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Oh, Chris BMX appreciate this Tier one Salute a recent report from a leading landlords association Shows that housing benefit tenants are being increasingly turned away from the private rental sector These tenants are viewed as a bigger risk because of the widening gap between market rents and the housing benefit Councils are prepared to pay Last year two-thirds of landlords with tenants claiming housing benefits experience rent areas Okay, Bo Hill and Ben Pinner are high court enforcement agents They travel all over the southeast of England recovering debts and repossessing homes Today they're in north London to carry out an eviction Which is Edmonton Green It's just slightly down market area. This isn't funny enough. This is where dad used to have a house That's what I mean The tenants a mother and daughter owe over six thousand pounds in unpaid rent We want Garrett Drive flat five Notice of eviction has been sent by the county court But the landlord escalated the case to the high court and the tenants must leave today Guessing they might be the landlord and the locksmith But this eviction is going to be straightforward. Okay That's what I like to hear. Good morning Good morning. Hello, Harry. We have keys yet. You're not communicating with us at all You didn't speak to us haven't turned up to any of the court cases So standard it's useful to be able to throw that back. Yes, we don't know why we're moving if you give us a few minutes Yes, we'd like to get the bloodshed and the shagging under control. I'm not sure if the home I haven't been inside to be honest. It's embarrassing. Okay. I leave it to you. Good luck. Thank you very much. Thank you Thanks one. Oh, it's a pram outside Which one is it? Five or six? I don't know my smile as I are When I'm not on the door, I'm only thinking of the Possibilities of what might occur. So I'm just going through the risk assessment People are increasingly aggressive, but my attitude on the doorstep is perfectly calm collected and just running through the scenarios that might follow Somebody in there in the door creaking If you open the door, please we from the court We know you're in there I'd like to think I'm talking to myself But I get this distinct impression there is someone there is his eyebrows done got the joints threaded With no one answering Ben decides to use the keys he's being given by the landlord's agent But there's a problem it appears the locks have been changed Do you want to open the door? All right, let bro come on in Hey, you can either open or I'm gonna break it down. Otherwise, I'll have to open it. Oh, okay We will break in if you don't open the door. Talk to us. Let's get negative As Paul heads downstairs Ben tries again to get somebody to answer the door Just so you know you have one hour to leave the property So you're currently 12 minutes into that So if you want to keep wasting it, that's your decision, but this isn't gonna change and we're not gonna go anywhere Minutes later the landlord's agent brings the locksmith upstairs The landlord's agent decides to call the tenant to see if he can get a response I'm coming from homelink landlord's office regarding your property. We're here with the enforcement officer. Are you home? Can you open the door? We'll just go for it. I'm obviously Locksmiths have to earn his money But as the locksmith starts to force the lock the agents are in for a surprise special What I went the full length to try to not get this in there. They got aluminium What they got to say I'm stuff Captain Americans shield was made out of Wolverine's claws The new locks are high security and can't be forced with a standard drill When they're not answering and they obviously come to the mindset that we're just go away That's really not the case. We're gonna be all right. Let's go get the Chain saw coming through that door whether you like it or not one way or the other Paul and Ben now have no option but to break down the door keep the door clear Kick clear the hallway Mission to carry on. Yeah I'm not impressed madam. That really wasn't necessary was it?  This is great Hello Sorry at the door like they just I'm not impressed madam that really wasn't necessary was it We are high-court enforcement This isn't gonna solve anything and you're running out of time rapidly madam. We're amical people We're not here to cause problems. We understand you don't want us here Well at the end of the day we have a job to do and we're trying to help you to help yourself get to the council Don't shoot This is not gonna make a scrapper difference madam I must inform you that any obstruction of us in this execution of this rip will result in your arrest by police Do you understand? It's simply to my job madam The agents might be inside. That's the daughter I'd but can they get the tenants out before tempers escalate? I see it bro elbow got smashed in the door, but can they get the time we're in Today The agents need to make the tenants understand that they must leave today We've got 45 minutes to get your personal effects together and to leave the flat The younger tenants won't speak to the agents so Ben Tries to reason with her mother We are amical people. I don't care. What do you want? We are here from the court to evict you You have 40 minutes to clear your item In only one case out of 100 is the tenant gonna be packed and ready to go the rest of the tenants will still have the head in The bucket of sand waiting for the knock with the actual eviction notice The younger tenant has a baby and is entitled to emergency accommodation from the council Ben wants her to understand what she needs to do next Obviously, you are aware of the county court judgments and that you were as evicted That you was asked to leave the premises because you failed to do so We have been instructed to attend today. I don't expect you to clear this whole flat Right here right