Protection

We ensure the access to and the exercise of ones rights in conditions of fairness, security and dignity.

COOPI Suisse participates in the implementation of programs to protect human rights by focusing on vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents, women, the elderly, indigenous people, people with disabilities, people with AIDS, refugees and displaced people.

We provide psychosocial services and ensure a multisectoral response, always putting the individual at the center of our interventions. In particular, we guarantee psychosocial support to survivors from gender-based violence and to children associated with armed groups, we promote access to food assistance and support opportunities for discriminated groups, we mitigate the exposure to new threats. In response to the increase of socio-political and environmental crises, we provide protection to the many displaced people and refugees in the areas in which we operate, providing safe shelters, psycho-social, hygiene and sanitation services, guaranteeing access to safe food and water.

To reestablish community mechanisms for the prevention and elimination of violations, we support community mobilization, encouraging the participation of the most vulnerable groups. In addition, we support the empowerment of discriminated groups providing political, economic and social tools to improve their living conditions and to recognise the citizens’ status of equal rights.

Finally, COOPI Suisse also supports the protection of indigenous people, promoting the development of their identity and improving access to basic services, especially in education and health sectors.

Active projects in the protection sector

Kitchen stoves – safe and with low environmental impact

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa with around 110 million inhabitants. Additionally, there is an increase in the average population of around…

...

22 Jun 2020

Cameroon

Everyone back to school!

We operate in the far North region of Cameroon. It is an area seriously affected by the crisis in the Lake Chad basin, which also…

...

23 Apr 2020

Ethiopia

Helping migrants in Ethiopia

Ethiopia is one of the African countries most affected by migrating populations. In Ethiopia, many young people depart for non-African states (to the Gulf and…

...

22 Jan 2020

Niger

Still hungry: malnutrition in Niger

COOPI Suisse’s project against child malnutrition in Niger has concluded.   It is estimated that over 8 million children under the age of five require…

...

Chad

We help to help in Chad

  The Chadian capital N’Djamena has become the destination for many children originating from rural areas, all at risk of being trafficked or other irregular violations of…

...

11 Jan 2020

Central African Republic

Rehabilitation of the primary school in Ngaoundaye, CAR

  The Central African Republic continues to be subjected to the weakness of its economic and social context, to accessibility problems and to its fragile…

...

7 Jan 2020