Protection

SCC’s protection program focuses on safeguarding women and children while also developing community-based protection systems, strengthening social cohesion, and integrating IDPs into the host community.The program promotes primary prevention of and response to GBV, particularly sexual violence against women and girls who are affected by conflict and disaster, and includes the creation of evidence-based "good practices".Strengthening positive social norms that safeguard women and girls from violence is a priority, and using societal dynamics to alter social norms that cover up or actively promote violence is another. Our programs also put a lot of effort into helping kids become more resilient and capable of coping with any risks or dangers they may encounter.

To prevent harmful traditional practices that affect children's protection from violence, such as physical and humiliating punishment, female genital mutilation, and early marriage, we collaborate with and build the capacity of caregivers, community-based protection mechanisms, and local partners.We always make sure that our projects consider gender, and if it's possible, we strive to create gender-transformative projects.

KEY ACTIVITIES

Provision of psychosocial assistance, and post-rape treatment to GBV survivors
Support for cash and voucher assistance through case management systems and conditional cash transfers to individual vulnerable women and girls.
Provision of dignity kits, menstrual hygiene kits support, and vocational training skills to create a livelihood opportunity for the survivors
Promoting the right of all women and girls to live free of violence and abuse.
Increasing the ability of medical personnel to provide comprehensive, compassionate treatment and support, as well as developing environments where survivors can access high-quality services that are centered on them.
Using community dialogues as venues to bring people together in a secure environment, raise awareness about the negative effects of sexual assault, and assist participants in changing damaging social norms about gender, masculinity, stigma, and silence regarding sexual violence.

IMPACT

43,200 lives

In the last 3 years, our protection projects have promoted GBV response and prevention for 43,200 Emergency-affected persons.

Our Vision

Peaceful, justice, and prosperous Somalia

Our Core Values

SCC is committed to promoting the following values:

Commitment: Those we serve come first in everything we do. We champion the realization of their full potential to lead fulfilling lives and contribute meaningfully to society.
Results orientation: We are driven by the changes and impacts we exist to create. We are committed to providing timely and high-quality solutions and services.
Open communication: We believe in granting access to information. We value and use the best approaches to communicate amongst ourselves and with others. We support all stakeholders to understand and express themselves in relation to their wellbeing and provide input in our service delivery
Competence: We are committed to acquire, develop and retain the highest possible quality personnel as a basis of assuring the best organizational performance and standards.
Creativity and innovation: We are committed to ensuring a work environment that encourages innovativeness and embraces new ideas and technologies to make our work more effective.

Areas of intervention

SCC is implementing software and hardware programs in the areas of WASH, Protection, GBV, food security, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and Education.

Our local and international partners, with whom we have created real sustainable work; our workers, local and expatriates, who often cooperate with us for decades; the final beneficiaries of the interventions; local and international authorities; friends and supporters.

Over the years we have developed projects in a whole range of sectors: such as Health care and Nutrition, Vocational Training, Primary Education, Protection, and Environmental Sustainability, WASH programs for IDPs and poor hosting communities to increasingly complex and innovative projects – economic projects; support to small and medium organizations and Cooperatives; Capacity Building of institutions, both public and created by local civil society; protection of human rights; habitat and territory.

We also learned to deal with humanitarian aid and emergency (environmental and social) and with the security issues that these interventions require. We currently read development projects as opportunity and sustainable.

With conviction and pragmatism, we want to go beyond the logic of gift whenever the conditions of the communities we work with permit this approach: in Somalia and in the neighboring countries our partners ask for a real partnership. This means accepting with the courage to overturn our role.

Protection

Our Vision

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Areas of intervention

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