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Quality and services organisation

In Sierra Leone there isn’t a transfusion service coordinated at a central level; this project, through the building and the beginning of a National Transfusion Centre (CNT) in Freetown will be the starting point to empower this service at national level. Sustainable development objectives are: • The increase of health and of wellbeing; • Availability of quality training; • Reduction of inequalities Synergia will carry out the monitoring activities of the project.

General objective of the project is to foster the access to health services with a better possibility of assistance for citizenship of South Sudan, also with the aim of prevent migration from the Country itself and to increase life conditions of internal displaced people. The specific objective is to increase and improve some services of the Comboni Wau Hospital, which are considered as priority by Local Health Authorities: general hospital services, child and mother health services, maintenance. Sustainable development objectives are: • The increase of health and of wellbeing; • Availability of quality training; • Reduction of inequalities. Synergia will carry out the monitoring activities of the project

Data on the health status of the population has revealed that Somalia is one of the country with the worst situation in the world. The most affected group is that of children, whose access to hospitals and medical treatments is very heterogeneous. The situation is critical also for another group, that of mentally ill people, due to the persistent presence of civil wars and instability that has affected the country for a long time. The condition of these individuals is even worsen by the traditional local culture that supports the discrimination and social isolation of mentally ill people. Therefore, the issue of mental health in this territory is rarely addressed. Given the peculiar situation of Somaliland, the project aims at supporting the promotion of equality and accessibility in the national healthcare system and at improving the wellbeing of the population. In particular, the project is addressed to two sectors of the healthcare system, that is the paediatric department and the mental health sector.

In the past project “Protecting children in child protection systems – Daphne 2009-2011” aimed at the empowerment of social care providers operating in IT, RO, BG, in favor of children living in residential care, with special focus on inappropriate placement (secondary victimization) it was demonstrated that child protection systems are dominated by coercive processes, which produce a high risk for children and adolescents to experience high levels of violence between peers. The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children (ENOC 2011), in a survey on 39 members, reports that in many European institutional care centers, in spite of the presence of the explicit policy prohibiting all violent punishment, some interviewees said “a certain amount of violence can be deemed necessary in order to keep staff and other children safe, and separation from the group or isolation is still allowed as a sanction in many countries. The involvement in bullying leads to psychological problems in adolescence and in adulthood (e.g. depression for the victim; antisocial behavior and substance abuse for the bully, over and above pre-existing symptoms and genetic, familial or social risk factors for these disorders - see Ttofi et al., 2011). The project intends to Implement a Specific Program (BIC) to prevent and combat bullying in residential care settings, easily scalable up, to improve peer relations and make residential care settings more positive and safer places for children; to reduce existing bullying, by achieving better peer relations in residential care settings. The General Objective is to contribute to preventing and combating bullying in residential care settings through children empowerment and by encouraging greater collaboration between peers in 5 Countries (IT, BG, RO, GR, FR). The Specific Objective is to implement the anti-bullying BIC program in residential care settings in order to make those places safer. Detailed goals are: reducing existing bullying, preventing its development, achieving better peer relations. BIC, based on a preliminary field research as well as on existing good practices, will be founded on three pillars:

1. Standardization and high customization of the service provided: definition of a sound methodology for easy tailoring of the anti-bullying BIC program for all kind of alternative care settings.
• 2. Experiencing a non-violent environment by the care staff: improvement of skills and deeper understanding of the advantages of a non-coercive approach in managing concrete bullying situations.
• 3. Empowerment of children in alternative care with the intention of enhancing the internal self-help in peers interaction.