unicef cameroon annual report 2015

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Annual Report 2015UNICEF Cameroon

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03 Message from the Representative04 Cameroon at a glance05 Snapshot of results06 Nutrition08 Health

10 Water, sanitation and hygiene12 Education14 Child protection16 HIV & AIDS18 External communication19 Communication for Development20 Innovations and working with the

private sector 21 Emergency response22 Funding

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Concept and supervision | Vikas VermaCoordination assistance | Simon MinvilleWrite up and Design | Tamara Sutila


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MESSAGE FROM THE REPRESENTATIVE2015 was a groundbreaking year for UNICEF Cameroon. It was a year that sawour team take the lead in building resilience in Cameroon. We did this by betterlinking emergency and regular programmes so that the capacity of vulnerablepeople to withstand shocks and stresses could be strengthened.

By partnering with technical and financial agencies and institutions, NGOs,academia, civil society and the private sector, UNICEF was able to support theGovernment of the Republic of Cameroon in achieving major results for children:

• The circulation of wild polio virus was stopped, with the last polio casenotified in July 2014. In April 2015, Cameroon was declared polio free by anindependent external evaluation.

• Tens of thousands of refugees and host communities had their needs forhealth, nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, education and child protectionmet through an integrated humanitarian response.

• Key stakeholders in water and sanitation, nutrition and child protection were brought together to enhance coordination and shared accountability.

• The government’s commitment in reducing the country’s high levels ofmalnutrition grew as a result of high-level advocacy. An inter-ministerial

committee to combat malnutrition, comprised of nine ministries, was setup under the Prime Minister’s Office. UNICEF was able to include nutritionindicators within the performance-based financing scheme supported bythe World Bank. This will help to scale up nutrition interventions within thehealth sector.

• In the area of participation and social accountability,U-Report—a poll surveytechnology based on SMS—was launched in Cameroon in 2015. ThroughU-Report, UNICEF is aiming to build a cohesive citizen-led dialogue on socialdevelopment and human and child rights which can be communicated topolicymakers and publicized in the media to influence social change.

These results for children could not have been made without adequate funding.In this area, UNICEF continued to build partnerships with donors and the privatesector to raise and leverage enough funding for children in Cameroon. In 2015,existing and new donors helped UNICEF raise more than US$40.7 million.

UNICEF’s strategic role in Cameroon was repositioned following a mid-termreview of the country programme.

The importance of working at national and sub-national levels to better influencenational and sectoral policies and increase allocation of government resources tosocial sectors was emphasized.

At downstream level, a stronger focus was put on a programme aligned to thekey areas of the global UNICEF Strategic Plan 2014–2017 and one that aims atincreasing demand and uptake of social services.

The country programme also sought to address the root causes of vulnerabilitiesand inequities, including social norms which are harmful to children’s rights, andprioritized holistic community-based approaches for children.

As we move into the next two years of our country programme, UNICEF iscommitted to advancing children and women’s rights in Cameroon. We lookforward to our continued partnership with the government, donors and partners.

Together we will be able to offer a safe and enabling environment for children.We will ensure that no child is left aside and that sufficient resources are investedin children. Children of today are the generation of 2030.

Felicite Tchibindat

UNICEF Representative in Cameroon

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4 | UNICEF Cameroon Annual Report 2015

CAMEROON AT A GLANCE

Cameroon is a middle-income nation,

but like many of its peers, it is not aninclusive country where everyonereaps the benefits of economicprosperity.

22.2 million TOTAL POPULATION

49%CHILDREN UNDER 18 (as

16%CHILDREN UNDER 5 (as a

37.5%PEOPLE LIVING IN POVE

2.07 millionPEOPLE IN NEED OF HU(includes refugee, internally dis

103/1,000UNDERFIVE MORTALIT

782/100,000MATERNAL MORTALITY

32%CHILDREN WHO ARE ST

35%HOUSEHOLDS WITH AC

73%HOUSEHOLDS WITH AC

16%GIRLS AGED 611 WHO

31%WOMEN 2024 YEARS

Source: Demographic projecCamerounaise Auprès des M

Health Survey (DHS) 2011.

Children are hardest hit by poverty. In Cameroon,children born to the poorest families are two and halftimes more at risk of dying before the age of 5, twiceas likely to not complete primary school and fourtimes more likely to be stunted.

