UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Published purpose

This project seeks to improve protection and socioeconomic inclusion for Venezuelan refugee and migrant children and adolescents, especially girls, in host communities in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru. Targeting more than 41 thousand migrant and refugee boys, girls and adolescents. Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance and advocacy for drafting national and local legislative and policy reforms that ensure gender-responsive, sustainable and implementable policies and services for migrants and refugees; (2) increasing the capacities of the social service workforce to improve protection for migrant children and adolescents; (3) providing technical assistance to implement life skills and network-building support strategies for adolescent girls and LGBTQ2 adolescents; and (4) increasing the capacities of adolescent girls and LGBTQ2 migrant adolescents by strengthening their life skills capacities and further access to employability and economic empowerment.