SEXUAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION OF BOYS IN SOUTH ASIA A ...

• Develop interventions to address family dysfunction, including domestic violence,
abuse and alcoholism.
• Assist families to build their awareness of child vulnerability, keep children in school
and increase household income.
Strengthen community protection
• Establish community-based protection networks for boys and girls, with emphasis on
building community ownership, creating vigilance on abuse and exploitation, reducing
risk factors for children, and addressing social and economic inequalities.
Reduce abuse in the schools
• Conduct programmes in schools to create child-friendly learning environments.
• Provide training to children and teachers on sexual health, sexual abuse, gender
relations and related issues.
• Establish codes of conduct and protection policies for schools.
• Train teachers in positive discipline skills and ways to identify and respond to cases of
sexual abuse.
Establish boy-friendly judicial processes
• Develop guidelines for investigating the sexual abuse and exploitation of boys.
• Provide boy-sensitive training to police, judges and lawyers on how to work with,
communicate with and support vulnerable children, particularly boys.
Strengthen programme development
• Provide the training, time and resources to allow adequate situation assessment,
strategy development, budget formulation and programme design.
• Involve children in programme design and development.
Strengthen programme management and implementation
• Provide training and require both donors and recipients to ensure adequate monitoring
and evaluation of programmes.
• Provide training and technical supervision to ensure comprehensive management of
human and physical resources.
• Involve children in programme monitoring and evaluation.
Strengthen human resources
• Establish job competencies and training standards for all persons working with abused
and exploited children.
• Develop comprehensive training programmes based on certifiable skills development.
• Develop mechanisms for monitoring work quality and addressing the needs of staff,
particularly in situations where staff are working directly with children.
Mainstream quality programming
• Disseminate quality practices through the exchange of skills and experiences.
• Improve the identification of good practices.
• Adapt viable practices to diverse cultural and social contexts to bring them up to
scale.
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