COSECAM organized a strategy development workshop in mid October with an aim to identify and deliver effective services to child victims, build professional capacity for NGO members, design and strengthen cooperation and collaboration mechanisms and explore options for funding. 

The participants are managerial staff and directors from the COSECAM’s member organizations.

The workshop solicited the services being delivered by the member organizations to child victims, vulnerable children, and child at risks. 

The services being delivered included shelters (including those for handicaps), drop-in center, rehabilitation center, vocational training, healthcare, counseling, non-formal education, legal support, job placement, fund support, small business for clients’ families, and foster care, and a lot more.

Each organization claimed it couldn’t provide a full range of service or complete package of service to the victims. The participants suggested that all organizations should cooperate to strengthen and improve service delivery, adding that the families should be helped so that they could help the victims when their livelihood is improved.

The workshop also discussed the needs for professional capacity building or training needs. The suggested courses included Coordinated Case Management, laws related with children, monitoring and evaluation, project implementation and leadership, psycho-counseling, communications, proposal design/development, child development and protection, human resources development, policy/strategy development, conflict management, and research.

The participants suggested that training focus mainly on real practice much more than theory.