period (2017 -2019).

 To strength the prevention and protective measures taken to alleviate unsafe child
migration through disseminating IEC materials and establishing one community
information hub in Arba Minch town within the project period (2017 -2019).

 To ensure properimplementation of relevant legislations that address the risks of unsafe

migration among child returnees and trafficked boys and girls at all levelsat the project
operational areasat the end of the project period (2019).

 To establish and support cluster level child participation structures at the source area of
child trafficking (Ditta Woreda) within the project period.

3. Project implementation strategies

The implementation strategies of the project draws up on earlier experiences and best practices
of the organization in carrying out similar projects that gear towards curbing the problems of
child trafficking and community empowerment for self-reliant development. Hence, the project
pursues a holistic approach that emphasis on addressing the factors that exasperate the problems
that children face while they are on “move”. This call for giving due weight to the ecology of the
child, particularly of the support system where children are cared for, protected and actively

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involve as well as facilitating for the creation of integrated services provision among different
actors and government partners organization that have seriously concerned with the situation of
children on move. Therefore, the proposed strategies encompass the following:

Awareness Creation: It thought to reach the wider audiences on the issues of children on move
and alternative child care with special focus on community-based care and local adoption
through conducting a series of structured conversations with parents, children and other
stakeholders, establishing and strengthening child participation structures, organizing
sensitization meetings, workshops, discussion panels, trainings and other public gatherings on
child trafficking and child labor. Furthermore, capacity building training to government law
enforcing bodies on children on move, the actors in the move as well as the situation of the
children in accessing support services from the required government offices will be familiarized
and action will be called for. Such endeavors will also include raising public awareness by using
innovative and best practice behavior change and multimedia approaches to reach national level
audiences.

Strengthening Local Capacity: Strengthen the policy environment to support children’s right to
be safe and educated through activating existing local structures and strengthening community
base child protection systems.

Rehabilitation and Reintegration Services: Identification, Intercepting/withdrawal/,

rehabilitation, reintegration and provision supports to the family of re-integrated children are also
the strategy the project will employ. The organization experience revealed that a number of
children who were trafficked and destined to Addis Ababa city but reintegrated with their family
with supports being provided to the family were able start their education and led stable life back
at their place of origin

4. Project description
4.1 Location of the project
The project is intended to be implemented in one woreda and one town administration of Gamo
Gofa zone. Ditta woreda which is identified as one source area for child trafficking will be the
area where most of the project activities shall be implemented. Whereas Arba Minch town, zonal

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center, which serves as the main transit for child migrants is targeted. The table below (table 1)
shows the detailed location where the project is going to be implemented.

Table 1: Location (Region, Zone, Woreda, kebeles) of the project

No Region Zone Woreda/Town Kebele

DittaWoreda MegesaBobe, EgersaWoke, Sozo,
Goza,Tukana-Gana-Woyza, Donne, Giyasa,
SNNPRS GamoGofa Arba Minch Doysa, Bere, Dilber,
Zada, Dalbansa Gurba, Menaharia and
and Lisha
Town Kulufo

4.2 Target groups

 Trafficked children who dwell in the project intervention woreda and the transit area
(Arba Minch town).

 Children in the informal sectors and dwelling places who are in the list of Arba Minch
town Women and Children Affairs Offices(the offices will approve the target
beneficiaries of the intervention together with project implementing organization,
MCDP)

 Households of at risk and vulnerable children with impoverished background.

Table 2: Target groups by type and sex

S/N Type of the targets Population by sex

Male Female Total
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1 Direct
1.1 Children 1,000 1,000 2,000
1.2 Household heads 300 300 600
1.3 Government partners 350 160 510
2 Indirect
2.1 Children families 4,000 6,000 10,000

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 4.3 Allocated fund
A total of 15,521,888 Ethiopian Birr is allocated for the whole project period. Based on the
Charities and Societies Agency budget rule, this fund is divided to program and administration
cost, maintaining 70/30 ratio. Accordingly, 82.8 % of the total budget is allocated for the
program related costs while the remaining 17.2 % for administrative activities (indirect and
overhead cost) as shown on the following table (table 3).

4.4 Project duration

It is thought that the intended project activities shall be implemented within three years (2017
-2019) provided that the assumptions are met and risks are minimized.

5. Project activities and targets

5.1 Preparatory activities
 Conduct base line survey1 and select target beneficiaries and beneficiaries’
representatives
 Sign agreement with government partners and funding agency
 Assign human resource( Project manager, Case workers, Rehabilitation workers)
and induction/ training
 Conduct Project launching and familiarization

5.2 Operational activities

Operational activities under Output 1.1

 Activity 1.1.1. Conduct structured community conversation (CC) sessions involving

2,436 community members every month per year(i.e. total of 84 sessions in a year, one
session comprising 29 members) on Children on the Move using structured CC guides
by trained CC facilitators.

 Activity 1.1.2: Provide a-three-day ToT on CC for 25 community facilitators to facilitate

discussion on children on move using structured CC guides.