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SOUTH

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Cameroon also hosts the largestnumber of Central African refugees.Most are spread over 6 camps and 300community sites and villages acrossthe East and Adamawa regions. Since2014 the country has also receivedthousands of refugees fleeing BokoHaram attacks in Nigeria. Most ofthem have been living in Minawaorefugee camp in the Far North region.

Despite being endowed with significant naturalresources, including oil and gas, timber, mineralsand agricultural products, Cameroon continues torank low in human development, coming in at 153

of 187 countries in the 2015 Human DevelopmentIndex.

More than a third ofthe population lives inpoverty and poverty rateshave hardly changed inthe past 15 years.

The four regions—Far North,North, Adamawa and the East

region—are the poorest andmost disadvantaged in terms ofaccess to services.


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ding go vernmen t minis tr

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na tional and in terna tional NGO

s, communi t y- and fai th-

based organi za tions, the

pri va te sec tor, mass media and o thers to achie ve

resul ts for children in Cam

eroon.

• 65,000 c h i ldren under

5 wi th se vere acu te malnu

tri tion trea ted in the Far Nor th,

Nor th, Adama wa and Eas t r

egions—95 % o f the targe t

.

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o f

the targe t.

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en and 4 2, 950 c h i ldren

from hos t commun i t ies g

i ven

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porar y learning spaces (E TA

PE ).

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ren bene fi ted from ps yc

hosocial ac ti vi ties in chil

dren-

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c tion for Children (HAC ) ta

rge t.

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en pu t on AR V trea tmen

t to pre ven t

mo ther- to-child transmissio

n o f HI V in 15 priori t y dis tric ts.

• 30 2,615 c h i ldren (6 m

on ths to 15 years ) vaccina

ted agains t measles—80. 4 %

o f

the targe t.

• 1 7,000 emergenc y -a ffe

c ted peop le go t access to

sa fe drink ing wa ter in the

Far

Nor th, Nor th, Adama wa an

d Eas t regions— 3 4 % o f th

e HAC targe t.

• 106,500 peop le go t

access to appropria te san

i ta tion in emergenc y-a ffe

c ted

areas in the Far Nor th, Nor

th, Adama wa and Eas t regi

ons— 71 % o f the HAC targ

e t.

• In April 2015, Camer

oon was dec lared free

o f po l io transm iss ion b

y an

independen t e x ternal e val

ua tion.

• 15,866 soc ia l mo b i l i zers were trained and

deplo yed in all 10 region

s during

polio immuni za tion camp

aigns.

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Trends in stunting among children under 5,2004–2014

Source: DHS 2004, DHS 2011 and MICS 2014

NUTRITION

Advocacy

• Coordination of the nutrition response.• Nutrition advocacy with senior officials in Parliament,

civil society and private sector.• Building a strong knowledge base on nutrition in

Cameroon.

Services

• Twice yearly Vitamin A supplementation anddeworming for children under 5.

• Improving infant and young children feeding practices.• Management of severe acute malnutrition cases.• Home food fortification to reduce anaemia.

Emergency response• Nutrition services for refugee, displaced and food-

insecure children.• Nutrition-sensitive interventions in emergency water,

sanitation and hygiene (WASH), HIV, child protectionand mental health programmes.

Capacity building

• Skills development of partners in data analysis andsupply management.

Resource mobilization

•

Domestic funding of nutrition through the privatesector• Fundraising with new donors• Leveraging resources from other partners

Partnerships

• Technical assistance to the government, private sectorengagement, partnership with academia, training ofparliamentarians and working with donors to integratenutrition into funding schemes.

UNICEF AND PARTNERS IN ACTION

Source: Enquête Camerounaise Auprès des Ménages 2014;MICS 2014; SMART survey 2014; Lancet 2013.

• Up to 1.2 million of children arestunted.

• More than 190,000 children arewasted—70,000 severely wasted.

• 2 out of 3 children are anaemic.

• Only 28% of children are exclusively

breastfed.• Only 20.9% have a minimum

acceptable diet.

• 45% of child deaths are linked toundernutrition.

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UNICEF successfully supported:

The creation of an inter-ministerial committeeon nutrition (nine ministries involved) within thePrime Minister’s Office.

The accelerated action plan for nutrition adopted;focused on the most vulnerable population.

Inclusion of nutrition indicators in the World Bankperformance-based financing strategy of healthsector.

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ALPHONSE BARBA | A 13MONTHOLDMALNOURISHED BOY

In a Kar-Hay community health centre, baby Alphonse lies

pale and listless in the arms of his mother. Only just over a

year old, he weighs 5kg and his body mass is half of what

is normal for his age. Janine, his mother, explains: “He just

started losing weight, had watery stool, was very tired and

dizzy. I took him to our traditional healer for treatment

against infant diseases but his condition worsened.”

