What we do

Child Protection Services:

This program offers comprehensive support and intervention for at-risk children, including those impacted by abuse, neglect, exploitation, and gender-based violence such as child marriage and female genital mutilation. CSLO establishes safe spaces in IDP camps and communities, provides counseling, legal aid, and family reunification services, and conducts awareness campaigns to prevent harm. For instance, in areas like Dongola and Kassala, CSLO coordinates with local authorities to identify and protect children in high-risk environments, incorporating psychosocial support to help them cope with trauma from conflicts or displacement.
Implementation Strategies: Community-based monitoring systems involve training local leaders and families to recognize and report risks. Partnerships with organizations like UNFPA and IOM enhance data collection and response coordination.
Outcomes: Reduced incidents of exploitation through education and intervention, with thousands of children supported annually, leading to enhanced community awareness and stronger child rights advocacy.

Expanded Focus Areas:

Poverty-Affected Children: Targeting families in economic distress through nutrition and education support to break cycles of deprivation.
Refugees and IDPs: Providing specialized services in camps like those in Dongola or Kassala, including psychosocial care and emergency aid to aid integration and recovery.
Children Affected by Violence and Discrimination: Interventions for those facing abuse, child labor, or gender-based harm, with awareness campaigns to foster protective environments.

Health and Nutrition:

This program delivers essential healthcare services and nutrition support to promote children’s physical and mental well-being, addressing issues like malnutrition, disease outbreaks, and mental health challenges in crisis settings. CSLO provides vaccinations, nutritional supplements, medical check-ups, and mental health counseling, particularly for children in IDP camps or affected by violence. For example, in Kassala and Northern State, CSLO runs mobile clinics and nutrition education sessions for mothers, emphasizing preventive care to reduce child mortality and stunting.

Implementation Strategies: Partnerships with health organizations for supply chain management and training community health workers to deliver services in remote areas with limited access.
Outcomes: Improved health metrics, such as reduced malnutrition rates and better immunization coverage, contributing to overall child resilience and long-term well-being.

Emergency Response:

CSLO rapidly mobilizes resources for children in crises, including natural disasters, conflicts, and humanitarian emergencies, providing immediate aid like food, shelter, clean water, and psychosocial support. In Sudan’s volatile regions, such as Darfur or Kassala, the program includes rapid assessments (e.g., field surveys in Dongola covering health, education, nutrition, shelter, and protection) to deploy targeted interventions, ensuring children’s needs are prioritized during displacement or floods.
Implementation Strategies: Coordinated with entities like OCHA and local NGOs for efficient response, using agile methodologies to adapt to changing situations and integrate long-term recovery plans.
Outcomes: Timely support for thousands of affected children, leading to stabilized communities, reduced vulnerability, and enhanced preparedness for future crises.

Education Initiatives:

CSLO ensures access to quality education and vocational training, targeting children who have dropped out due to poverty, displacement, or conflict. The program includes setting up temporary learning centers in IDP camps, providing school supplies, teacher training, and vocational skills workshops (e.g., tailoring, agriculture, or digital literacy) to equip children for future employment. In rural and urban settings, CSLO addresses barriers like lack of infrastructure by offering mobile education units and scholarships for girls, promoting gender equality in education.
Implementation Strategies: Collaboration with government ministries and NGOs to integrate programs into national education frameworks, with a focus on inclusive curricula that incorporate life skills and peace education.
Outcomes: Increased school enrollment rates (e.g., from conflict-affected areas), higher retention through vocational pathways, and empowered children who contribute to their communities’ development.

Target Population:

CSLO’s target population encompasses vulnerable children across Sudan, with a deliberate focus on inclusivity to ensure equitable access to services. The organization prioritizes children living in poverty, refugees, those in IDP camps, or affected by violence, discrimination, and exploitation, recognizing the compounded risks in conflict zones. Efforts extend to both urban areas (e.g., Kassala city) and rural settings (e.g., remote villages in Northern State), where infrastructure gaps and security issues often hinder support. By collaborating with communities and governments, CSLO ensures no child is left behind, tailoring programs to address specific vulnerabilities such as gender disparities, disabilities, or ethnic discrimination.

What we care for

Awareness campaign on psychosocial support at the Martyr Ahmed Qasim Shelter Center.