now. You need to pack a bag with the essentials medications Identification clothing and anything to last you for the next few days We then take the risk which I've given you to the council They will I hope provides with emergency accommodation? Okay, if you need me, I'll be there. Well, they will I hope for guarantee Yeah, here. My name is Ben Where there are children involved it is a lot worse because they're vulnerable It is hard to hear times We just hope that they'll get the necessary help from the council The agents have been in the property for over an hour the tenants have finally begun to pack But as Paul and Ben start an infantry of the flat they're in for a shock It's Paradise How does it smell in there? Since they broke in I was It's not stored in those it's everything's just overdone The state of the place. It's absolutely cluttered to the roof If the landlord were to clear it out It would take a three-man team best part of the day to clear that out Ben wants to know how the family have got into such a serious situation You're not working at the moment Nights got off by who like the electricity So it is a short for when the benefits It appears that when the family moved in two years ago the tenants housing benefit covered any shortfall in the rent But after her benefits were capped six months ago. She fell into her rears That's why you've struggled to pay the rent I acknowledge The fact that because there's benefits kept this might be an ongoing situation one thing that's not occurred in this case Which is a common denominator in most of these cases is that they won't communicate with the agent So the agent and the landlord have tried to beat a bit of family, but they've just been cut off So they said communicated things couldn't be done Nearly an hour and a half after the agents arrived at the property the tenants are ready to leave Do you want me to give you hands? We got to go the family are now homeless What you do need to do speak to social services because you have a child that obliged to rehash it It will be up to the council to give them a bed for the night All into it went fairly smoothly Little bit of Archie barges Was the only way to get in But the door bars could have been avoided if they have just Communicated well they went from not talking to us at all to having a full-on conversation. So, you know we get there in the end Okay, she did sound American. I didn't even clock it and realize it until you just said it didn't in my head I played it back. I'm talking to somebody in the chat. Yeah Yeah, she's definitely Over 40,000 County court judgments were issued against businesses in England and Wales During the first six months of 2016 their average value now exceeds 3500 pounds and its small businesses who have been hardest hit The total value of County court judgments against businesses in the first half of 2016 was 149 million pounds W reader High court enforcement agents Dell Anglin and Brian O'Shaughnessy are in they got the gang back together That means me and something real negative about that north London with a rick to north London Okay, recover nearly seven thousand pounds owed by a garage to a dissatisfied customer Next job there is state Newington After the summer six thousand six hundred ninety eight pounds and seventy-nine pence Garages MOT's and repairs and stuff When the garage failed to pay the claimant escalated the case to the high court If the garage can't or won't pay today The agents have the right to seize goods to offset the debt Oh Coming out I'm doing Don't get through it. It's all dead in down there. Is it? Okay, cool. What's that you want? What number? How many people working there is it's a different people? What what other people Let people know you're not fear and nothing and I believed you would do it The writ is in the name of a company so the agents need to find out who's in charge Who's the governor who's the boss You've been trading under the name It's a new that's illegal new companies. Yeah, but you've been using the name though, and maybe still in some of the heads or whatever But it's changed that the man who says his name is Gary claimed that a new company have taken over and his uncle now runs He claim just don't look like no goddamn dare Gary. You are not a Gary brother Come on now and that a new company have taken over and his uncle now runs the business But the agents need proof So let's see some paperwork to that effect. Can I get some paper? Yeah If you have a company that is not trading You then issue an invoice from that company as far as I'm concerned you owe the money They need to show that that debt does not belong to that company Gary gets his uncle on the phone Hello Yeah, you've got these oh, you know, I'm counting court judges guys. Yeah, they're here. They want to enforce the writ And other guys got inside the garage Dang, what's his name sister is it? Is that her? Yeah? It seems that Gary has an idea what the debt is about She bought her car in it was broken down And it was leaking oil all over the road this that the other She gave one part of the engine in the turbo and it's because she couldn't afford it She's working blah blah blah that I don't understand how it's going this far and I still write it What's on is it cause right there on the ramp buff? It appears the claimants vehicle is still somewhere on the premises Dell puts the pressure on where to click money. Go ahead to get money, but I cost today Would you want to keep the car and give me seven grand? I Not there to be involved in the dispute I'm there on the command of the High Court rate of control Not fair is for somebody else to make that decision. We've come there to remove goods or to collect money With payment looking on lightly the agents only option could be to seize the car and return it to the claimant But there's a problem with the pistons Well, it's only not in the car. Oh The car's engine has been completely removed