Malnutrition is a silent killer. Parents or caregivers often ignore

the symptoms and don’t take a child to the clinic until he or

she is very sick. At an acute and severe stage, malnutrition

is life threatening. Health experts highlight that due to poor

nutrition, the early days of a young child’s life are very critical.

Most families don’t eat food that provides the right nutrients,

vitamins, and minerals. However, things are changingmedical workers say. “Thanks to the intervention of UNICEF

with various medical equipment, drugs and other assistance

to fight malnutrition, this health district is able to identify,

treat and also monitor cases,” said one of the health staff at

the Kar-Hay community health centre. Little Alphonse and

many other malnourished children are now benefiting from

free medical attention and have seen their health improve

dramatically after a few days of intensive care.

RESULTS FOR CHILDREN IN 2015

3,400 cases of severely malnourished childrenidentified in refugees camps in East region. 364 families trained in psychosocial stimulation to promote

their children’s mental and motor development.

Around 65,000 severely malnourished children under 5(95% of the target) admitted to therapeutic care. Of these,

46,000 children or 71% were cured.

44,942 cartons of therapeutic food and 970 therapeutic milk provided to treat malnutrition.

4.3 million children over the age of 1 yeardewormed— 86% of the target.

4.9 million children (6 months to 5 years)supplemented with Vitamin A— 84% of the target.

52,488 mothers in the North region sensitized on infantand young child feeding (IYCF) practices and micronutrientpowder use.

1,856 people trained in IYCF practices in five regions. The European

Commission’s HumanitarianAid and Civil Protection department

(ECHO); Bureau of Population, Refugees

and Migration (US State Department);Government of Japan; Central EmergencyResponse Funds (CERF) and UNICEF

National Committees of Spain and Italy.

Total amount raised in 2015 for

NUTRITION:

US$5,055,085

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K Y OU T O O U R D O

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Trends in under-five mortality, 2004–2014

2004 2011 2014

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Source: MICS 2004, 2011 and 2014; DHS 2004 and 2011.

HEALTH

Advocacy

• Support to government coordination of disease and Ebola surveillance.

• Advocacy to improve the cold chain, strengthen routine immunization and respond to poliooutbreaks.

• Advocacy to scale up newborn care such as Kangaroo Mother Care and use of antibiotics tofight newborn infections.

• Governor’s Forum organized in five regions to support polio immunization rounds.

Services

• Integrated community-based management of childhood infections.• Mass immunization campaigns for children under 5.• Introduction of measles-rubella combined vaccine and the injectable polio vaccine into

routine vaccination schedule.

Emergency response

• Updating the cholera contingency response plan for East and Adamawa regions.• Three-pronged immunization strategy: mass campaigns, systematic vaccination of

newcomers at entry points and routine vaccination.• Distribution of LLITNs for malaria prevention.

Capacity building

• 15,866 social mobilisers trained and deployed in all 10 regions to support polio immunization.• Training 40+ community radios to produce high-quality, targeted radio messages, as well as

trans-border stations involved in the Central African Republic refugee crises.• Developing the skills of service providers on polio epidemic preparedness and response;

seasonal malaria chemoprevention strategy; cholera response; neonatal care; anddecentralized monitoring for action.

• Mass sensitization campaign against Ebola in the South region.Partnerships

• Partnerships with 177 community radio stations, 67 women’s groups and youth groups,traditional leaders, trade practitioners, civil authorities and religious groups.

• Support to coordination of H4+ partnership to improve maternal, newborn and child health.Funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation (SIDA) and managed byWHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, UN Women and The World Bank.

• Partnerships with 4,000 women from 69 women’s group in the Central and Littoral regions tosupport polio immunization.


Source: Situation Analysis of Children in Cameroon - Towards a BetterFuture for Children in Cameroon, UNICEF, 2016.

• 1 in 8 children dies before the age of 5.

• 1 in 13 children dies before the age of 1.

• 1 in 30 babies dies in their first month of life.

• The top 3 child killers are malaria (21%),diarrohea (17%) and acute respiratoryinfections (17%).

