Community-Led Child Protection ProgrammeIn the Santhal Pargana region of Jharkhand, FXBIS serves as the technical partner in a consortium-led initiative preventing and responding to child sexual abuse, trafficking, child marriage, and other forms of violence. Anchored in Mission Vatsalya's framework, the programme empowers traditional tribal institutions, Panchayats, Women's Groups, SHGs, Adolescent Groups, and Children's Cabinets to take collective ownership of child protection across 60 villages.
Empowering Ato Baisis, Panchayats, and community-based platforms with capacity building, legal literacy, and child protection mandates
Village-, Panchayat-, and Block-level Child Welfare and Protection Committees providing coordinated protection from community to district
Systems enabling community actors to identify at-risk children and connect them with frontline workers, statutory bodies, and district services
Villages reached across three blocks and three districts in Jharkhand
Children reached through protection awareness and community systems
Community people reached through prevention and mobilisation activities
Child Welfare and Protection Committees activated
Families linked to social security schemes
Child protection actors, law enforcement trained; 70+ victims directly assisted
Dumka, Pakur & Godda Districts, Jharkhand (60 villages)