Protecting Venezuelan Migrant Children on the Move

Results achieved as of December 2020 include: (1) increased technical protection response for migrants. Mainly increased the development of mechanisms for children crossing borders to provide more adequate care including shelter within the overall child protection systems; (2) established in Colombia drop-in centres and strengthened a national route to support family reunification; trained local government personnel in Colombia on how to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in a migratory context and developed a community model for prevention of GBV; supported the Colombian National Protection Agency for Children in strengthening its work with the creation of a new migration work unit; (3) established in Ecuador comprehensive support spaces to provide psychosocial support legal aid and referral to specialised services to migrant girls and boys; also ensured care homes are also available especially for unaccompanied adolescents in transit and primarily to provide assistance in family reunification; (4) laid the ground work in Peru for an alternative care system for unaccompanied children including shelter care and training on case management; and (5) reached more children than anticipated including at least 4 681 girls adolescent girls and boys (against a target of 2 500 children reached) in receiving specialized attention in the three countries; assisted 1 100 unaccompanied minors in some of the alternative care modalities. Results achieved as of December 2021 include: (1) 1 174 unaccompanied girls and boys received specialized attention under protection systems; (2) 8 602 girls and boys accessed quality services through differentiated sexual gender based violence strategies and tools; and (3) six public guidelines were generated by the authorities in the three countries. UNICEF offered technical assistance for protection response that met the needs of migrants and refugees within the countries. In Colombia Ecuador and Peru the project benefited