Name : Save the Children in Albania

Link : http://www.scalbania.org

Description :

Save the Children works for:

A world which respects and values each child
A world which listens to children and learns
A world where all children have hope and opportunity

The organization's strategic goal is to ensure Albanian children's rights to survival, development, protection and participation, by strengthened partnership with government, civil society, and children

Today they are a serious player in the field of children's rights in the country, focusing on improvements in children’s education, combating all forms of violence against children and promoting the rights of children – especially those facing discrimination, such as disabled children and children from ethnic minorities.

Save the Children is committed to address the most burning issues facing the child population in Albania in order to help promote children's rights. Their aim is to ensure that Albania's path towards development includes the participation and protection of children.

To achieve their tasks, the organization primarily works with and through partners like non-governmental organizations, UN and the Government. This ensures that the rights of the greatest number of children are met in the best possible way. They constantly monitor and evaluate all projects to ensure quality in their work.

Name : Terre des hommes Mission in Albania

Link : www.tdh.ch, www.tact-project.com

Description :

Terre des hommes Mission in Albania is a national branch of the Terre des hommes -Child Relief Foundation with Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Terre des hommes Foundation is a Swiss NGO whose vocation is the promotion and protection of Child Rights worldwide.
Terre des hommes is actively engaged in the prevention of child trafficking in Albania through prevention campaigns, schooling programs and social support at a communal level as well as by the repatriation and social or family reinsertion of children.

In conjunction with the Albanian authorities, Terre des hommes has put in place a transnational program to fight child trafficking. The Albanian Foundation NPF, the Greek NGO Arsis and other national and international organizations are also involved in this project which covers 19 Albanian districts and mobilizes social workers in the streets of Athens and Thessalonica.

By means of campaigns, children, their families and the community are informed about the risks brought on by exile. This project also encourages schooling and organizes recreational activities. On a case by case basis, Terre des hommes will repatriate children who have been placed in Greek institutions and helps them return to their families as well as ease their social reinsertion back into society.

Name : ECPAT International
Implementing partner in Bulgaria: Neglected Children Society, ECPAT Bulgaria Affiliate Group

Link : www.ecpat.net

Description :

The organization follows the goals of ECPAT International as a part of this global network of organizations and individuals working together to eliminate child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children for sexual purposes. It seeks to encourage the world community to ensure that children everywhere enjoy their fundamental rights free and secure from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation.

ECPAT works to build collaboration among local civil society actors and the broader child rights community to form a global social movement for protection of children from sexual exploitation. Its membership reflects the richness and diversity of experience, knowledge and perspectives that arise from working in widely different contexts.

ECPAT International in cooperation with the members in the country is monitoring the implementation of the commitments to combat the sexual exploitation of children as a follow up to the III World Congress and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.
ECPAT groups are involved in implementation of various initiatives to protect children at local levels, while the ECPAT International Secretariat provides technical support and information, and holds workshops and other educational forums to extend and exchange knowledge among groups in different countries. It also represents and advocates on key issues at the international level on behalf of the network.

Name : Terre des hommes Delegation in Kosovo

Link : www.tdh.ch

Description :

Terre des hommes Delegation in Kosovo is a national branch of the Terre des hommes - Child Relief Foundation with Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland
In Kosovo, Terre des homes (Tdh) is the sole NGO committed to the development of a program, moreover a very important one, in the sector of Juvenile Justice.

Terre des hommes pursues two essential aims; one is for a campaign of prevention directed at children at risk, to attempt to stem violence and delinquency. The other aim is to train people in the legal system up to the international standards of law for minors.
This activity encourages setting up alternative measures to detention, e.g. in the form of community service, which is well adapted to institutions faced with lack of resources.

Terre des hommes has planned the continuation of its activities in the sector of Juvenile Law until 2009, in particular by improving our methods of support to those institutions in charge of the problems, confronted as they are with a bitter shortage of means, both human and material. The Province of Kosovo will then have, hopefully, structures which will function autonomously, even if the present context makes each achievement hard to uphold.

Name : Nobody’s Children Foundation

Link : www.fdn.pl

Description :

The Nobody’s Children Foundation is a non-governmental non-profit organization working toward the goals of protecting children from abuse and providing help for abused children, their families, and their caregivers.

The facilities run by the Foundation offer psychological, medical, and legal help to victims of abuse and their caregivers. They act for the improvement of the situation of children participating in legal procedures as witnesses. They run preventive activities to reduce threats to children on the Internet. They organize specialized training programmes addressing the problem of child abuse for various groups of professionals and for interdisciplinary teams. The Foundation runs a programme for unaccompanied foreign children and victims of trafficking. They conduct research and analyses to expand the knowledge about the problem of child abuse and to provide basis for our activities.

Nobody's Children Foundation is the leading NGO on the project “Childhood without abuse - towards a better child protection system in Eastern Europe” (www.canee.net).The project concerns a collaborative initiative of NGO's in 7 East European countries over a five year period (2005 - 2009) to raise awareness and expertise in relation to the problem of child abuse and neglect (CAN) in those countries. In cooperation with coordinators from each of the participating countries - Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine there are created opportunities to enhance understanding and standard of prevention and intervention across the seven countries.

Taking into consideration the above "regional specificity" the project aims to:

• develop regional standards and solution in the field of CAN

• train professionals dealing with CAN and support them through networking, good practices, contact with international experts

• work out more effective system of a direct assistance for abused children in the region by raising social awareness on the problem of child abuse.

Name : Terre des hommes – Regional Project for Child Protection

Link : www.tdh-childprotection.org

Description :

In January 2006, Terre des hommes (Tdh) decided to open the offices of the Regional Child Protection Project in Budapest, Hungary. With a geographically central position, the Regional Project covers Albania, Kosovo, Moldova and Romania.
The aim of this project is to improve the child protection policies in these four countries of intervention by the year 2009 by delivering efficient and coordinated services that meet Western European legal and social standards.

The Regional Project is based on the two areas of expertise that the Foundation has gained during its 15 years in South Eastern Europe: the fight against child trafficking and the risks of migration, the strengthening of the legal system for minors, and the protection.

In order to improve child protection in the region, two key areas have been identified. The first is to strengthen the capacity of the Tdh delegations and its local partners in collecting and analysing the information emanating from our current projects. The second is to build up advocacy cases on topics of child protection that are still relatively unknown (for example, an investigation into the flow of child traffic between South Eastern Europe and Western Europe).