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The survey is designed to be undertaken in the course of project implementation; in addition to this we consulted
secondary information from the Woreda level discussion for preparatory activities of the project.

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Operational activities under Output 1.2

 Activity 1.2.1: Establish and strengthen one community based information hubatArba
Minch town. Build one Community level information Center using local materials and
equipthem with 10 computers, TV and Satellite dishes, indoor games as well as 30 chairs
and print media on lessons and experiences in children on Move.

 Activity 1.2.2: Provide a-15-day training on ICT for 15 users of the information hub.

Operational activities under Output 1.3:

 Activity 1.3.1. Conduct assessment on positive parenting practices and the role of
mothers and fathers in child upbringing within the target communities and show to the
target community the existing wisdom/positive practices with themselves as it contribute
for proper child care and development.
 Activity1.3.2: Train 90 community Para-social workers/health extension workers for
three days on positive parenting and how to work with parents in culturally sensitive
manner.
 Activity 1.3.3: Organize an eight session( one session will have 90 minutes) day
parenting education to 600 parents/care providersinvolving both men and women on
developing positive copying behaviors of children in times of distress.
 Activity1.3.4: Conduct on-going parenting discussion sessions among male and female
care providers involving600 male and female care providers once in a month every year.

Operational activities under Output 1.4

 Activity 1.4.1: Provide a-three-day training on child resilience activity for 90 facilitators
(selected from Para-social workers, teachers and other community workers).

Operational activities under Output 2.1

 Activity 2.1.1: Establishchild participation structures by organizing project target kebeles

and schools in to clusters.

 Activity 2.1.2: Properly design the roles of child participation structures taking in to
account the local context and based on the experiences of MCDP.

 Activity 2.1.3: Continuously follow up and support child participation structures.

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  Activity 2.1.4: Arrange experience sharing visit for child participation structure
members.

Operational activities under Output 2.2

 Activity 2.2.1:Encourage parents to protect and report violence cases to the concerned
bodies within their respective villages.
 Activity 2.2.2:Organize discussion sessions for parents on quarterly basis to check the
changes and strengthen protection efforts.
Operational activities under Output3.1:

 Activity 3.1.1: Provide a-three-day basic training to 600 community based Para-social
workers and case workers from service providing organizations on unsafe child
migration and case management (including best interest assessment and determination
procedure).

 Activity 3.1.2Cascade a-three-day basic training on unsafe child migration and case
management practices for 300 parents (including best interest assessment and
determination procedure).

 Activity 3.1.3: Conduct family tracing and reunification; provide interim care and other
psychosocial support for 1,000 children on the move (below the age of 14 years, 333
children per year) who are separated from their primary care provider, as per the best
interest of the child.

 Activity 3.1.4: Support reunified children to continue their basic education and maintain
in schools, based on identified needs (support for 600 families to enable them provide
proper care for their children and send them to school), two hundred family a year.

 Activity 3.1.5: Conduct on-going support and monitoring on situations of children

who are reunified with their family and community

Operational activities under Output 3.2

 Activity 3.2.1: Provide a-three-day basic training for 510 focal persons from the
different sectors on Referral linkage and coordination mechanisms.

 Activity 3.2.2: Initiate /further strengthen coordination and referral linkages among
the multi-sector stakeholders/school child protection focal points, village level Para-
social workers and community based structures (create regular discussion forum among
these actors once in a quarter to strengthen coordination and referral linkage)

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Operational activities under Output 3.3

 Activity 3.3.1: Organize/capacitate village-level child wellbeing committee, 30 village

level committee having 10 member a committee, to identify children on the move and
those at risk children and link them to services (this involve conducting awareness raising
and training session for the members every year) once in a quarter (assessment and
stakeholder mapping):provide training on leadership, MOU development ,case
management training from identification to re-unification)

 Activity 3.3.2: Engage community based committees in different community gathering

awareness rising and protection activities.

 Activity 3.3.3:Conduct regular meetings among community based structures to develop

joint plan, and to review and monitor progress of implementation of their plan ( assist
community own their plan)

5.3 Major Activities to be implemented at the Target Areas

As it is justified above, Ditta woreda is a source area for child trafficking/unsafe migration. Thus,
most of the planned activities will be implemented in the selected kebeles of the woreda.On the
other hand, Arba Minch town is the main transit area for many child migrants from Ditta and
other woredas of Gamo Gofa zone. This necessitates the need to strengthen linkage/networking,
coordination, identification and interception activities at the town by identifying and mapping
routes. There are also activities to be implemented in both areas. The tables (table 3&4) below
indicate the major activities to be implemented at the target areas.

