Chad: The activities in 2012 at a glance
Awareness raising and capacity building among actors in the social and legal protection chain for minors in N’Djamena (shelter centres, Bar Association, police and gendarmerie forces, traditional authorities, NGOs, social services, etc.) and lawyers: • 1 introductory workshop on institutional care of minors at the beginning of the project. • 1 awareness-raising workshop and 1 training workshop for traditional authorities. • 1 workshop on legislation and competencies and roles of the various actors, with representatives of the police and gendarmerie forces. • 5 training sessions for 15 lawyers on instruments for protecting minors, followed by individual coaching of the lawyers in following up cases and how to deal with the public prosecutor’s department and juvenile court. • 2 workshops for exchanging knowledge and training of resource persons within APLFT (partner association of ASF) and several NGOs working with minors. • 1 knowledge exchange and training workshop for shelter centres for minors (15 participants). • Creation of a database on care of minors by the various actors involved. • 3 waves of broadcasting radio messages, informing the population about the services and legal support possibilities offered by the project.
The assistance mainly involved cases of: • abuse • economic exploitation
International criminal justice:
• rape
• Finalisation of a baseline study on international criminal justice in Chad.
• forced marriage • statutory rape • abduction of a minor • arrest and illegal detention
Legal clinics were available at set times at APLFT’s offices. Visits were organised to shelters for minors, in order to create an individual file on each minor. Visits to prisons and police stations enabled cases requiring attention to be identified. ASF then followed up the minors taken on to ensure that the planned reintegration measures were applied effectively.
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