It's now clear to the agents why the amount on the writ is so high. Well, what she's done is she's gone for the full value of the vehicle Also, that's why so much You've been better at for it to buy a new card and try to fix that My uncle dealt with other customers and whatnot. I'm gonna keep it real with you she got over on y'all This is the case whatever y'all saying She took it there couldn't afford it did something something something that's got y'all for 7,000 Didn't she they're not happy with something even though if customer asked for a certain job and you give it to them They're not happy with it. What can you do? That's how it goes Gary claims that the car came in on a recovery vehicle The engine was removed to find out what was wrong and the claimant was told it was beyond repair But the claimant maintains that the garage took the engine out unnecessarily and wrote off her car Gary claims the damaged engine wasn't put back in as The car needed an entirely new one That's all that engine broken down in pieces so parts of that engine underneath here Once you put the car, though add an engine in it Not gonna lie, this is a sketchy mechanic one of them backyard red door mechanic shops This is this is a Yeah, I don't want to get a truck again and take it to somewhere and Though I don't know she was full ready the car funny funny She's funny. No, he working hard. She's funny. Look at this man knuckles. We damaged her car. How is that? That is that is a hard-working knuckle So I don't how she was full fun of a car that's damaged already Yeah, it's nothing in there. It's nothing in there. No, she won't say you can't she can't have the car I saw as if he's been using the car for his own enjoyment There's a clear dispute regarding works being carried out in the vehicle her vehicles there She was to collect it. She probably doesn't want it. She wants the value of the car back She's got seven thousand pound rich. She was paying. There's nothing to take there I'll take control of there's no assets there And so we can't pretty much do anything else but try and resolve over the phone or advise the claim Appropriately with no assets to seize and no offer of payment Brian and Dell have no choice but to walk away empty-handed The vehicles here The engines and pieces what can you say? I mean, it's I've never had something like this We are given no information about what the deaths about when we go there. There's no real way If he has no assets to make this debtor pay And that's always frustrating The agents have one last word for Gary.  You're gonna have to get it sorted out Otherwise, yeah, you've got no business of it. It's not up to me It's up to uncle and my cousin and whatnot because obviously they're running what business they're running from here You know, I'm just talking this way. Yeah, she's having a laugh Dell and Brian may be leaving empty-handed this time But in Paul and Steve's next case Grandma can you And then five months hopeless Commercial more than three million people across the UK are living in rented properties without the landlord's permission Three-quarters of these have been in the property for more than six months Recent research shows that only one in five requests by tenants to sublet are permitted by their landlord Nearly half of tenants who sublet they're probably do Property do so without their landlord High court enforcement agents Paul Bowhill and Steve Pinner are in West London to carry out another eviction It's a writ of possession The Hungarian tenant has rented the property for three years, but stopped paying rent six months ago He's now 9,000 pounds in arrears What's the name of the road in case I pass it Empire Road It's this one Notice of eviction was sent by the County Court, but the tenant ignored it Now the case has been escalated to the High Court and he must leave today What number are we looking for five and six fifty six The landlord's son Mr. Hirani and his uncle are waiting outside That's the key I bought from the agent The one with the yellow tag. All right. Okay, just you guys shouldn't be here.  Well, thanks very much City's out first. There's one key Which gets us in that one You can now do your fancy knock on that door Okay So my name is Paul Bowhill on the High Court enforcement agent. We have a repossession order this property Is that your name there? No, no, no, no, it's a person here No, it's not not here. Despite the man's claim that he isn't the tenant named on the High Court writ Paul and Steve are instructed to evict anyone living in the house You have one hour to get personal effects together and then arrange with the landlord to come back and clear the rest out We have to change the locks now All right, okay, just not today in the tomorrow because then one no, no, it's gotta be now within the hour by 9 o'clock 9 o'clock How do you think I'm in your house? They're trying to reason. He's talking about not today. We can't do it today tomorrow. Maybe It seems there's more than just the one tenant named on the writ living in the house Oh Ma'am, that's what you think Oh The house should have been vacated three weeks ago three weeks ago But you're still here today. Are you joking with us? We're gonna be outside I'm not joking with you My grandmother is very very sick. I'm sorry. I have no choice We my hands are tied It is really unfortunate. You get a whole list of excuses from tenants as to why they can't or shouldn't be evicted A lot of excuses revolves around the health status, which I'm sure is genuine So I'm not belittling that situation Despite the grandmother's illness the agents are duty-bound to enforce the writ and evict the whole family today Steve needs them to understand that they must seek help from the council This is the situation You have to nine o'clock to get personal effects your passport any medication closed for a few days What you would need to do You understand me so thank you. Can you explain it to everybody else?  