Table 3: Majoractivities to be implemented at Ditta woreda

S/ Activity Implementation
N period
1 Community Conversation (CC) on Children on the Move and Alternative Child 2017 -2019
Careusing structured CC guides and by trained CC facilitators
2 A three-day ToT on CC for Community Facilitators to facilitate Community 2017 -2019
Conversion(CC)
3 Assessment on positive parenting practices and the role of mothers and fathers in 2017
child upbringing
4 Community Para-social workers/health extension workers training on positive 2017 & 2018
parenting and how to work with parents in culturally sensitive manner.
5 Organizing parenting education to parents/care providers involving both men and 2017 -2019
women on developing positive copying behaviors of children at times of distress

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 S/ Activity Implementation
N period
6 Organizing on-going parenting discussion sessions among male and female care 2017 -2019
providers involving male and female care providers once in a month every year.
7 A three-day basic training for community based Para-social workers and case 2017 - 2019
workers from service providing organizations on unsafe child migration and
case management (including best interest assessment and determination
procedure).
8 Cascade a three-day basic training on unsafe child migration and case 2019
management practices for parents (including best interest assessment and
determination procedure).
9 Support of reunified children to continue their basic education and maintain in 2017 -2019
schools, based on identified needs
10 On-going support and monitoring on situations of children who are reunified with 2017 -2019
their family and community
11 Organizing /capacitating village-level child wellbeing committee to identify 2017 -2019
children on the move and those at risk children and link them to services
12 Engage community based committees in different community gathering 2017 -2019
awareness raising and child protection activities.
13 Conduct regular meetings among community based structures to develop joint 2017 -2019
plan, and to review and monitor progress of implementation of their plan ( assist
community own their plan)
14 Establishment and support of child participation structures 2017 -2019
15 Organizing parents discussion on violence cases at household level 2017 -2019

Table 4: Majoractivities to be implemented at Arba Minch town

S/N Activity Implementation period

1 Construction of community based information hub/center using local 2017

materials and equipping with computers, TV and Satellite dishes, indoor
games as well as chairs and print media on lessons and experiences in
children on Move.
2 A 15-day training on ICT for information hub users 2017
3 A three-day training on child resilience activity for facilitators (selected
from para-social workers, teachers and other community workers). 2017 & 2018
4 Identification, interception, interim care and other psychosocial 2017 -2019
support for children on the move who are separated from their primary
care provider, as per the best interest of the child.
5 A three-day basic training for focal persons from the different sectors on 2017 -2019
referral linkage and coordination mechanisms

6 Strengthening coordination and referral linkages among the multi-sector 2018

stakeholders/school child protection focal points, village level para-
social workers and community based structures

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 6. Physical plan
Unit of Physical plan in years
S/N Activities Measure
ment Total 2017 2018 2019
Community Conversation (CC) on Children on the Move and Alternative Child # of
Care using structured CC guides and by trained CC facilitators sessions
252 84 84 84
1
Provide a-three-day ToT on CC for community facilitators to facilitate discussion # of
Persons
75 25 25 25
2 on children on move using structured CC guides.
Build one Community level information Center using local material and equip them
with 10 computer, TV and Satellite dishes, indoor games as well as 30 chairs and # 1 1
print media on lessons and experiences in children on Move
3
Provide a-15-day training on ICT for users of the information hub # of
4 15 15
Persons
Assessment on positive parenting practices and the role of mothers and fathers in # of
child upbringing assessment
1 1
5
Organize training for community para-social workers/health extension workers for
# of
three days on positive parenting and how to work with parents in culturally
Persons
180 90 90
6 sensitive manner
Organize an eight session( one session will have 90 minutes) day parenting
# of
education for parents/care providers involving both men and women on developing 24 8 8 8
sessions
7 positive copying behaviors of children in times of distress
Conduct on-going parenting discussion sessions among male and female care # of
sessions
36 12 12 12
8 providers involving male and female care providers once in a month every year
Provide a-three-day training on child resilience activity for facilitators (selected # of
90 30 60
9 from Para-social workers, teachers and other community workers) Persons
Establish child participation structures by organizing project target kebeles and # of
3 1
10 schools in to clusters. structures
11 Arrange experience sharing visit for child participation structure members.
# of visits 6 2 2 2

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 Unit of
Measure Physical plan in years
S/N Activities ment
Total 2017 2018 2019
Provide a-three-day basic training to community based Para-social workers and
case workers from service providing organizations, on unsafe child migration and # of
600 180 180 240
case management (including best interest assessment and determination Persons
13 procedure)
14 Cascade a-three-day basic training on unsafe child migration and case
# of
management practices for parents (including best interest assessment and 300 300
Persons
determination procedure)
15 Conduct family tracing and reunification, provide interim care and other
# of
psychosocial support for children on the move (below the age of 14 years, 333 1,000 330 340 330
children
children per year) who are separated from their primary care provider
Support reunified children to continue their basic education and maintain in
schools, based on identified needs (support for families to enable them provide # of
600 200 200 200
families
16 proper care for their children and send them to school).
Provide a-three-day basic training for focal persons from the different sectors on # of
510 170 170 170
17 referral linkage and coordination mechanisms: Persons
Organizediscussion forum among school child protection focal points, village # of 3 3
level Para-social workers and community based structures to strengthen sessions
18 coordination and referral linkage.)
Organize/capacitate village-level child wellbeing committee; village level
committee having 10 members in a committee, to identify children on the move # of
and those at risk children and link them to services( this involves conducting village
awareness raising and training session for the members every year) once in a level 30 15 15
quarter ( assessment and stakeholder mapping):provide training on leadership, committee
MOU development ,case management training from identification to re- s
19 unification)
S/N Activities Unit of Physical plan in years
Measure
ment

