Plan International was founded over 75 years ago with a mission to promote and protect the rights of children. The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War. Langdon-Davies conceived the idea of a personal relationship between a child and a sponsor – a model that puts the child at the centre, and remains the core of what we do. Today, Plan International is a global organisation that is active in over 70 countries to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Who We Are We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. We work with communities around the world to end the cycle of poverty for children. Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is a nearly $800 million organization often ranked among the top 10 international development agencies by reputation, size and scope. We work side-by-side with communities in 50 developing countries to end the cycle of poverty for children, developing solutions to ensure long-term sustainability. Our level of community engagement, long-term outlook and constant focus on the needs and priorities of children is unique among international development organizations. Our solutions are designed up-front to be owned by communities for generations to come and range from clean water and health care programs, to education projects and child protection initiatives. Community by community, Plan works to promise futures that are worthy of all children’s potential. Our Vision Our vision is of a world in which all children realize their full potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. Our Mission Plan strives to achieve lasting improvements in the quality of life of vulnerable children in developing countries by: Enabling children, their families and their communities to meet basic needs and to increase their ability to participate in and benefit from their societies; Fostering relationships to increase understanding and unity among peoples of different cultures and countries; and Promoting the rights and interests of the world’s children.
- Experience 3 – 5 years
- Location Yobe
Background: Plan International Nigeria is implementing the BMZ ÜH Project to Restore the Peaceful Coexistence and Social Cohesion of the Population Affected by the Conflict in the Lake Chad Basin. With the aim to promote social cohesion through the rehabilitation of social infrastructure and the integration of IDPs and refugees, the project will ensure that adolescent girls and boys, as well as young women and men in Yobe state of Nigeria have access to appropriate and timely SRHR services and structures and also, that Community mediation structures are in place in the project areas in Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger to prevent and deal with conflicts between members of the community and to promote non-violent conflict resolution and peaceful coexistence of the various different groups living there.
In the field of social cohesion and peaceful coexistence (all three countries), the target groups (beneficiary and/or target) are host communities, IDPs and refugees, as well as conflict resolution structures to be strengthened. These conflict management structures are already existing community committees (in most communities), which are functional and recognised by the communities as conflict resolution bodies. By supporting the structure-building activities (sub goals 1-3) by strengthening the (already existing) community committees, tensions and conflicts between the various groups should be resolved peacefully and thus ensure the long-term impact of the development outcomes. At the same time, it should be ensured that these communities do not take a “step backwards” and become stabilising communities again. To this end, the community committees must be strengthened and legalised (support that the state cannot provide). In addition, conflict-sensitive mechanisms for referring conflict cases to the competent authorities should be developed, a conflict database set up and conflict analyses carried out.
Method of Application
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Applications should be sent to [email protected] on or before Thursday 16th December 2021 by 5:00pm