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MOSQUITO NETS CURB MALARIA

CONSULTATIONS DRAMATICALLYThe community of Moutourwa in the Mayo Kani division of the Far North

region is making history in its fight against malaria. With funding from

the Japanese government, UNICEF has been distributing mosquito nets to

vulnerable women and children in the area. This has resulted in a significant

drop in malaria cases. According to the Senior Warden of the Moutourwa

District Hospital, Hassana Mamaï, before the nets were distributed, there

were on average 150 patients with diagnosed malaria every month. After

distribution, the number dropped to 50.

Malaria is the leading cause of illness and death in the Moutourwa locality.

But the use of mosquito bed nets is reversing the situation. “Since the

distribution of mosquito bed nets started, our hospitalization wards are

empty,” said Hassana Mamaï. In the maternity section, the impact was also

visible. “Thanks to the distribution of mosquito bed nets to pregnant women,

we have witnessed a rise in the number of women received for antenatal care

from 20 women per month to 40 women per month,” disclosed Mariatou

Bichaïr, head of the maternity section.


Cameroon declared polio free by anindependent external evaluation in April 2015.

Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) successfully

introduced in Cameroon in July 2015.111,233 refugee children under 15 immunizedagainst measles.

269,089 children under 15 vaccinated duringmeasles epidemic.

20,678 women of reproductive age vaccinatedagainst tetanus.

To prevent malaria, 86,980 LLINs distributed to8,085 refugee families in refugee-designatedsites and 38,480 refugee and host families incommunities.

3,500 LLINs distributed to pregnant womenand mothers of children under 5 in the Far Northregion.

30 health facilities received medicines to treat

152,993 patients (including 2,322 newbornbabies).

The Government of theUnited States of America; the

Global Thematic HumanitarianResponse Fund; GAVI Fund; the Government

of Japan; the United Kingdom Departmentfor International Development; the

Islamic Development Bank; the SwedishInternational Development Cooperation

Agency; the Rotary Fund; the Reproductive,Maternal, Newborn and Child Trust Fund

and UNICEF UK.Total amount raised in 2015 for HEALTH:

US$12,794,487

T HANK Y O U T O O U R

D O N O R S

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Total Urban Rural

% of households using animproved source of water

% of households usingimproved toilets that are not

shared with others

73

93

54

35

56

15

Access to safe drinking water and adequatesanitation, 2014

Source: MICS 2014

WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE

Advocacy

• Sustainable management of water points by

councils.• Ending open defecation and promoting

Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) withlocal and administrative authorities.

Services

• CLTS activities launched in 613 villages.• Distribution and prepositioning of 118,626

WASH kits.• Construction and rehabilitation of 202

boreholes.• Construction of 1,134 emergency latrines and

98 institutional latrines.

Emergency response

• 47 partners trained on the WASH emergencyresponse.

• Coordination of WASH sector response toemergencies.

• Preparedness and response to the choleraepidemic.

Capacity building

• Establishment and training of 250 water point

management committees.• Training of 128 water pump repair technicians

and providing them with 26 sets of water pumptoolkits.

• Training of 102 NGO social workers and 1,899community members on CLTS.

Partnerships

• Promotion of public-private partnerships.


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400,000 people in East, Adamawa, North

and Far North regions reached through WASHactivities.

106,500 people got access to improvedlatrines.

70,000 people got access to safe drinkingwater.

12,551 children recovering from severe acutemalnutrition received WASH kits with key hygienemessages.

2,591 affected families in communities hostingrefugees received WASH kits with key hygienemessages.

OLD HABITS CAN BEBROKENIn Gonai Gatchou, Moulvoudaye, a lasting

change has swept over the village. Every

family now has a latrine where none existed

before. “Open defecation is a thing of the

past,” says the village head. Gonai Gatchou is

one of the 400 villages in the Far North region

where UNICEF has helped to put an end to

using the bush, fields, open streams or rivers

as a toilet. The project helps communities to

inculcate a culture of hygiene and sanitation

using participatory methods. Each family

digs its own latrine and ensures that every

member washes his or her hands with soap

after visiting the toilet. “We have learnt to

wash our hands with soap. We use wood

ash to wash our hands in the absence of

soap,” says Jean Tobokbe, a villager. “Since we

started using latrines, the number of children

complaining of stomach aches has reduced

tremendously. Diseases like diarrhea and

cholera are now rare in our village,” she says.


Development of the CLTS national strategy,including guidelines for CLTS implementation,with the Ministry of Water.

Formulation of the WASH-in-schools strategywith the Ministry of Bas ic Education.

Establishment of the WASH sector group oftechnical and financial partners.

Inventory and mapping of WASHinfrastructures in the disadvantaged Far Northregion.

