Child Protection
HARPA actively promotes child protection across its areas of operation by strengthening community-based systems that safeguard children from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. The organization works closely with families, schools, community leaders, and local authorities to create safe and supportive environments for children, particularly those affected by conflict, displacement, and poverty. Through awareness campaigns, psychosocial support, child-friendly spaces, and capacity building for caregivers and service providers, HARPA enhances community resilience and ensures that vulnerable children have access to essential protection services. Its interventions are aligned with national and international child protection standards, reinforcing the rights and well-being of every child.
HARPA has strengthened its child protection and welfare initiatives by empowering communities, caregivers, and survivors to build resilience and prevent human rights violations. The program prioritizes vulnerable populations such as internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, refugees, and host communities—tackling issues like family separation, child recruitment, sexual and gender-based violence, neglect, and the lasting effects of conflict, displacement, and disasters.
Through a family-centered approach, HARPA works closely with children, families, communities, and local authorities to enhance protection systems and ensure effective service delivery at both community and institutional levels. This strategy promotes stronger coordination among service providers, households, and local structures, fostering greater awareness, access, and responsiveness to child protection needs.
HARPA collaborates with government agencies, humanitarian partners, and community-based organizations to align its interventions with national and global child protection frameworks. Its key activities include establishing and managing child-friendly spaces, offering psychosocial support, conducting frontline worker training, and organizing community dialogues. HARPA also promotes awareness and advocacy through school and community campaigns and participates in national and international observances such as the 16 Days of Activism and International Day for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC Day).
HARPA, in partnership with UNICEF, supports drought-affected families with child protection, nutrition, and health services to keep children safe and thriving.