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 Total 2017 2018 2019
Conduct regular meetings among community based structures to develop joint
# of
plan, and to review and monitor progress of implementation of their plan( assist 12 4 4 4
sessions
20 community own their plan)
Project launching workshop in the project area (involving senior officials drawn
# of
from the regional bureaus, Gamo Gofa zone offices Arba Minch town 1 1
sessions
21 administration and Ditta woreda)
# of
1
22 Training on monitoring for 8 field staff and five program staff for five days sessions
Monitoring & Learning review with pertinentstakeholders on quarterly # of
12 4 4 4
23 basis( joint reflection) sessions

23 Documentation and Dissemination( audiovisual and case studies) # 3 1 1 1

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 7. Project inputs
7.1 Human resources
The human resources required by the project are mixes of people from different academic
backgrounds and project implementation and management experiences. The trained professionals
and relevant expertise possessing MA and BA degrees in different social science fields such as
Sociology, Social Work, Social Anthropology, Psychology and an accountant will be employed
to make the project implementation and administration viable. On the other hand, facilitator will
be recruited jointly with WCA and Woreda administration to make the grassroots level operation
owned by the beneficiaries.

Table 5: Human resource required for the project

No Position Profession Level of Qty National Expatria Monthly Total

education te salary salary
1 Project Manager Sociology, Social MA 1  - 10,742 426,652
Work, Social
Anthropology,
Psychology and
other social Science
fields
2 Lead Case Psychology, BA 1  - 9,619 382,073
worker Development
Management and
other social Science
fields
3 Case worker Sociology, BA 2  - 8,081 641,998
Psychology,
Development
Management and
other social Science
fields
4 Admin and Accounting BA 1  - 8,081 320,994
Finance Officer
5 Community Social science and Diploma 6  - 2,272 541,458
worker health
6 Care takers Health/Social Diploma 2  - 2,272 180,456
Science
7 Secretary Cashier Office Management, Diploma 1  - 2,865 113,799
Accounting
8 Guard Military 8th and 2  - 2,388 94,864
above
Total 16 - 46,320 2,702,294

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 7.2 Materialinput
The basic material inputs required are Desktop and Laptop computers, office furniture like desks
tables and chairs as well as package of stationeries material and different tonners.

Table 6: List of materials

S/No Description U/M Qty Estimated Estimated
unit price total price

1 Desktop Computers and Printer set 4 30,000.00 120,000

2 Furniture (Desk, Table and Swivel set 8 5,000.000 40,000
Chair)
Total 35,000.00 160,000

7.3 Financial input

The total financial input required to implement the planned project activities in Ditta woreda and
Arba Minch town of Gamo Gofa zone will be 15,521,888 ETB for the period of three years
(2017 – 2019).The total budget is categorized in to program and administration (direct, indirect
budget category based on 70/30 rules of the Charities and Societies Agency of Ethiopia as shown
on the table below (table 8).

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Table 7: Summary of project budget in a relation to the activities

S/N Description of activities by component Total cost in %

birr
1 Direct cost 12,855,191 82.8

1.1 Outcome 1: Children and care givers will have 3,312,999 21.34
started to take informed action on their decision to
migration and protect themselves from the risks
associated with unsafe migration.
1.2 Outcome 2: Reduced violence and discrimination 885,400 5.70
at household level.

1.3 Outcome 3: Children on the move have access to 8,011,074 51.61

adequate services promoting their well-being to
development, learning and protection (Systems
strengthening approach)

2 Indirect Cost 1,329,301 8.56

3 Overhead cost 1,337,396 8.61
Total Project Cost 15,521,888 100

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 Table 8. Financial Plan break down

Total Financial Plan in Years

Total
S/N Activities Financial Physical plan
Plan 2017 2018 2019

Outcome 1. Children and care givers will have started to take informed action on
their decision to migration and protect themselves from the risks associated with          
1 unsafe migration.

Output 1.1: Community members received training and information on risks of unsafe
1.1 child migration and existing services to prevent unsafe migration.
Activity 1.1.1: Conduct structured community conversation (CC) sessions involving 2436
community members every month per year (i.e. total of 84 sessions in a year, one sessions
comprising 29 members) on Children on the Move using structured CC guides by trained CC 410,797 136,600 136,700 137,497 252 sessions
facilitators above(2436 participants @100ETB plus 15 ETB per participants for stationery
1.1.1 costs)
Activity 1.1.2: Provide a-three-day ToT on CC for community facilitators to facilitate
152,390 31,134 58,025 63,231 75
1.1.2 discussion on children on move using structured CC guides.