Children Save Life Organization, in coordination with the Child Development Organization, has implemented an awareness campaign on psychosocial support at the Martyr Ahmed Qasim Shelter Center. The campaign has reached a large number of displaced women within the center, as part of efforts to provide psychological and social support for women. The campaign addressed (child marriage and female genital mutilation) highlighted issues of risk of children early marriage that girl mostly exposed to as under 18 years old, and female genital mutilation, which leads to numerous problems, including difficulties in natural childbirth, bleeding, and other issues. The beneficiaries expressed their understanding of the awareness campaign and they are enjoyed and accepted the activity with great enthusiasm.
We thank all participants in the activity.

A new future for exploited children

Child Save Life Organization has participated in Field Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment in Old Dongola covering all sectors (health, education, nutrition, shelter, and protection), a joint mission with UNFPA, IOM, CDF, Sudan Stronger, Sadaqat, Massaaedoon Charitable Durrat El Nile, SABA, and OCHA the mission lead.

Bringing dreams within reach for children

Child Save Life Organization has attended the Humanitarian Aid Commission Meeting for Discussion on how organizations will intervene in Old Dongola, led by OCHA to collect data. The second meeting has held on Wednesday, April 9, and operations to commence on April 13.

Our Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) System Background
Overview
Our Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) are part of everyday program management and are critical to the success of all SCLO’s program, including those operating in fragile contexts.
Without an effective MEAL system we would be unable to:
• track progress
• make adjustments
• discover unplanned effects of program
• judge the impact that we have made on the lives of those with whom we are working

A MEAL system also helps us to be accountable to our stakeholders through information sharing and developing a complaints or feedback mechanism which can help to guide programme implementation.

The (SCLO is a national non-governmental organization founded and registered since 1999 under the Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) Law, a child-focused organization that is one of the humanitarian aid actors responds to crises or conflicts affecting the populations and that is left a devastating impact on life and basic services efforts are made to help and support children and their families and vulnerable people and devoted to saving-lives and reviving suffering through child protection services, water, sanitation and hygiene and rural development programs, FS-livelihoods and peace-building, social cohesion and the defense of the rights of the child and dignity, privacy emergency shelter / non-food items response in Sudan.
As part of the process to systematize and enhance the quality of program in monitoring and evaluation process and deliverables, MEAL guideline has been developed and will utilizing in program implementation phases.
Key principles of MEAL in fragile contexts and population affected by conflict or natural disaster to consider the safety, dignity and rights of the people of concern; stakeholders, partners and communities is paramount and all services deliver have to align with whole humanitarian aid quality and accountability standards and principles such as the “Do No Harm, HAP, AGDM, Sphere, CHS,” principles will always take precedence over the desire for accountability and the collection of data. Data needs to be collected and stored in such a way that it can be accessed by parties.
SCLO is committed to regular monitoring and evaluation to ensure effective programme management and measure progress. This commitment is integral to SCLO’s vision and mission. SCLO monitors and evaluates itself and its programmes:
• to measure how SCLO is performing against its goals and principles, such as its stated aims to strengthen local capacity and partnerships, encourage community mobilization, provide holistic development opportunities and ensure sustainability;
• to monitor progress against the range of specific programme indicators and outputs agreed with the donor and/or host government;
• to base strategic policy decisions on relevant and timely information;
• to demonstrate SCLO’s commitment to international standards (e.g. the Red Cross/Red Crescent Code of Conduct and the Sphere project) and Millennium Development Goals (e.g. by tackling disease, malnutrition and infant mortality and by improving livelihoods);
• to strengthen the coordination of humanitarian interventions through promoting transparency and sharing information.
The MEAL system helps key groups (Senior Leadership Team Members; Programme managers, Finance Staffs, Project Focal Persons/Project Officers, Sector Specialists/Advisors and program staffs and affiliates) to assess performance at all levels of programming.
• To this end, all SCLO programme staff and managers must be committed to this ongoing process of monitoring and evaluation. Programme Managers/Officers bear the responsibility for ensuring the provision of:
• evaluation against organisational and project log-frames;
• weekly reports with key issues highlighted for follow-up;
• Monthly reports to monitor correct identification of target groups and the appropriateness of SCLO F’s input.
• Disaggregated information (gender, age, socio economic groups etc)
• Timely feedback to information users and share results with beneficiaries and other stakeholders.
• Adherence to the roles and responsibilities stipulated to each unit and departments
• Always budget for monitoring and evaluation including costs for staff, assessments, baselines, monitoring systems and evaluation.
• Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with SCLO as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that SCLO shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates or consultants.