Adolescent Empowerment & Ending Child Marriage – District Administration Balasore
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Adolescent Empowerment & Ending Child Marriage
Nomination
- Lack of self-confidence among the adolescent rescued from child marriage, elopement and trafficking.
- After prevention, no follow-up and no proper rehabilitation were undertaken in child marriage cases.
- No appropriate analysis of the condition of the family and children was done.
- The family was losing wealth, the children were deprived of education and faced social and psychological pressures from family and community.
Achievements
- Developed a Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) to bring those vulnerable adolescents into the mainstream by leveraging them with different schemes/programs.
- Monthly review meetings of mentors have been conducted regularly under the chairmanship of the district collector.
- Organised mentorship programme and physical verification of the situation in coordination with the village-level child welfare & protection committee.
- A senior officer is assigned to children with the objective of building their trust, and self-confidence and linking them to appropriate schemes and programmes.
SKOCH Award Nominee
Category: Administrative Reforms – District
Sub-Category: secAdministrative Reforms – District
Project: Adolescent Empowerment & Ending Child Marriage
Start Date: 2022-10-01
Organisation: District Administration Balasore
Respondent: Mr Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, Collector & District Magistrate, Balasore
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Level: Executive Plus
See Presentation
For more information, please contact:
Mr Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, Collector & District Magistrate, Balasore at dm-balasore@nic.in
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