UNICEF Child Right Project

The SVSS aims to create a favourable environment in the rural settings of Rajgarh block, Mirzapur district, Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote child rights and improve living conditions. This aligns with UNICEF India’s Child Protection Programme, which aims to safeguard children from abuse, violence, and exploitation by enhancing access and quality of services. Drawing on our extensive experience in children’s issues and successful implementation of projects like child rights and protection in Rajgarh Block, Mirzapur district, our organization intends to achieve the following outcomes:

• Ensuring that all children aged 6-14 have access to quality education at the elementary level in 153 villages.
• Establishing a child protection structure to address child rights and child protection issues, particularly child labour.
• Enhancing knowledge and attitudes of families and communities to promote child rights and protect children from violence, exploitation, and abuse in 153 villages of Mirzapur district.
• Improving vulnerable families' access to service providers and social protection schemes.
• Empowering and building the capacity of women/SHG members to advocate for and promote children's rights, especially those from socially excluded groups.

Given our extensive experience and expertise in working at Rajgarh Block since December 2011, SVSS is well-suited to implement the proposed project. We have established strong partnerships with civil society, district-level government departments, NGOs, CBOs, and PRIs in our working areas.

The primary objective of this initiative is to protect child rights, particularly those children involved in labour, and ensure access to education for 6–14-year-olds across 153 villages in Rajgarh Block, Mirzapur district. We will promote and facilitate concerted action from children, community representatives (including female Panchayat heads, SHG and CPC members, SMC and VEC members), and government officials, including teachers, to ensure child rights protection. Special emphasis will be placed on the 10-point child-friendly agenda, which includes three home-based and seven service-dependent behaviours, such as preventing early marriages, ensuring universal consumption of iodized salt, and promoting school enrolment and completion for all children aged 6-14. Additionally, environmental sanitation and the utilization of water and sanitation facilities will be emphasized. In this project 10860 beneficiaries were covered under this project.