Workshops to disseminate findings from research undertaken in partnership with All Survivors Project | October 2024
In December 2022, the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (OSRSG CAAC) published a research report entitled “Responding to conflict-related sexual violence against boys associated with armed forces and armed groups in reintegration programmes”. This report focused on the situation of boys in the context of the armed conflict in the Central African Republic (CAR).
In a follow-up to this report, two restitution workshops were held in the Central African Republic: in the capital, Bangui, on 2 November 2023, and in the capital of Haute-Kotto prefecture, Bria, on 8 November 2023. The workshops were led by All Survivors Project (ASP) as an implementing partner of the OSRSG CAAC and were delivered in partnership with the Central African Republic Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) in Bangui and the international NGO Plan International in Bria. The workshops brought together staff from local, national, and international NGOs, state services, community network members, and community representatives involved in both the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) and in the provision of services for victims of sexual violence (SV).
The restitution workshops had three main objectives:
- To be accountable to those who contributed to the research and ensure that findings and recommendations were shared with them;
- To disseminate the research results to and inform the work of key actors involved in reintegration activities for CAAFAG; and
- To discuss with relevant stakeholders recommendations for implementation and ways forward.
At the end of September 2024, ASP held a workshop with members of the child protection community, of the gender-based violence Area of Responsibility (GBV AoR) and of the CP AoR in Bangui. This workshop was to discuss the implementation of recommendations from the above-mentioned research report including the finalisation of a Note d’orientation pour la prévention et la réponse aux violences sexuelles faites aux garçons en RCA, which was one of the key recommendations from the research report.
This summary report compiles the discussions from these three workshops: the two restitution workshops in November 2023 and the September 2024 workshop to discuss implementation.
