Programmes

Health and Nutrition

JCM works with the health community structures such as the Neighbourhood Health Committees (NHCs) and Safe Motherhood Action Groups (SMAGs) among others and build their capacity to implement health and nutrition, water and sanitation programs. Some of the approaches/models used in the programming and implementation includes: Positive Deviance Hearth, time and targeted counselling (ttC), Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN); Infant Young Child Feeding (IYFC); Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) and Home Testing and Counseling (HTC) of HIV.

Empowerment and Agricultural Livelihood

JCM promote the use climate-resilient agricultural practices such as conservation farming and use of organic fertilizer to sustainably improve the food security including nutrition sensitive crop such as biofortified orange maize and orange sweet potatoes. At the centre of this is skills development of target group in production and management of small livestock and nutritious/cash crops with linkages to markets. The Self-help Group (SHG) Concept is another key approach used to empower and improve the livelihood of vulnerable population especially women through village savings groups, expansion of income generating activities, capacity building in entrepreneurship skills and mentorship, and building of linkages with the private sector.

Awareness and Advocacy

Awareness and advocacy campaign on socio-economic issues that affects the vulnerable population are raised through community mobilization and awareness campaigns. JCM influence policy implementation and change by being a member of the District AIDS Task Force (DATF), District Child Labour Committees, District Nutrition Coordinating Committee (DNCC), District Child Protection Committee and National Child Labour Steering Committee among others.

Child Labour/Protection

JCM uses international protocol and standards of the ILO in combating child labour through prevention, protection and rehabilitation strategies. Under prevention, children at risk are empowered with life skills and mentored. Under protection strategies, children are directly withdrawn from child labour and re-integrated back into formal school or empowered with vocational skills. The protection strategy also involves providing protective gear and training to children above the minimum age of employment. With rehabilitation psychosocial care/support and economic/livelihood empowerment is provided to household of children protected and prevented. Children separated or at risk of separation from their household are also targeted. Those who are separated brought in transit houses and schools run by JCM before they are re-integrated into school and households where they ran away. Those are risk of separation, psychosocial support and livelihood empowerment is provided.