Scattered Dreams, Broken Promises - Women's Refugee Commission

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ways to increase personalized outreach approaches
to encourage parents to learn to listen to their children
and take action to support their security and
their futures. Sensitize parents and girls who are in
school and out of school on the rights of children to
education and on the disadvantages of early marriage.
• In distributions of non-food items, prioritize basic
needs that impact girls’ protection: Directly
provide or support programs for girls and their caregivers
with items such as soap, basins, sanitary
pads, clothing, including underwear and uniforms,
scholastic materials, and shelter materials for housing
improvements.
Next Steps
SGBV referral sign in Kiswahili, Kyaka II Settlement.
viders should collaborate closely among relevant
sectors (e.g., health, protection, security) to identify
cases of GBV experienced by adolescent girls and
ensure adequate follow-up. Engage children and
adolescents to identify and implement approaches
that make the current SGBV referral system more
adolescent-friendly, addressing language barriers,
privacy issues and outcomes for girls. To the extent
possible, follow through with external monitoring
and evaluation on the referral system’s effectiveness
in reaching adolescents.
The Women’s Refugee Commission is in the process
of identifying a local partner that will implement an
18-month pilot project at Kyaka II Refugee Settlement to
test approaches and ideas brought forward by refugee
adolescent girls and community members themselves.
Pilot projects are also to be undertaken in Ethiopia and
Tanzania and lessons learned from these pilots will lead
to models on programming for adolescent girls in the
humanitarian context. A guidance paper on the learning
from the pilots, as well as aggregate findings from the
three research missions, will be written in 2014 aimed
at humanitarian actors working with adolescent girls in
emergencies in order to inform, support and guide their
work with this vulnerable and often marginalized group.
See WRC’s website for more information on adolescent
girls. http://wrc.ms/SJBGzC.
• Sensitize parents and guardians on girls’ rights
and responsibilities through adapting more personalized
outreach approach: Ensure parents understand
the disadvantages of labor exploitation of
their children and the benefits of education. Explore