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Child Protection (CP) actors in the Afghanistan reached 2.8 million beneficiaries who include (girls: 510,701 & boys: 733,548) with CP services in from Jan - Sep 2023. This includes 204,702 beneficiaries who received structed PSS and referral to specialized psychosocial and mental health support services, 62,508 unaccompanied/separated minors and children facing other protection risks received case management and reintegration services, while 1,309,526 children/adolescents/men & women were sensitized on child protection issues. Furthermore, 15,012 humanitarian workers including social workers & community volunteers were trained on Child Protection support services.
NOTE: Due to the ban on National female staff working for NGOs on 24th Dec 2022, there was only a partial implementation of activities which continues to negatively impact on our achievements especially reach to children and women. However, all possible operational adaptation modalities are being explored to sustain implementation of activities including integration with education and health facilities and use of virtual or remote approaches for delivering case management and PSS. The raise of achievement in February was due to backlogs of reports completed leading to rise in percentage of reach while the decline in June was due project funds ended and New Projects being processed, and implementation may start after July with the full projects yet to kick off. Overall, the use of the newly revised HRP targets from 4.8M down to 3.8M and budget from $ 50.1M down to $ 37M effective July has led to an improvement in the coverage of targets and closed the funding gap significantly.