AAC Impact (long-term):
Cambodian children/victims with communication difficulties have access to appropriate child protection and child rights information and have appropriate support (tools and skilled workforce) to discuss and report abuse.
Goal (4-year outcome):
To equip the Cambodian child protection sector, government staff with knowledge and resources to competently include children with communication difficulties or nonverbal communicators within their reporting and responding systems (and protect and intervene in these children from abuse).
To integrate picture-based into the safeguarding policy, safeguarding code of conduct, and form of consent.
To consult with MoSVY to provide technical input and use the AAC tool to support victims of sexual abuse, exploitation, and human trafficking through interviews and reports.
Objectives:
1. Develop contextually relevant, inclusive communication tools to enable reporting and discussion of child protection-related topics for all children (including children who do not use speech or literacy to communicate).
2. Strengthen the capacity of the key child protection workforce, government counterpart, through training and coaching to increase their skills in designing child protection information and programs to be inclusive of children with different communication abilities
3. Promote the integration of the reporting tool resources, skills, and training within Cambodia's existing child protection systems