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The Government of theUnited States of America; theGovernment of Japan; Global

Thematic Humanitarian ResponseFund and CERF.

T H A N


N O R S

Total amount raised in 2015for WATER, SANITATION AND

HYGIENE:

US$6,495,362

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Source: Ministry of Basic Education/EMIS 2014

EDUCATION

Advocacy• Advocating early childhood development

among refugee communities.• Promoting girls’ education.

Services

• Strengthening education informationmanagement and managementmechanisms in the context ofemergencies.

• Supplying teaching and learning materialsfor teachers and pupils .

Emergency response• Increasing children’s access to quality

education among refugee, displaced andhost communities in the East, Adamawaand the Far North regions.

Capacity building

• Capacity building of six educationinspectors, 730 teachers and 580 membersof school management committees inresilience, education in emergencies andpeace-building.

• Technical support to the Ministry ofEducation to strengthen disaggregatedvulnerability mapping.


Source: MICS 2014; Lois des Reglements, 2014.

• 15.7% of children aged 3–5 attendpreschools in rural areas compared to44.3% in urban areas.

• Only 53% of children of the right age attend secondary school compared to85% of primary-aged children in primaryschool.

• 15.5% of the national budget isallocated to education sector.

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The Government ofthe United States of America,European Commission/ECHO;

United Nations Office for the Coordination

of Humanitarian Affairs; Global ThematicHumanitarian Response Fund; theGovernment of Japan; the Government

of Canada and UNICEF UK.


EDUCATION:

US$4,084,525

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112,340 children in the East, Adamawa, Northand Far North regions benefited from teaching andlearning supplies.

51,313 refugee children and 42,950 childrenin the East, Adamawa, North and Far North regionsgot access to child-friendly temporary learning spaces(ETAPE). Three preschools were set up in Minawaorefugee camp, with 543 children, including 272 girls, enrolled.

SCHOOL CHILDREN AS AGENTSOF CHANGE Yaya Saidou is a 13-year-old ‘Minister of Health’ at his

school in Zokok-Laddeo village in Far North region.

Assisted by health delegates from all classes, he helps toensure that the school, and especially the toilets, are kept

clean. Yaya holds cabinet meetings in which the pupils

discuss the implementation of their policies and how to

deal with other issues, such as the lack of discipline.

According to the school director, the work by the ‘Minister

of Health‘ and his team—in instilling hygienic habits—

has largely contributed to a successful school WASH

programme.

Within the context of this project, UNICEF has supported

the construction of boreholes and modern latrines formore than 700 boys and girls. Since then, fewer children

are absent from school. Also the culture of hand washing

and the respect for hygiene have not only been embraced

in the school, but have a positive spillover effect in the

community. “Many parents tell me that their children are

always putting pressure on them to wash their hands

with soap,” said the school director.


Development of a national communitypreschool strategy.

Development of a WASH in schools strategy.

Baseline education survey of Baka andBororo ethnic minorities.

Bottleneck analysis of the barriers tochildren’s education.

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32,8

18,2

Early marriage (% of women 15–49 years)

Birth registration (% of children under 5)

Child labour (% of children 5–17 years)

Trends in early marriage, birth registration andchild labour per wealth status, 2014

Source: MICS2014

CHILD PROTECTION

Advocacy

• Supporting inter-ministerial coordination of child protection sector.• Advocacy with parliamentarians, Ministry of Justice, civil society, and traditional

and religious leaders to increase the age of marriage for girls; preventdetention of children and provide alternative methods to imprisonment; andstop sexual violence against children.

Services

• Modeling a decentralized, community-based and formal child protectionsystem.

• Improving universal birth registration within the legal deadline.• Establishment of a data collection and monitoring system on child well-being,

children at risk and child rights violations.• Strengthening access to justice for children.• Using community dialogue and social mobilization to change social norms

and harmful traditional practices that violate child rights.

Emergency response

• Preventing family separation and registration, tracing and family reunificationof unaccompanied and separated children.

• Release, demobilization and interim care of children recruited by armedgroups.

• Monitoring and reporting on grave child rights violations.• Psychosocial support to children affected by conflict.

Capacity building

•

Technical support to the Ministry of Social Affairs to develop policies andstrengthen service delivery.• Technical support to the National Civil Registration Office to improve the birth

registration system.• Technical support to develop a child protection information management

system.

Partnerships

• UNICEF supports inter-sectoral partnership and coordination within thegovernment to develop a comprehensive child protection system.


