Prevention and Response to Sexual Exploitation & Abuse in Liberia

prevention and response to GBV. At county level,
the Task Force falls under the umbrella of the PCG
and is chaired by the county Gender Coordinators.
Achievements:
• Development of the Medical Report to be used in SGBV
Prosecution (in collaboration with Ministry of Health and
Social Welfare)
• Development, training on, and implementation of
standardized monitoring and reporting tools relating to the
management and response to GBV, including common
reporting forms to ensure enhanced data collection on
SEA and other forms of GBV (See Annex 6)
• Improved data collection and dissemination on SGBV
and SEA prevalence
• Establishment of a SEA subcommittee that successfully
developed and implemented a National SEA Campaign
launch, work plan, roll-out and evaluation (Details
below)
• Provision of a national forum for information-sharing
on GBV, including SEA issues that require policy
interventions and a space to conduct a needs analysis
for implementation of relevant sectors in the GBV POA
Challenges:
• Absence of consistent monthly reporting from all
partners in the field on GBV/SEA cases, which
hampers the Ministry of Gender & Development ability
to advocate for policy change
• Lack of capacity of the GBV Unit of the MoGD to act
as secretariat for the Task Force, collect, maintain and
disseminate GBV statistics
• Communication problems between county Gender
Coordinators and MoGD staff at the national level, as
well as among County Gender Coordinators
2.2 PSEA Awareness
The ICN awareness subcommittee has now been
subsumed into the National GBV Task Force.
Initially, this group developed a Media Plan and
Awareness Raising Strategy for SEA in Liberia,
which was shared with the President of Liberia,
who advised that implementation should take place
through MoGD under the auspices of the GBV Task
Force, given that SEA is a form of SGBV. In order
to implement the media campaign, the GBV Task
Force appointed an ad-hoc SEA Sub-committee
tasked with planning the launch of the campaign,
developing and implementing a work plan and
approaching donors for the resources necessary for
implementation. The sub-committee was chaired
by the UNCT PSEA Coordination Officer, who also
acted as the sub-committee secretariat. Members
include representatives from MoGD, UNICEF, WFP,
IRC, ARC, CCF, SAVE-UK, OXFAM, MERLIN, CVT,
and the local NGOs known as FIND and EFHI. This
group meets twice monthly to ensure a high level of
commitment, enthusiasm, timely information flows
and an ability to respond to challenges as they
occur.
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2.2.1 National SEA Campaign
The SEA Campaign was launched by H.E.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in December 2006
(See Press Release, Annex 7) and rolled out by the
GBV Task Force through the SEA Sub-committee
throughout 2007. The sum of US$378,064 was
ultimately directed toward the launch, rollout and
evaluation of the campaign. Implementation began
with the development of a common work plan
(Annex 8), which was organized around four result
areas:
• Improving substantive knowledge on SEA prevention
and response, including through training for civil
society, the education, law enforcement and justice
sectors, the development of standardized training
materials, and other initiatives
• Use of various media to raise SEA awareness,
including radio and newspaper messaging, mass
awareness activities in communities and development
and procurement of IEC materials, the most successful
of which were the conspicuous orange wristbands
that were distributed nationally
• Mobilization of sufficient resources to implement the
work plan
• Evaluation of the campaign
Achievements:
• Successful launch of the campaign by the President
(See Presidential Address, Annex 9)
• Anti-SEA campaign concert, jingles and dramas
were featured on UNMIL Radio and community radio
stations across the country
• Cartoons and anti-SEA messaging appeared in
several newspapers
• A common SEA/GBV training kit was developed and
circulated to each county Gender Coordinator, the
GBV Task Force and PCG
• Common SEA/GBV sensitization materials aimed at
schools and illiterate populations were circulated to
every county Gender Coordinator and main supporting
agency
• IEC materials were developed and distributed including
wristbands, billboards at RIA, Spriggs Airfield,
the Freeport and Redlight (a densely populated
crossroads to 9 out of 15 counties), banners, posters,
stickers and t-shirts
• A campaign Evaluation Report was finalized with
recommendations on how the campaign can better
address SEA in Liberia
• Mapping of activities was conducted across the
country, revealing a lack of attention to the Southeastern
region. As a result, additional funds were
mobilized to use the “Day of the African Child” of June
15, 2007 as a platform for country-wide awareness
campaigns focused on the prevention and response
to SEA with special emphasis on activities in the
Southeast