United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has promised to support any initiative that seeks to strengthen the government’s policy on child protection and abuse such as Gender Based Violence, GBV and sexual exploitation, particularly in Internally Displaced Persons, IDP camp, in Benue State.
It made the commitment yesterday in Makurdi, during a stakeholders meeting organized by UNICEF in collaboration with JASPI Health and Gender Development Initiative on how to Plan and Agree on Sexual and Gender Based Violence, SGBV and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, PSRA, Implementation Priorities in Benue state, which brought together stakeholders from Ministries, Departments, Agencies and MDAs.
Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF Enugu field office, Victor Atuchukwu, lamented that such cases are most rampant in the Internally Displaced Persons camp.