Source: MICS 2014

• 11% of adult women were married before the age

of 15 at national level; in the North region, morethan twice as many were married before 15 (24%).

• 48% of adolescent girls aged 15–17 haveexperienced physical or sexual abuse at least once.

• 66% of children under 5 have birth registration atnational level; in the Far North region, only 42% havebirth registration.

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Governments ofCanada and Japan; CERF and

Global Thematic HumanitarianResponse Fund.


CHILD PROTECTION:

US$2,270,216

T H A N

K Y OU

T O O U R

D O N O R S


In the East and Adamawa regions, 357 separatedchildren and 77 unaccompanied children identifiedamong refugees and placed in foster families.Among these,

10 internally displaced and separated

children reunified with their families.

In the Far North region, 128 unaccompaniedchildren and 72 separated children identifiedamong refugees and placed in foster families.

Among internally displaced communities, 258 unaccompanied children and 1,225 separatedchildren identified were referred to the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross for family tracing andreunification.

34,527 refugee children benefited frompsychosocial activities through child-friendly spaces.

ALONE BUT IN GOOD HANDS For a few minutes at a time, 11-year-old Tina can

forget the journey she has undertaken to come

here, fleeing the violence in Nigeria on her own. It’s

been nine months since Tina crossed the border into

northern Cameroon without her family. “Armed menattacked our village, and they burned down our

houses,” she recalls. “I just ran away and followed

other people.” After several days, she reached the

Minawao camp. “We made a long and difficult

trip,” she says. “I was with men, women and children

fleeing the war. I had to follow them, and I was really

scared of what happened to our village.”

When Tina was identified as an unaccompanied

child, she received clothing, psychosocial support

and personal hygiene products. She was then taken

into a foster family while efforts are made to findher own family. In the meantime, Tina attends a

child-friendly space supported by UNICEF. She is also

learning to sew, garden and cook and is excited to

show off her new skills to her parents one day. “I am

happy that, in the absence of my own family, I am

protected by another family,” she says.

*Name has been changed.


Endorsement by the National Office on CivilRegistration of the Africa Programme onAccelerated Improvement of Civil Registrationand Vital Statistics (APAI-CRVS).

Comprehensive assessment of the CRVS systemand preparation of costed national plans.

Establishment of the Inter-ministerial Committeeon Civil Registration and Vital Statistics.

The African Union’s campaign to end childmarriage and establishment of a nationalplatform to accelerate the end of child marriagein Cameroon.

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HIV & AIDS

Advocacy

• Support to the UNAIDS and UNICEF All In to End

Adolescent AIDS initiative, especially advocacy to scaleup HIV prevention, treatment and care services foradolescents.

Services

• Supply of dry blood spot commodities for early infantHIV testing of 25,000 exposed children.

• Distribution of reagents for CD4 PIMA machines toenable 2,000 CD4 tests.

• Provision of 15,000 rapid tests.

Emergency response

• HIV testing of pregnant women in refugee camps and

host communities.• Referral of HIV-positive children who were also suffering

from severe acute malnutrition.

Capacity building

• Training 1,277 community workers in communitymobilization.

• Training 900 health providers in national norms forquality service delivery.

• Developing the skills of 150 government and NGOpartners in decentralized monitoring to tackledisparities in access, coverage and quality of motherand child healthcare and PMTCT services.

• Support to 4,610 trained peer educators to enhanceadolescent and youth HIV prevention.

Partnerships

• UNICEF is a part of the UN joint team on AIDS. UNICEFleads the PMTCT and paediatric care components incollaboration with WHO and on youth and adolescentstogether with UNFPA.


Source: MICS 2014; DHS 2011; Situation Analysis of Children in Cameroon - Towards a Better Future forChildren in Cameroon, UNICEF, 2016.

• Teenage girls (15–19 years) are twice as likely to be living with HIVand AIDS (2% prevalence).

• Only 32% of teenage girls and young women (15–24 years) havecomprehensive knowledge of HIV and AIDS compared to 41% of

adolescent boys and young men.

• 53.3% of HIV-positive pregnant women have access to PMTCTservices at national level.

• Only 6.5% of HIV-positive children under 14 have access to ARVtreatment.

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The Government of Japan,

Centers for Disease Control andPrevention, Government of Andorra,Global Thematic HIV and AIDS Fund;

Global Thematic HumanitarianResponse Fund and National

Committee for Andorra.

Total amount raised in 2015for HIV and AIDS:

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(in 15 UNICEF-supported priority districts in the Far

North, North, East, Central and South regions)

70,221 pregnant women received HIVcounseling and testing.

