Protection and Socioeconomic Inclusion for Venezuelan Children and Adolescents on the Move

This project seeks to improve protection and socioeconomic inclusion for Venezuelan refugee and migrant children and adolescents especially girls in host communities in Brazil Colombia Ecuador Guyana and Peru. Targeting more than 41 thousand migrant and refugee boys girls and adolescents. Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance and advocacy for drafting national and local legislative and policy reforms that ensure gender-responsive sustainable and implementable policies and services for migrants and refugees; (2) increasing the capacities of the social service workforce to improve protection for migrant children and adolescents; (3) providing technical assistance to implement life skills and network-building support strategies for adolescent girls and LGBTQ2 adolescents; and (4) increasing the capacities of adolescent girls and LGBTQ2 migrant adolescents by strengthening their life skills capacities and further access to employability and economic empowerment.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) strengthened response of gender-sensitive government systems to prevent and address the vulnerabilities faced by migrant girls boys and adolescents; (2) increased access to sustainable care protection and justice services for children especially unaccompanied minors girls and LGBTQ2 children; and (3) increased access to social inclusion opportunities through equal participation empowerment and life skills for adolescents affected by human mobility especially adolescent girls and LGBTQ2 adolescents.