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Families Matter! Program (FMP)

Promoting Parent-Child Communication to Eliminate Child Sexual Exploitation

Location

Enugu

Duration

3 years

Status

Complete
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LGA Covered
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States covered ( Enugu,Abia,Imo,Delta )
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Participants and Adolescent Reached

Project Background

Families Matter! Program (FMP), is an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention for parents, guardians, and other primary caregivers of pre adolescent’s ages 9–14 years for FMP 1 and 15 -19 years for FMP 2. It promotes parenting and effective parent-child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction, including risk for child sexual abuse and gender-based violence for parents or caregivers/parents. The ultimate goal of FMP is to reduce sexual risk behaviour among adolescents – including delaying onset of sexual debut – by equipping parents/caregivers the knowledge, skills, comfort, and confidence to deliver primary prevention messages to their children and to create a protective environment.

Project Objective

Improving parents’ ability to effectively communicate with their children about sexuality and sexual risk reduction.
Raising awareness about the sexual risks teens face today and encouraging general parenting practices that increase the likelihood that children will not engage in risky sexual behaviors.
Addressing the difficult issues of CSA and GBV through culturally-acceptable and age-appropriate content and highlighting the key role parents can play in protecting their children from CSA and GBV.

Activities

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