93.15% of pregnant women who testedpositive (3,283 in total) put on ARV treatment toprevent transmitting HIV to their babies.

84,500 adolescents and young peoplesensitized on HIV prevention.

14,039 adolescent and youth counseled andtested for HIV. Of these, 5,900 received resultsand the 57 teens/young people who testedpositive were referred to treatment centres.

136 HIV-positive children with severe acutemalnutrition referred for HIV care and treatment.


Mobilization and sensitization of adolescentsand young people to test for HIV through

youth-friendly healthcare services and specialevents.

Evaluation of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) national plan.

Elaboration of an eMTCT operational plan andthe paediatric care treatment operational planfor 2016–2017.

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THE STORY OF ESTHER ANGEL Esther Angel, a 35-year-old mother has been working as a

community relay and peer educator in Dschang since 2008.

Like all other peer educators at Saint Vincent Hospital, she isHIV-positive. Her life’s mission is now to help others fight stigma

and live with hope and possibility. She is also one of many

women who has successfully benefitted from the prevention

of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme at the

hospital.

“I love helping others go through their situation and encourage

infected women to give birth to HIV-free children,” Esther says.

“Today I am a happy mother of a healthy boy. All this started

with psychological support and treatment that I got from the

hospital.”

At the Saint Vincent hospital, the PMTCT programme has

provided jobs to eight HIV champions such as Esther. They

have been trained and equipped with tools to reach out to

both HIV-positive and negative people in the hospital and

surrounding communities.

UNICEF is supporting PMTCT and youth HIV prevention

services in 15 divisions in Cameroon with funding, material

and training. More than 5,000 peer educators and community

relays workers have been trained. Another 1,000 will be trained

before the end of 2017. Esther and her fellow HIV champions

have contributed to improving access to PMTCT, which nowcovers 95 per cent of women living with HIV in Dschana.

“Knowledge of one’s HIV status is vital, especially for pregnant

women, so that they can access appropriate treatment and

care for themselves and their infants before and after birth. Not

knowing one’s HIV status acts as a barrier to PMTCT services,”

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EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION

RESULTS FOR CHILDREN IN 2015More than 100 articles published in the media on UNICEF’s work inCameroon.

More than 15,000 people reached on the UNICEF Cameroon Facebookpage.

7,000 copies of UNICEF Magazine produced. The magazine showcasesthe improvements UNICEF Cameroon is making in the lives of childrenand women, and provides visibility to donors and partners.

Special programmes on child marriage and equity broadcast onnational radio and TV.

50+ university students briefed on child marriage.

More than 100 students of ENKO College La Gaiete in Yaounde briefedon equity.

More than 60 students from the University of Maroua attended aconference on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Advocacy and coordination

• Field visits with media, donors and other partners.• Advocacy meetings and interviews with

the media, ministers, policy makers andparliamentarians.

• Production of advocacy documents.• Social media engagement.• Photo and video documentation.

Emergency response

• Media and donor field visits to emergencyprojects.

• Organization of Sports for Development (S4D)activities.

• Photo and video documentation of UNICEF’semergency response.

Capacity building

• Training of journalists on child rights and featurestory writing.

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Briefing of students from the Advanced School ofMass Communication, University of Yaoundé 2,on the negative effects of child marriage.

• Briefing of school children on the Convention onthe Rights of the Child.

Partnerships

• Child-friendly journalists programme inCameroon to be expanded to the West andCentral Africa region.


UNICEF’s work in external communication puts the spotlight onthe situation of children in Cameroon. By partnering with themedia, Parliament, local influencers and donors, children’s voices

and realities are brought to life and used to advocate for change.

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COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT RESULTS FOR CHILDREN IN 2015

150 traditional and religious leaders in the East region and Adamawa

and 36 in the Far North region involved in advocacy meetings andcommunity dialogue on children rights and essential family practices.

5 support groups established in 5 health districts to carry out educativetalk on infant and young child feeding practices, especially exclusivebreastfeeding.

35 animators trained in refugee camps in the East, Adamawa and FarNorth regions, and in the 5 villages hosting refugees.

10 listeners‘ clubs in the East region active and eight women’s groups inGado refugee camp trained on interpersonal communication.

111 C4D pools set up and trained, and 5 campaigns conducted onessential family practices in Timangolo, Borgop, Mbile, Gado, Ngamrefugee camps.

