National Association for Children Protection

Introduction and Background:

National Association for Children Protection (NACP) is an independent registered non-government and nonprofit civil society organization based at El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan. NACP prime motto is capacity building and services delivery in the field of Child protection, women, youth empowerment and peace building.

In 2018 a group of educated, dynamic and like-minded youth (including male and female) working in the development and humanitarian sector, got together to establish an organization, for addressing the most urgent and pressing needs of children in war and conflict affected areas such as in Darfur. True to this spirit the organization was named National Association for Child Protection (NACP) and officially registered to HAC under registration number (1061) as a local NGO.

The type of activities being undertaken by  the organization range from awareness raising and capacity building to service delivery, with focus remaining on Child protection issues. Whereas in terms of operations what characterizes NACP functioning are its efforts to (a) enlist involvement of the locals when initiating activities at the grass root level; and (b) mobilize women for bringing peace, tolerance, and development in society.

Although a somewhat new entry in the development and humanitarian field, NACP – owing to the linkages with national & international funding agencies – enjoys a diverse portfolio, characterized by partnership with organizations such as UNICEF, SCI, SCCW, and Ministry of Health Social Development.

Mission Statement:

The mission of NACP is to create a protective environment for children and vulnerable group by empowering, developing women and youth and raising community awareness.

Vision:

Towards building a healthy ,  educative and productive  and well-informed community for the rights of human, children and women and creating meaningful employment opportunities for young people.

Goal/ Overall Objective:

The goal of NACP is to contribute in improving the living standard of the vulnerable communities children, women and youth in particular of Uganda  through community mobilization, capacity building, advocacy & strengthening of institutions at the grass root level taking the Sustainable Development Goals (17 SDGs) as main guide lines.

Objectives:

• To support and facilitate education services to vulnerable children.
• Contributing in peace building, livelihood , development
• To reduce child abuses, violence, exploitation
• To support and empower women, youth, and people with special needs.
• To raise community awareness towards respect for children rights, human rights, and rule of law
• To make family reunification (FTR), homelessness, and those who had been excluded from school.
• To provide health and WASH services to the community particular children
• To provide psychosocial support and protection for war affected children.
• To provide nutrition facilities to children.

Strategy 

A sustainable strategy is devised to achieve the maximum, a need based and right based approach initiated ascertains the problem with fully community involvement and mobilizing all indigenous and local resources. The program goal is materialized with a helping hand from members, donor agencies, and charitable.

Thematic Program / Areas of Focus     

• Child Protection including Physical support
• Youth  Empowerment
• Civic Education
• Peace building and conflict mitigation
• Women Empowerment
• Education
• Health & Nutrition
• Free Legal Aid
• WASH
• Emergency Response and Preparedness
• Democracy and Governance.
• Livelihood and development.

Organizational Values

v  Child protection is duty of every adult human being according to his/ here position

• Honesty
• Respect for individual
• Integrity
• Participation in communal activities
• Transparency in all transactions
• Accountability to all the actions/deeds performed by an individual
• Creativity
• Cost efficiency
• Gender sensitivity

Values guiding our work

• TRUE: Ensuring transparency at all levels of our work
• PROFICIENCY : Providing creative expertise and strong commitment
• SOLIDARITY: Within our NGO and with the people we aim to support
• JUSTICE: Within our NGO as well as in community
• INTEGRITY To act according to the values we wish to promote
• FLEXIBILITY Showing our willingness to change and learn

Influenced by the new development paradigm, which puts people before things, NACP follows a participatory approach in every sphere of its work. The traditional knowledge of the rural poor is valued and respected, and there is confidence that rural people are capable of self-reliant organization. On a practical level, the fundamental thrust of this approach is decentralization and empowerment.

For a community to be able to work for its own development and reduce its dependency there is a need for full involvement at all stages of the development cycle. The participation of communities in identification, planning, management, implementation and evaluation of projects is a key factor in NACP work. Internally a participatory approach is adopted in managing the affairs of NACP.

Externally, NACP role as a “change agent” helps to develop community management structures that are capable of managing their own development. This increases the ability of the community to demand accountability in all their affairs, from leaders and officials. It reinforces the community’s belief in the value of their own development choices and efforts. These community management structures are not parallel structures, but are built upon traditional institutions, promoting equitable representation and participation

Human resource development is an essential part of our development work. This means ensuring that the community is trained and skilled, as well as organized, to maximize the potential of the community to take hold of its own development.

NACP strongly believes in maximizing its impact by transferring field experiences into knowledge to influence the development policies and practices of NGOs, donors and government agencies. This is important for working towards the long-term goal of eradicating poverty.

Approach

During the process of Child protection , health, peace building program , education  and social mobilization, NACP adopted a participatory, self-help, self-sustainable and feedback  approach through community involvement and formation of volunteer groups in remote rural areas of work.

Philosophy

Sustainable Child protection and other development program  is a dynamic process posing various needs at different phases of time. These can be dealt with continuous interventions based on designed frameworks that incorporate the requirements projected by the communities and with the help of the communities by strategizing for public-private partnership.

Scope of Work

NACP has strong linkages with major NGOs and funding agencies working in Darfur. It has undertaken initiatives in the area with special reference to UNICEF, USAID TEPs, SCCW, SCI , SEVERWORLD and  other line Ministry of Health and Social Development through collaboration with local CBOs and activists. NACP includes rich experienced individuals either in executive team or in the board of directors, or working in the diverse socio-cultural environment of Darfur and an extensive networking with the region & local Governments, civil society institutions, media.