Child participation, Eswatini

Our Work

The transformational development programmes implemented by WVE include the following:

 

  • Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)

Every child deserves and has a right to use safe water, access sanitation and live in a clean environment. The WASH Technical Programme ensures improved and equitable access to potable/safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene facilities for households and vulnerable groups, and also ensures capacity building for behaviour change.

  • Livelihood

To break the cycle of poverty for the most vulnerable by strengthening families’ capacity to provide well for vulnerable children. This is done through provision of farming inputs to producers, environmental awareness, promoting employment through agricultural business, adolescent programmes, non-agribusiness enterprises, as well as savings and lending groups.

  • Health, Nutrition & HIV

To improve health status of vulnerable children, mothers, including young women and adolescents, and men. Programming focuses on access to age appropriate, comprehensive decision-making information on sexuality, life skills and health services to enable behaviour change, increasing utilisation of health services, as well as promoting self-determination. To improve Nutritional Status of Pregnant and Lactating Mothers, and children, the technical programme provides Nutritious Meals, therapeutic and supplementary foods, HIV prevention interventions to adolescent girls and young women, as well as provision of visibility material for community healthcare workers (sun hats, umbrellas, t-shirts, etc).

  • Child Protection, Advocacy & Spiritual Nurture

To attend to child rights violations, lack of essential social services like birth registration, and a conducive learning environment, child protection services, and address challenges facing children, like poor spiritual formation, gender inequality and lack of inclusion of children with disabilities in programmes.

 

  • Humanitarian & Emergency Affairs (HEA)/ Disaster Management

To ensure vulnerable children and their families are protected from harm during emergencies and can access humanitarian assistance in times of conflict and disaster. WVE also adopts a comprehensive approach to build capacity against disaster risk reduction.