474 members of C4D pools trained on the promotion of hygiene,nutrition, mother and child health and child protection in 9 refugee sitesand 81 villages.

9 community radios bordering Nigeria and 56 community radiopractitioners from Chad, Central African Republic and Cameroon trainedon child and refugee rights, peace building and tolerance.

Advocacy and coordination

• Advocacy meetings and community dialogues on children’s rightsand essential family practices, involving traditional and religiousleaders.

• Support to regional and local coordination and follow up ofadvocacy meetings and of rural radio activities with local listeners’clubs.

Emergency response• Training animators in refugee camps and hosting villages.• Supporting listeners’ clubs and women groups• Training C4D pools on educative talk and social mobilization.• Organizing campaigns on family practices in refugee camps.• Producing and dispatching C4D material (flyers, caps, T-shirts, charts

and training guide).

Capacity building

• Training multi-sectoral C4D pools and networks of women andyouth groups on interpersonal communication to facilitate familydialogues and home visits.

• Capacity building for cross border radio practitioners from theEastern Cameroon and from Chad and the Central African Republicon child and refugee rights, peace building and family practices.

Partnerships

• Technical and operational partnership with the Ministry of Familyand Women Empowerment to enhance national social mobilizationcapacity.

• Partnership with community radios, mobile cinema, and informalcollaboration with a national network of traditional leaders.


Communication for Development (C4D) helps to change individualbehaviour and social norms to positively benefit children and women. It isa two-way process for sharing ideas and knowledge, using communicationtools and approaches that empower people and communities to improvethe lives of the most vulnerable members of society.

60,000 refugees reached by 22 radio programmes.

35,000+ refugees and host community members reached by mobilecinema on hygiene and maternal survival.

52 radios promoted best practices on health, nutrition, educationand hygiene.

1 video clip produced on children as ‘peace builders’ in the East region. M E D I A R E A C H

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EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Cameroon faced major humanitarian crises in 2015. Around

300,000 vulnerable people from Central African Republic andNigeria continued to seek refugee in the country. In the Far Northregion, 124,000 people were forced to flee their villages and live inhost communities as a result of conflict with Boko Haram.

These two crises were also exacerbated by the deterioration of thenutrition and food security crises as well as by cholera and measles outbreaks. In 2015, it was estimated that 2.07 million people were inneed of humanitarian assistance.

To respond to the urgent needs to affected children and families,UNICEF supplied key nutrition and health commodities and

medicines, trained health workers and supported screening andtreatment of children with severe acute malnutrition.

Psychosocial support was given to distressed children while thefamilies of unaccompanied and separated children were traced andchildren reunited with them. To give children a sense of safety andnormality, children’s education was restored through temporarylearning spaces and teacher training.

UNICEF helped to promote essential family practices such as exclusivebreastfeeding and hand washing with soap to reduce the risk ofdisease malnutrition in children.

Boreholes and latrines were constructed or rehabilitated to provideaccess to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation. UNICEF alsosupported the Ministry of Health to respond to cholera and measlesoutbreaks.

UNICEF helped to strengthen coordination of the emergency response by co-leading, in partnership with the government, stakeholdergroups in WASH, nutrition, education and child protection.


60,400 children under 5 treated for severe acute malnutrition, including 5,300 refugee children from the Central Africa Republic and Nigeriaadmitted to nutrition centres and 19,300 children given WASH kits with keyhygiene messages.

125,000 refugee and internally displaced children benefited from teachingand learning supplies.

75,100 refugee and displaced children provided with psychosocial support.

244,000 children, including 86,200 children from the Central AfricanRepublic, vaccinated against measles.

Total 2015 requirements

Funds available

US$40,200,000

US$12,098,291

Emergency funding, 2015

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FUNDING

In 2015, UNICEF continued to nurture relationships with its main donors andthe private sector in Cameroon. Partnerships were also cemented with newdonors such as KfW, Islamic Development Bank and USAID. As a result, a total

of US$ 40.7 million was raised during the year, thanks to generous donorcontributions.

Other Resources

(Emergency)US$11,240,667

Regular

ResourcesUS$12,414,812

Other Resources

(Regular)

US$17,054,244

UNICEF programme budget, 2015 Funding by programme, 2015

US$5,488,043

US$12,789,020

US$6,789,514

US$5,078,649

US$2,259,020

US$1,914,720

US$1,888,264

US$3,928,105

Education

Nutrition Social Policy and Planning

WASH HIV and AIDS Health

Cross-sectoral programme

Child Protection

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