Assignment:
Enhanced capacity of Community-based structures to deliver psychological first aid (PFA) to South Sudanese
refugees in Rhino camp.

Outcome
• Enhanced capacity of Malteser to establish a community-based psychosocial support mechanism
• Supported establishment of referral pathways to link identified people with mental health needs to existing
specialized services
• Supported Malteser to develop a framework for delivery of psychological first aid in Rhino camp

Reference contact: Mr. Cedric Quint on cedric.quint@malteser-international.org

Assignment: Provide MHPSS training and psychotherapeutic services to survivors of violence

• Enhanced capacity of the survivors as a grassroot peer support network currenting responding to mental health and psychosocial needs in respective communities in Gulu.
• 30 survivors received psychotherapeutic services and as a result, improved their coping and resilience
Reference: nicole@mukwegefoundation.org

• Enhanced capacity of association members for NoSSSU /RAWL to respond to mental health and psychosocial needs of their peers and community members in the refuge settlements of Bidi-Bidi, Adjumani and Kiryandongo in Uganda.
• The association established community-based support groups in the refuge settlements of Bidi-Bidi, Adjumani and Kiryandongo in Uganda.
• Referral pathways were strengthened to ensure people identified in need of specialized mental health services
are linked and supported.
Reference: Mr. Gideon Daud daud.gideon@gmail.com

Assignment:
Trained and equipped staff with skills to integrate MHPSS into programing. Reviewed and strengthened implementation of Child safeguarding and PSEA Policy.

Results /outcomes
• Increased awareness of FAWE staff on child protection and psychosocial needs of beneficiaries
• Increased ability to identify psychosocial needs, support and make appropriate referrals
• Strengthened capacity to implement child safeguarding Policy
Reference: jadiama@faweuganda.org

Assignment:
Built capacity of staff to prevent and respond to child protection including provision of psychosocial support using a community-based approach in the regions of Nduta and Mtemdeli. Support development of IEC materials for prevention of violence in campsOutcomes:
• Established the community-based child protection and psychosocial support mechanism to respond to
protection needs of host communities and Congolese refugees
• Increased child protection competence for trained staff and community-based volunteers
• Developed and disseminated culturally appropriate IEC materials on protection of children from abuse

Assignment:
Enhanced the capacity of staff to plan and provide mental health and psychosocial support services for target beneficiaries in South Sudan.

Outcomes:
• Developed a GBV manual for training community volunteers in South Sudan
• Enhanced competencies of Healthnet staff to implement mental health and psychosocial support services
• Integrated Mental health and psychosocial support into Healthnet programmes
• Enhanced support supervision skills for Healthnet staff

Reference: Bonifce Duku po1@ss.hntpo.org

Assignment:
Developed capacity of 12 grassroots organizations in Puntland, South Central Zone and Somaliland. TPO also supported government institutions to mainstream child protection and psychosocial support interventions into Health and Education training and development of training manuals.

Outcomes:
• Developed a five-year child protection strategy
• Enhanced capacity of 12 organizations with a social service workforce to plan and implement child protection strategy.
• Developed and availed funding portfolio of $1million for UNICEF to support the implementation of the child
protection strategy.
• Increased access of child protection and psychosocial support services by displaced children and their families
• Mainstreamed Child protection and Psychosocial support into health and education sectors.

Through contacts that we had established with academic institutions such as; the International Trauma Studies Program, NYC; Fordham University, US; the Free University of Amsterdam and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, TPO management negotiated partnerships with these universities to send their post graduate students for study placements with TPO Uganda. Indeed around 2007, TPO Uganda hosted its first international Training of Trainers Course in Psychosocial support. This first cohort was oversubscribed and we enrolled about 22 students from all over the world but mostly from the USA. Students on this three week course, spent one week in classroom training and 2 weeks on accompanied field placement with a TPO field Social Worker. We advertised this course through the International Trauma Studies Program, NYC USA, which was already very popular in this field of work, and we continued conducting these trainings until 2010. This course was hosted by TPO Uganda at the Arua Resource Centre and co-facilitated by international trainers. This arrangement provided coaching and mentorship for TPO in-house capacity in conducting international trainings. This became one of the most lucrative of all our training programmes. TPO Uganda has collaborated with several of them on different initiatives in the recent past.

Assignment:

Strengthened the capacity of AMISOM personnel to protect children and women in Mogadishu. Integrate child and civilian sensitive programming into peace-keeping operations. We also developed SoP for working with children and women with a pocket size version with translation in Swahili for easy use.