1.2 Output 1.2: One community based information hub constructed and furnished.

Activity 1.2.1 : Establish and strengthen community based information hub: Build one
Community level information Center using local material and equip them with 10 computer,
1.2.1 TV and Satellite dishes, indoor games as well as 30 chairs and print media on lessons and
experiences in children on Move
1.2.1.1 Construction of one Information Center 250,460 250,460 - - 1
Purchase of Computers
60,000 60,000 - 5
1.2.1.2
Purchase of Satellite dishes TV
18,996 18,996 - - 1
1.2.1.3
Plastic Chairs and desks/furniture
20,000 20,000 - - 1
1.2.1.4
1.2.1.5 Provision of Child friendly IEC material(booklets, fliers, posters ,films/audiovisual material) 15,000 15,000 - - 1
Indoors and outdoors game
50,000 50,000 - - 1
1.2.1.6

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 Putting in place two information hub stewardships
36,000 36,000 - - 2
1.2.1.7
Activity 1.2.2: Provide a-15-day training on ICT for 15 users of the information hub (1000
- -
1.2.2 Birr per day per a trainee
Daily allowance for trainees
16,250 16,250 - - 15
1.2.3
Stationery and Manual print cost
6,000 6,000 - - 2
1.2.4
Trainer’s fee
30,000 30,000 - - 15
1.2.5

Output 1.3 Enhanced parenting capacity of care providers to enable them provide safe
1.3 family environment and provide proper care for children
Activity 1.3.1. Conduct assessment on positive parenting practices and the role of mothers
and fathers in child up bring within target communities and show to the target community the
existing wisdom/positive practices with themselves as it contribute for proper child care and
1.3.1 development
PRA and Community analysis for the Assessment on positive parenting practices 100,000 100,000 - - 4
1.3.2
Community based dialogues for assessment with direct beneficiaries
30,000 30,000 100
1.3.3
Documentation and Dissemination
19,248 19,248 20
1.3.4
Activity 1.3.2: Train 90 community Para-social workers/health extension workers for three
days on positive parenting and how to work with parents in culturally sensitive
1.3.2 manner(90*200ETB/Trainees*3)
Daily allowance for trainees
81,000 27,000 54,000 - 300
1.3.3
Refreshment for trainees
16,200 5,400 10,800 - 60
1.3.4.
Venue
7,500 1,500 6,000 15
1.3.5
Stationery
3,744 944 2,800 4
1.3.6
Activity 1.3.3: Organize an eight session( one session will have 90 minutes) day parenting
education to 600 parents/care providers involving both men and women on developing
positive copying behaviors of children in times of distress
1.3.3
Daily allowance for participants
492,000 160,000 160,000 172,000 600
1.3.4

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 Refreshment cost
45,000 15,000 15,000 15,000 75
1.3.5
Stationery
3,869 1,263 1,263 1,343 3
1.3.6
Activity 1.3.4 Conduct on-going parenting discussion sessions among male and female care
1.3.4 providers involving 600 male and female care providers once in a month every year
Allowance for participants
186,169 60,000 61,689 64,480 600
1.3.5
Output 1.4 : Children accessed resilience building services through structured sessions
1.4 and play activities
Activity 1.4.1 : Provide a-three-day training on child resilience activity for 90 facilitators
1.4.1 (selected from Para-social workers, teachers and other community workers)
Daily allowance for trainees
144,000 54,000 90,000 90
1.4.2
Refresher cost
20,038 6,538 13,500 90
1.4.3
Stationeries
10,100 4,100 6,000 90
1.4.4
Trainer’s fee with facilitation Manual
24,276 24,276 3
1.4.5
1.4.6
Lead Case Worker (1) @ (100%) 382,073 115,430 126,973 139,670 36

Case Workers (2) @ (100%) 320,977 96,972 106,669 117,336 36

1.4.7
1.4.8 Community Workers(4) 100% 360,912 109,037 119,940 131,935 36
Outcome 2: Reduced violence and discrimination at household level.
2
Output 2.1: Three cluster level Child Participation structures strengthened and supported.
2.1
Activity 2.1.1: Establish child participation structures by organizing project target kebeles
3
2.1.1 and schools in to clusters.
Activity 2.1.2: Properly design the roles of child participation structures taking in to
account the local context and based on the experiences of MCDP. 3
2.1.2
2.1.3 Activity 2.1.3: Continuously follow up and support child participation structures.
Stationery materials support 36,000 3,600 11,400 21,000
Refreshment during meetings 25,200 2,600 7,600 15,000

