Child Protection Portfolio

CINI is guided by its mission to ensure that children and adolescents achieve their rights to health, nutrition, education, protection and participation by making duty bearers and communities responsive to their wellbeing.

CINI’s Preventive Child Protection Model

In emphasising the importance of prevention before cure, CINI Method has formed the basis for crystalizing CINI’s child protection approach. Even in this sphere, prevention is prioritised over cure. In developing its own preventive model, CINI has adapted the well-established preventive health model to the realm of child protection. Its preventive child protection model has been designed over the pyramid structure characterising preventive health. The child protection prevention pyramid is formed of three logically interlinked levels.

Programmatic preventive measures have been accordingly recognized at primary, secondary and tertiary levels based on the level of vulnerability affecting the child.

The CINI Method’s Preventive Child Protection Model emphasises that the majority of the child population is actually located and should safely remain on the wider bottom rung, where the risk of child vulnerability is lowest and responses can be widespread through informal, existing social structures and government systems. Vulnerabilities increase in intensity as one moves up the pyramid model, where responses need to become progressively more specialised, treatment more targeted and investments, consequently, higher.

Moving from primary and secondary up to tertiary prevention levels implies that responses are less available at the community-level and need to be found also in specialised centres, often available in larger (urban) centres away from the communities where children live. Most prevention work to keep children protected need to continue and intensify at the level of the community where parents, families and other established safety net mechanisms can ensure that children are cared for, in a way to avoid, as much as possible, that harm is done to children and care is required to restore their wellbeing afterward.

In building Child Friendly Systems, the CINI approach aims at influencing the child protection policy framework provided by the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA), Mission Vatsalya and other related legislation and SOPs within the Indian context.

Rescued and prevented victimisation of 15201 children through CINI partnered 4 Childline and 2 Railway Childline services in west Bengal.

Restored 6040 children in families and alternative care arrangements from CINI run 2 Children’s Home for Boys and Girls in West Bengal and 2 NGO run Children’s Home in Jharkhand.

2540 children received education, protection, health and nutrition support through CINI’s 3 Open Shelters for Boys and Girls in West Bengal.

Legal Identity and Social Entitlements of 32000 street connected children ensured.

CINI is a member of 33 state, national and international level child rights network.

Strengthened 4473 community-based child protection committees in Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Trained 21262 stakeholders within the Juvenile Justice framework, members of Central Armed Forces and Integrated Child Protection Scheme in West Bengal and Jharkhand