YOUTH / WOMEN EMPOWERMENT & GOVERNANCE
WOMEN & YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
This program empowers and creates a space for women, and youth to advocate for their rights and strengthen their social organizations. The also program focuses on women’s economic and political empowerment, their reproductive health rights concentrating on FGM and teenage pregnancy.
In addition, the program promotes women and youth in combating violent extremism with a focus on prevention measures.
On cross-cutting themes, we enhance Protection through conducting Research on Community Behavior Change & Communication (CBCC) and by conducting Capacity building for Communities and State Agencies.
PEACE BUILDING & SOCIAL GOVERNANCE
COHF believes that peacebuilding and social governance are related, the lack of former makes the latter impossible to realize and vice versa. Therefore, COHF tries to initiate sustainable development projects in tandem with its peacebuilding efforts. COHF supports communities to reconnect and build resilience in the face of the catastrophic impact of conflict-related trauma. Social cohesion requires more than the absence of conflict. It calls for the reknitting of social ties severed by violence.
COHF integrates trauma awareness, stress management and social cohesion training into livelihood activities. This helps to build the ability of individuals to manage stress and reduce conflict.