Outcomes:
• Conducted pre and post deployment training to facilitate cultural adaptation and orientation on handling
children in contact with armed forces.
• Worked with Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) and UNICEF to develop Standard Operating Procedures for handover and reception of children rescued from the Lord’s Resistance Army.
• Trained trainers from selected battalions in the application of SOPs
• Supporting the cascading of child and civilian protection among the forces
• Supported the integration of child and civilian sensitive programming into their peace keeping operations.

Assignment:
Strengthened the capacity of partner International and local organization to deliver post conflict mental and psychosocial support services in Monrovia and other parts of Liberia.

Outcomes:
• Developed GBV and psychosocial support Training manuals for social workers and teachers
• Trained community volunteers of UNICEF Partner CSOs/NGOs on basic psychosocial and mental health
interventions
• Trained over 60 staff of UNICEF Partner organizations to deliver mental health and psychosocial support
services.
• Developed monitoring framework

Assignment:
Enhanced the capacity of local partners in the provision of child protection and psychosocial support services.

Outcomes:
• Developed tool kit on enhancing children’s resilience through strengthening support from teachers and Parents, raising awareness on issues affecting children and activating existing resources to support children among others.
• Enhanced capacity of UNICEF local partners in South Sudan to adopt / use the toolkit.

Assignment:
Implemented the child protection project aimed at increasing access to child protection services among war-affected children in South Kivu in DR Congo.
We built the capacity of community structures to deliver child protection services and psychosocial support to children at risk.

Outcomes:
• Strengthened community-based child protection mechanisms for identification and reporting of survivors of violence, reunification and reintegration of children formerly associated with armed forces and groups, provision of psychosocial support among other violence prevention and response interventions
• Established community-based Child-Friendly Spaces as platforms for children’s meetings, interaction with peers, acquire life skills and participate in specific activities to strengthen their resilience
• Established mechanisms for identifying and reporting six grave violations against children as provided by the
United Nations Security Council resolution 1612
• Enhanced capacity of Salvation army to provide mental health and psychosocial support in schools and
communities around Kivu province in DRC.

Assignment:
Strengthened local governments to improve planning for OVC service delivery and integration of OVC services into
district annual work plans.
We worked closely with the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) to strengthen the national
child protection system and better coordinate child protection work in the country.

Outcomes:
• Supported the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development to establish the National Child Protection
Working group which greatly improved coordination of agencies involved in child rights and protection work.
• Supported the development of the national VAC survey report between 2015 to 2018 and the roll-out of alternative care framework under a pilot project in partnership with Child Fund and RETRAK.
• Developed a national OVC manual that standardized the training activities targeting the social service workforce in the OVC thematic area
• Developed the child protection manual for Training of Para social workers.
• Trained over 2000 Para social workers in the areas of child protection under the sustainable outcomes for
children and youth funded by USAID between 2015 to 2020.
• Increased access of social protection services by Orphans and other vulnerable children from trained Para
social workers
• Trained CSOs and NGOs to deliver critical services to vulnerable children and their families.

Assignment:
Strengthened capacity of DCW’s partner organizations in Uganda employees working with deaf children and vulnerable youth in child protection and safeguarding. We developed a curriculum document and rolled out a training for DCW partner organization staff.

Outcomes/Results
• Equipped up to three partner organization employees with basic knowledge and skills on child protection and safeguarding.
• Reviewed DCW partner policies on child protection and safeguarding through self-audit and risk assessment
exercises

Assignments conducted:
Provided leadership and technical oversight in the development of the National and international training Curriculums covering Mental health, Psychosocial support and Child protection. Through our established partnerships with academic institutions such as; the International Trauma Studies Program, NYC; Fordham University, US; the Free University of Amsterdam and the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kyambogo University & Nsamizi institute of social development, we were able to accomplish the following:

• Our international academic institution partners sent their post graduate students for study placements with TPO Uganda
• Jointly trained international students in mental health and psychosocial support
• With our national level academic institutions in Uganda, we supported the development of the National Child Protection Curriculum that saw the integration of Child Protection course units into existing undergraduate and post-graduate programmes at Makerere and Kyambogo Universities, and Nsamizi Training Institute.
• Supported the development and roll-out of the three-month Practice Oriented Professional Certificate in Child Protection Course at Makerere University.

Our first client was UNICEF Uganda in 2003 and this arose out of recommendations in the NUPSNA (Northern Uganda Psychosocial Needs Assessment) interagency study that TPO had coordinated. As part of these study recommendations, we conducted trainings across over 15 districts in Northern Uganda, mostly for Probation Officers and Community Development Officers. The trainings were greatly appreciated and we started getting additional requests for training thereafter. As a result, we added a specific objective on training and capacity building in the TPO 2003 – 2005 Strategic Plan, and used the proceeds from the UNICEF training to develop and improve our training curricula, retool trainers and develop training materials and constituted a Training Unit that later become the TPO Uganda Resource Center.