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2.1.4 Activity 2.1.4: Arrange experience sharing visit for child participation structure
members.
Allowance for participants 403,200 80,640 161,280 161,280
Allowance for facilitators 81,000 16,200 32,400 32,400
Car rent/Transport 240,000 48,000 96,000 96,000
Output 2.2 : Enhanced parents capacity of care providers to enable them provide
safe family environment and provide proper care for children
2.2
Activity 2.2.1: Encourage parents to protect and report violence cases to the
2.2.1 concerned bodies within their respective villages.
Activity 2.2.2: Organize discussion sessions for parents on quarterly basis to check
the changes and strengthen protection efforts. 600
2.2.2
Refreshment for participants during meetings 100,000 10,000 30,000 60,000 600
Outcome 3: Children on the move have access to adequate services promoting their
3 well-being to development, learning and protection (Systems strengthening approach)
Output 3.1. Family tracing and reunification and social integration services for
unaccompanied and separated children on the move implemented as per the best
3.1 interest of the child
Activity 3.1.1. Provide a-three-day basic training to 600 community based Para-social
workers and case workers from service providing organizations, on unsafe child migration
3.1.1 and case management (including best interest assessment and determination procedure)
Daily allowance for the trainees 320,000 90,000 90,000 140,000 600
Stationeries
18,000 6,000 6,000 6,000 600
Refreshment cost
269,232 89,232 90,000 90,000 600

Venue rent 7,000 1,000 3,000 3,000 7

3.1.2 Activity 3.1.2 : Cascade a-three-day basic training on unsafe child migration and case
management practices for 300 parents (including best interest assessment and determination
procedure)

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 Daily allowance for the trainees 160,000 160,000 300
Training materials
6,000 6,000 300
Refreshment cost
54,416 54,416 300
  Activity 3.1.3: Conduct family tracing and reunification, provide interim care and other
3.1.3 psychosocial support for 1000 children on the move (below the age of 14 years, 333 children
per year) who are separated from their primary care provider
Cost for interim care( food, clothes ,soap) of children 20,000 316,500 316,500 1,266
653,000
Telephone and transportation cost for family tracing and reunification
81,300 4,000 43,650 33,650 1,066
Expense for the children on the way to reunification
575,058 20,744 264,414 289,900 1,336
Temporary shelter preparation/Rent/ children safe home
135,965 45,322 45,322 45,322 36
Activity 3.1.4: Support reunified children to continue their basic education and maintain in
schools, based on identified needs (support for 600 families to enable them provide proper - -
3.1.4 care for their children and send them to school) two hundred family a year
Support for families of children for IGA Activities 3,005,878 98,066 1,418,386 1,489,426 600
Activity 3.1.5: Conduct on-going support and follow up on situations of children who are
reunified with their family and community every two months in a year - -
3.1.5
Facilitate parental discussion on re-unified children well-being every two months in a year
503,681 38,161 226,832 238,688 1,500
Output 3.2. Referral linkages and coordination established/strengthened between
police, justice, social protection and education systems, the private sectors, and
- -
community care structures to enhance the protection and access to services for
3.2 unaccompanied and other migrant children.
Activity 3.2.1: Provide a-three-day basic training to 510 focal persons from the different
- -
3.2.1 sectors on referral linkage and coordination mechanisms:
Daily allowance for trainees
306,000 102,000 102,000 102,000 510
Refreshment for trainees
71,894 22,168 22,168 27,558 510
Stationery
12,750 4,250 4,250 4,250 510

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 Venue rent 10,296 3,432 3,432 3,432 6
Activity 3.2.2: Initiate /further strengthen coordination and referral linkages among the
school child protection focal points, village level Para-social workers and community based
structures (create regular discussion forum among these actors once in a quarter every year to
strengthen coordination and referral linkage.)
3.2.2
Daily allowance for the participants 270,000 270,000 900
Stationeries
14,515 14,515 180
Output 3. 3. Community-based structures further capacitated to maximize their
- -
3.3 knowledge and started to take action on unsafe child migration
Activity 3.3.1: Organize/capacitate village-level child wellbeing committee, 30 village level
committee having 10 members in a committee, to identify children on the move and those at
risk children and link them to services( this involve conducting awareness raising and
- -
training session for the members every year) once in a quarter ( assessment and stakeholder
mapping):provide training on leadership, MOU development ,case management training from
3.3.1 identification to re-unification)
Daily allowance for village level committee members of Children on Move 387,475 129,158 129,158 129,158 1,200
Activity 3.3.2: Engage community based committees in different community gathering
- -
3.3.2 awareness rising and protection activities
Discussion session support cost for members (four times a year) 139,770 45,000 47,017 47,753 1,200
3.3.3 Activity 3.3.3: Conduct regular meetings among community based structures to develop joint
plan, and to review and monitor progress of implementation of their plan( assist community
own their plan)
Meeting allowance for committee’s representative for the meeting 312,562 99,606 103,702 109,254
Stationeries for the planning meeting
14,376 4,792 4,792 4,792 510

320,994 96,977 106,675 117,342 36

Case Worker
180,456 54,518 59,970 65,967 36
Community Workers (2)
180,456 54,518 59,970 65,967 36
Care Taker based at (2)
Total Direct cost
12,855,191 2,934,617 4,654,089 5,266,485

