Morocco Launches Initiative to Protect Vulnerable Street Children in Rabat

This initiative measures "the urgency of providing concrete and rapid interventions to children in vulnerable situations, mainly street children", who are most often exposed to all kinds of risks. This is why the National Observatory for Children’s Rights has worked on the development of a priority program. It consists of supporting all those involved in the protection of the rights of abandoned children living on the streets at the mercy of the elements and all kinds of dangers. The aim for ONDE is to help them, but above all to reveal their potential.

Since January 2019, ONDE has mobilized a team of experts who have carried out field work for an intervention strategy that takes into account good practices recorded at the national and international levels. Extensive consultations were then held with officials and actors at various levels of the city of Rabat. This is a crucial step that has made it possible not only to better diagnose and understand the situation of childhood, the available resources, but also to mobilize and motivate all the actors to make childhood a priority at the local and regional levels.

ONDE has chosen to adopt a sponsorship protocol, i.e. an integrated multi-service system, which allows for the establishment of a clear protection path at the city level. It includes all the interventions that should be automatically launched for the prevention, monitoring, treatment and reintegration of children in difficult situations.