“Children who are sexually exploited need access to a range of response services, which are accessible, non-discriminatory, appropriate and effective.
These may include:
 basic services, such as safe spaces, food, temporary shelter, clothing, healthcare and access to education;
 support through legal proceedings;
 being listened to and believed; and
 challenging and changing harmful, stigmatizing norms and attitudes in families and communities.
Response services need to reduce the risks of re-victimisation. Children who have been sexually exploited are more vulnerable to abuse and exploitation in the future. The risk factors are complex, but include both individual and community perceptions that blame and stigmatise victims of sexual exploitation. In many/most cases, factors such as poverty, lack of access to education and paid work, that made children vulnerable to exploitation in the first instance, continue to operate. Response services should address both the attitudes and norms and structural risk factors.”
Excerpts from ‘Oak Foundation Child Abuse Programme Strategy 2012 – 2016, revised
2014’
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In 2008 Oak Foundation began a partnership with the University of Highlands and Islands, Scotland
(UHI) with the aim to develop a learning hub for recovery and reintegration policy and practice of child victims of sexual exploitation. The plan was to develop knowledge transfer opportunities, convenings and events to further learning in the field of recovery and reintegration of child victims of sexual exploitation.
The UHI Learning Hub, supported by an Oak Fellow, was established at UHI in response to the conclusions and recommendations of an Oak commissioned report (the Recovery and Reintegration of Children from the Effects of Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking Report , authored by the late Professor Stewart Asquith and by Elspeth Turner) and the conclusions of an expert group convened to validate their conclusions.
 a community of practitioners and researchers connected online;
 establishment of the ‘Child Recovery and Reintegration Network’ website
( http://www.childrecovery.info/ );
 initiation of the Practice Bank;
 position papers on knowledge transfer priorities;
 delivery of online seminars and workshops; and
 development of the Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit.
In 2013 an external evaluation was commissioned to “… help inform Oak Foundation’s future decisions about whether or not to continue to fund [this] work in the future.” A desk review of the outputs of the project was undertaken alongside stakeholder interviews and a review of web based resources in the field.
The review found that the Learning Hub achieved many of its objectives, though more remained to be done to implement the original 2008 Asquith Report. Particular strengths of the project include the establishing of the ‘Child Recovery and Reintegration Network’ website
(http://www.childrecovery.info/) populating it with relevant materials and initiating a series of online seminars and workshops. The evaluation document may be requested from Oak Foundation.
States Parties shall take all appropriate measures to promote physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of a child victim of: any form of neglect, exploitation, or abuse; torture or any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; or armed conflicts. Such recovery and reintegration shall take place in an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child.
Article 39, Convention on the Rights of the Child
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Building on the recommendations from the external evaluation of the Learning Hub at the University of the Highlands and Islands, and considering that UHI has completed its work in piloting this hub,
Oak Foundation has decided to open this call for proposals to pursue the development of this project over the next three years.
Applicants are invited to submit concise concept papers (maximum 4 pages) to Mikaila Leonardi,
Programme Assistant, Child Abuse Programme ( Mikaila.Leonardi@oakfnd.ch
) by 1 st August 2014. An amount of up to USD 300’000 over three years will be allocated for the next phase of work if matching funds can be secured. Please outline a plan to take this work forward including the following:
knowledge of the content area;
experience in managing learning hubs – interactive learning spaces;
credibility and convening power among key actors in the field; and
ability to work across different contexts.
a creative vision for contributing to learning in this field with an aim to improve practice and policy;
ideas for working with or alongside, supplementing or tapping into, existing initiatives to share learning on recovery and reintegration of child victims of sexual exploitation;
of relevance to both small NGOs, who do not have the training, research, and monitoring and evaluation capacity, as well as to large NGOs, governments and policymakers;
ability to bring together a wide range of stakeholders; and
plans for promoting on-line user interaction.
clearly outline the proposed scope of the project, including where it would be located, how many regions would be reached and how the work would be taken forward;
ideas on how to build on what already is achieved by UHI Learning Hub and how further maintain/ improve the website
plans to support intra-regional and inter-regional exchange, whether virtual, in person, or both;
your opinion on whether the focus will be solely on sexual exploitation or broader and why;
a clear set of deliverables; and
a draft timetable for implementation.
personnel requirements and levels of expertise;
governance; and
a proposed budget, including existing and potential co-funding.
Please note that Oak Foundation is a co-funding organization and welcomes co-funding. Costs incurred for the development of proposals are not subject to reimbursement by Oak
Foundation.
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Oak Foundation will appoint a selection committee comprised of three experts to review the concept papers in the beginning of August. They will select a maximum of 3 agencies who, based on their concepts, will be requested to complete an Oak Foundation application form by the end of August.
After further review of these applications, one agency will be chosen to submit a final application in
September to Oak Foundation.
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