4 Indirect cost

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4.1 Personnel cost
4.1.1 Project Manager (100%) 426,652 128,898 141,788 155,967 36
4.1.2 Adm. & Finance Officer (100%) 320,994 96,977 106,675 117,342 36
4.1.3 Secretary & Petty cashier (100%) 113,799 34,380 37,818 41,600 36
4.1.4 Guard (2) (100%) 94,864 28,660 31,526 34,678 36
Personnel total 956,309 288,915 317,807 349,587 36
5 MEAL Costs        
Project Launching in the project area (involving senior officials drawn from the
regional bureaus, Gamo Gofa zone offices Arba Minch town administration and 80,000 80,000     1
5.1 Ditta Woreda): Cost includes per diem, transport, fuel and venue rent.
Training on monitoring for 8 field staff and five program staff for five days 26,000 13,000   13,000 8
5.2
5.3 Field Monitoring by the staff 38,992 13,000 12,996 12,996 36
5.4 Monitoring & Learning review with various Stakeholders on quarterly basis( joint 36,000 12,000 12,000 12,000 36
5.5 reflection)& Terminal Evaluation
Midterm 100,000   50,000 50,000 2
5.6 Documentation and Dissemination( audiovisual and case studies) 92,000 20,000 36,000 36,000 2
MEAL Subtotal 372,992 138,000 110,996 123,996
Indirect total 1,329,301 426,915 428,803 473,583
6 Overhead costs        
Equipment ( Four desk tops with printers and 8 sets of furniture: desk , tables and 160,000 160,000    
6.1 Swivel chairs)
6.2 Travel cost 146,331 48,777 48,777 48,777
6.3 Fuel, lubricant and car maintenance 130,000 30,000 50,000 50,000
6.4 Office Costs 901,065 300,355 300,355 300,355
Overhead total 1,337,396 539,132 399,132 399,132
Admin total 2,666,697 966,047 827,935 872,715

Grand Total (Program + Admin.) 15,521,888 3,900,664 5,482,023 6,139,201

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 8. Organization and Management
8.1 Responsibility for implementation and funding
MCDP will employ its well established organizational structure and staff to effectively realize
the objectives and activities of the project. MCDP general assembly members are responsible for
the overall strategic direction and organizational policy in line with the government strategic
direction, legislation and policy directions and plan. The project will have its own staffs that are
directly accountable to MCDP head office.

The board of directors and executive director along with management and other staff of the
organization will be responsible to mobilize resources, direct and monitor the efficient and
effectiveness of the project resources. The programmatic, administrative, and financial aspects of
the project will be governed by MCDP management; administrative and financial policies; rules
and regulations. MCDP management will facilitate participatory management and collective
decision-making at all levels.

Save the Children International Ethiopia office (SCI) shall provide the necessary fund and
technical backing as per the agreement signed between MCDP and the SCI.

8.2 Responsibility for Project Monitoring and Evaluation

8.2.1 Monitoring
The project monitoring system will be based on the already functioning monitoring and
evaluation (M&E) system of the organization. However, participatory planning, monitoring and
evaluation system will be made to fit to the particular nature and data requirement for assessing
the performance and impact of the proposed project intervention in a manner that helps the
organization and its partners and/or stakeholders ensure that project progresses are on the right
track to achieve the project results.

The system will have clearly identified indicators that demonstrate progress in terms of both the
impact and processes in relation to the program objective. Furthermore, it will have indicators
that help understand what changes occur as a result of the program works, and what processes
have contributed to the changes. Accordingly, the project will monitor its joint work progress on:

 Quarterly field visits will be conducted based on well-developed and pre-communicated

TOR (Terms of Reference)
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  Joint monitoring involving all concerned government partners led by Regional/Zonal
BOFED implementing partners to see how effective the partnership is working and
whether the agreed results are achieved.

 Quarterly progress monitoring reports will be submitted to all signatories of the project.

8.2.2 Evaluation
The evaluation framework that will comprise range of agreed up on indicators for measuring
processes and changes for each level of result chain in the logic model of the project, frequencies
data collection and methods of measurement, sources of data, types of reports to be generated
and frequencies of reporting and dissemination of learning will be made to capture and match
the information requirement of the donors, the government stakeholders and the particular nature
of the proposed project and be shared to partners.

 Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA) will be carried out on bi-annual basis by external
consultant and the lessons learned will be publicized for wider learning. The assessment
will done will be carried out.
The impact assessment shall include:
Relevance: what are the anticipated effects and impacts for the target groups?
Economic efficiency: what is the cost-benefit ratio for the funds employed?
Significance: does the project generate broad-based sectoral and/or regional impacts?

 participatory evaluation of the progress of changes in the outcome statement contained in

the project result will be carried out involving all target beneficiaries and government
stakeholders;

 Midterm and Terminal evaluation will be carried out by project signatories at the middle
of the project period and at the end of the project completion and report on the same will
be provided to BoFED to facilitate the handing over of the project.

