The Humanity for Development and Prosperity Concludes Community Protection Workshops in Gereida

On Sunday, August 7, 2022, the Humanity for Development and Progress concluded its 10-day training workshops on collective protection, “Protection of women and children,”.

The workshop benefited 40 participants, 20 women and 20 men from Al-Rahman neighborhood (A and B) in the city of Gereida, the capital of the locality of Gereida in South Darfur. Participants in these workshops were presented with several articles on the Human Rights, Women and Child Rights Law, as well as the 2010 Child Law in Sudan.

The participants expressed their gratitude for the Humanity for Development and Progress, the US Agency for International Development, and the International Organization for Migration.

They indicated that they benefited from these workshops, which added a lot of information to them about community protection. They, further, expressed their willingness to work and help their community, as they demanded more workshops on protection community, human rights, women, and children.

The social protection workshop “Women’s Protection” dealt with concepts about gender, dividing social roles, women’s right to resort to justice and ease of access to justice, in addition to the types of violence, its causes and repercussions, power, women’s basic rights, the definition of referral, its paths and basics, and how cases of gender-based violence are referred to the competent authorities.

The workshops were held at the Reconciliation Center of the local government in Gereida, and the participants in the workshops were divided into groups to discuss the issues and concepts they received during the workshops.

As for the community protection network “Child Protection”, it touched on international agreements on the rights of the child, the four basic principles of the rights of the child, the rights of the child before and after birth, in addition to the concept of collective protection networks.

Finally, the Higher Committee for Community Protection “Women” was formed, consisting of 6 people, 5 women and 1 man. The seats for the presidency, the representative, and the secretariat were given to women, and the membership of two women and a man.

Also, a Higher Committee for Child Protection was formed, its presidency consisting of men and women are acting presidents. The two secretaries are men, and two members are a woman and a man.
In his speech, the representative of the participants in the workshops, Salah Abkar Abdullah, thanked the attendees and the US Agency for International Development, the International Organization for Migration, and the Humanity for Development and Progress, for giving them the opportunity of these workshops.

Abkar praised the training workshops, and said that they benefited from them, and that they will work to implement them and bring them down on the ground in cooperation with the police and social welfare.

In the end, certificates were distributed to the forty students, in the presence of representatives from the Commission for Human Rights, the Sudanese police and army, and the local government.

Similar to these workshops that were presented in Gereida, the Humanity for Development and Progress intends to organize similar workshops for citizens in the Dhaka camp for the displaced, where 40 people will benefit, 20 women and 20 men.