ACTIVITY REPORT ON THE FORMATION AND TRAINING OF COMMUNITY CHILD PROTECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS- DEC 2021

• INTRODUCTION

The Department of Social Welfare and Community Development with support from UNICEF under the Integrated Social Service (ISS) delivery formed community child protection committee (CCPC) in ten (10) communities with the support of the Traditional  Authorities and Assembly members from the ten communities to serve as a watchdog over the community children in their developmental ladder. The communities selected for the formation of the CCPC include the following; Amudurase,Ataase,Asonkore,Nyamebekyere, Afedie,Kwame Agyei,Wuruyie,Akweku and Menang.

• OBJECTIVE

• To ensure that community stakeholders (Nananom,Opinion leaders,Unit committee members ,womens group) provide services to the vulnerable children and serve as a voice to any child who goes through any form of abuse.
• To ensure that community stakeholders serve as a liaison representatives who handle and also refer cases of major concern to various social services institutions such as Social Welfare,DOVVSU, NHIS  to effectively  manage such cases .

1.2 FORMATION OF THE CCPC

During the formation of the CCPC committee members, the traditional authorities of the ten communities played an instrumental role with the selection of the seven people to form the committee to protect children at the community level.  The composition of the committee comprises of reps from the traditional council, women’s group, education, religious leader, health personnel if any. After the formation three executives were voted among themselves to be the chairman, secretary and organizer. All these were basically done at the community level.

Below is the tabular representation of the gender segregation of the seven-member committee formed at the ten communities.