8.3 Community participation

The project target groups are encouraged, capacitated and mobilized to participate actively in the
project cycle by taking part in discussions/dialogues on children on move, capacity building
trainings/awareness raising, identification and interception of trafficking children, providing

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temporary safe homes for intercepted trafficked children, and reporting violence cases in their
respective villages.

8.4 Auditing and Reporting

Narrative and financial reports will be worked out by the project coordination office and
endorsed by the MCDP and communicated to all pertinent bodies at all levels. Furthermore,
annual plan, biannual narrative, annual financial, audit and narrative reports will be worked out
following CSA regulations and back donor procedure and will be communicated to all pertinent
bodies timely.

8.5 Responsibility for project property transfer on project termination

Inherent in the phase-out strategy of the project is the fact that project is in line with the
government strategy of empowering women and child protection strategies and goals that have
been under implementation by different governmental organizations such as Women Children
and Youth Affairs bureaus/offices, Labor and Social Affairs Office, Micro and Small Enterprise
agency and etc. Furthermore, MCDP has been implementing similar projects that target female
Street Children and Women Empowerment projects in close collaboration with the government
structures that will take over the MCDP activity when the projects phase out in order that the
continuity of the MCDP activity is ensured. Therefore, MCDP will keep on doing those best
practices of aligning its project activities with the government organizations that are responsible
for implementing similar policies and programs to scale up its best achievements through
government structures. In addition, child protection activities that should continue after the
project termination will be linked to community based structures in Ditta woreda and Arba
Minch town. MCDP will also ensure the transfer of fixed assets of the project as per
proclamation no621/2009.

9. Assumption and Risks&Mitigation Measure

9.1 Assumption
The following must happen in order that the project specific objective and its outcomes to be
realized:

 Trainees should develop self-reliant attitude and the trainers must have the necessary
knowledge of initiating positive youth female psychology and have the necessary materials

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 Relevant government stakeholder/project partners must see the project as one of their local
development plan and owns and provide timely supports

 Local community members and Child Participation structure should be proactive in

disseminating issues on unsafe child migration and its implication on the life of their
children

 Inflation may not skyrocket to the extent discouraging the implementation of the project
activities;

 unexpected delay in the proposed project approval from the funding agency must not
happen

 relevant government bureaus/ministries timely facilitates the commencement of the project

9.2 Risks and Mitigation Measure

Identified Risk Mitigation Measure

Unrealistic expectation of stakeholder and
beneficiaries
There may be high level of inflation in the
country
Conduct open discussion with stakeholders and
beneficiaries and ensure accountability and joint
responsibility regarding the project resources and
the expected results
Follow cost effective strategies and helping small
business starter to identify the most viable
business engagement given the startup capital
they have.

Relevant government stakeholder/project Promote beneficiaries representation in the

partners may not expedite the cascading of
training on unsafe child migration and fully
mainstream the issues in their regular work
governance of the organization.
Conduct conductive discussion in the course of
the project cycle with government stakeholders so
that they could consider the project as one of their
local development plan and owns and provide
timely supports.

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 10.Sustainability and phase out strategies
10.1Sustainability Strategy
The project sustainability is ensured through the empowerment of the program participants,
through creating heightened transparency among local actors and through bringing attitudinal
changes to promote self-help and initiating positive action to curb the despair fullness that led to
unsafe migration. Hence the program will pursue the following steps:

 Steering ownership of program activities by the beneficiaries, CBOs and beneficiaries,

local/ Woreda level government actors and their respective counterparts at zone level
through ensuring participation in project cycle management.

 Ensuring the project activities are in line with the government policy and program and
smooth transfer of project results to be embraced by the routine government follow up
activities and budget support.

 Ensuring all of the action’s components are linked to local institutions and knowledge(i.e.
we can secure continuity only if there is strong beneficiary participation in planning and
implementation right from the start)

 The project will work with local structures and supporting them to smoothly takeover
project activities and ensure local ownership. The project extensively uses the living
knowledge and experience of the target communities and their organizations in the
process of project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

 Closely working with others who work on curbing unsafe migration, such as Bureau of
Labor and Social Affairs, Micro-finance institutions and Law enforcing bodies,

 Further strengthen working with the beneficiaries based structures (Saving and Credit
Cooperatives, Beneficiaries based Support groups, Idirs etc.) and ensuring the self-
reliance.

 Establishing and/or strengthening referral linkage with relevant offices of the government
and non-governmental institutions with in the networks of MCDP.

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  Monitor and assess the indicators of potential unsustainable developments within a broad
context.

10.2Phase-Out Strategy
The project phase out strategy, among others, involves ensuring that all concerned government
and private actors who had stake in the project implementation envisaged the day to day follow
up of the project results and mainstream the achievement in their regular program
implementation. Hence, the project hands over all project resources including strategy
documents and fixed assets to Charity and Societal Agency conduct project exit consultation
with all concerned government actors at woreda and zonal levels and thereby ensure smooth
transfer of responsibility and follow-up.

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Map of Ditta woreda

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