UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Published purpose

The project aims to end violence against children, with a focus on ending sexual violence against girls. “Together for Girls” is a global public-private partnership that aims to improve the capacity of countries to prevent and respond to violence against children, by mobilizing and sustaining a global movement to end the human rights violations, public health impacts and long-term individual and social consequences associated with violence against children, especially sexual violence against girls. The Government of Canada joined this partnership to help further efforts to end violence against children in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia Pacific, and help expand the partnership to Latin America. With Canada’s additional resources, UNICEF and the “Together for Girls” partnership aims to implement a Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) in a new partner country (Colombia) and support the action plans in two current partner countries (Tanzania and Cambodia, a member of La Francophonie). Project activities include: (1) conducting and supporting a national survey on the magnitude, nature and impact of violence against children through VACS; (2) supporting coordinated programme actions in response to completed VACS data in Tanzania and Cambodia; and (3) supporting a monitoring and reporting system in Tanzania and Cambodia and using this information to lead global advocacy and public awareness efforts to draw attention to the problem and promote evidence-based solutions.