Child Protection in Urban Cities

Description

The MENA Child Protection Initiative (CPI) Program hosted at the Arab Urban Development Institute is preparing reviews of the status of urban children in ten MENA cities, outlining the key institutions responsible for addressing children’s issues and assessing their capacity. The purpose of these reviews is to prepare a phased capacity building exercise in selected institutions (including the governor and municipal offices), in order to address children issues in urban and peri-urban settings with reference to child protection of vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

Services

NSCE has been contracted to provide consultancy services focusing on the review/ assessment in Alexandria.

The consultancy included the following:

• A review of the status of urban children, including health, nutritional, educational and social status, by gender and age group. As well as the review of the nature and magnitude of the problems faced by these children in Alexandria with a comparison between urban and rural children.
• An outline of institutions responsible for addressing children issues in Egyptian urban areas, especially in Alexandria. In addition to municipality offices, NGOs, key actors in this field as well as the ones who potentially could play a major role in children’ s issues.
• An assessment of the capacity of selected institutions, including recommendations for capacity building needs and a phased action plan for capacity building in including costs.

The findings of the study have been compiled into a final report that includes the above reviews and assessments.