We're excedrin Thera flu get get right Couple jars of tea, you know hit the road With the family not cooperating Steve reminds them why the eviction is happening one question who's paying the rent No, nobody is paying the rate for six months nine thousand pounds not paid Not me it seems that the tenant named on the writ has unlawfully sublet to the house They could well be paying the tenant Yeah We find on properties that we go to that the person who originally rented the property has sublet to other people They're paying them, but he is not paying the landlord So far we've seen four there's probably six people here There's probably more there's one downstairs room here one out of the back probably three bedrooms, and it's fully occupied The rent on this property is 1500 a month, but the landlord Has received no rent for six months, you know, this is Hungarian land road Everybody and this is Hungarian people's in the same problem No good no good man another member of the family arrives back home Yes, but your landlord isn't the man that owns the house the man that you're paying Obviously isn't paying the owner Whatever stuff getting finessed man Especially for that such a living environment. Oh, man. That's the worst type of person that they could do that to some Money you've paid he has taken shout out die rants For follow The woman has a letter from the court about the eviction And be wise guys Save that letter ma'am Because it's not because no no man, but you shouldn't be here They've already lost lots of money they don't want to lose any more So they go to the high courts and then they issue a rip for us to come The family finally seemed to have accepted the reality of the situation I knew let's go It does upset you unfortunately, it's a job and we have to step back from that I Don't think there's an easy way to get to get through it you just have to try and be as sympathetic towards them as you can and Make things as easy as possible for them It's been an hour and a half since the agents arrived and the eviction is complete It's real deep in here After months of trying to get the family out the owners finally have their house back Don't expect so many people living in one house lost some six months It's been very stressful. We try to evict these people out Obviously, they've played a game all the way It's just the same story people paying the wrong people Bottom line is this the landlord is 11,000 pounds ish out of pocket, and I don't think that's fair Two people got finessed the middle man was putting their work unfortunately It will be up to the council to try and find them emergency accommodation for the night Some people that's young Recent government Figures reveal that homelessness has grown in the UK by more than a third in the last five years and has nearly doubled in London The figures are rising twice as fast among ethnic minority communities with 20,000 families evicted last year The number of homeless The number of homeless and black the number of homeless black and Asian Minority households has risen by over 20% in the past three years It's not like a project right here For a housing estate High court enforcement agents Del Anglin and Brian O'Shaughnessy are in north London with a writ to recover nearly 12,000 pounds in unpaid rent We're here for some of 11,992 pounds and 19 pence The debtors signed as guarantor on a tenancy agreement for her sister But her sister didn't pay her rent for a whole year And now the landlord has pursued the debtor through the courts for the money If the debtor can't or won't pay then we'll take it away The agents can take away personal possessions to offset the debt I'm here with a high court rear my name is Brian I can't discuss it with you It's not in your name Not really these formalities Maybe your mom can enlighten us. Do I get a telephone number? I can recall. No from thank you Thank you What does one do she work? What does she work? She says you're lucky. Yeah Okay Sorry While Brian tries to contact the defendant again Del enters the flat to talk to her son Can we just skip the politics Can we just skip the formalities that is not the same word Not the same. I see you tried it, but I mean But almost got past me my eyes on pretty in the slide. We got a lot of sunshine It's always important for an enforcement agent to get inside a property then you can see with your own eyes How they're living That's really what they've got what they haven't got so you can deduce how much they can pay Realistic house Are they older than you He know anything about it He's less active than you You say mom's a care worker It would help if we can speak to mom What time she normally finish that We're gonna take a look about at the man up with the debtor at work You're done Ain't nothing there the agents look around the flat for any assets they could seize But it becomes immediately clear that the family own nothing of any value Everybody on public transport here.  That's tough. It's tough. I know I'm poor. You don't got to remind me sir Okay, it's a tiny old Various There is nothing that's gonna remotely cover how do we know what we're looking to collect today really is a case of leaving a letter Come to some sort of future payment arrangement according to our financial circumstances. There's nothing there to be moved Oh here she go, but then the defendant arrives home early Hello, hello, I'm here. We're high court enforcement agents The reason for our visit today your sister was renting. Okay, and there was 12 months rent outstanding The debtor's sister the tenants who built up the 12,000 pounds She here to let's get negative in renter rears also arrives Is this is this her? This is the hello. Okay. My sister. She said, you know, they need a reference Give my name. I'm not saying I'm paying for her. Well, I think I say I'm you know I have reference. I leave this address. She's my sister. Well, you signed paperwork as a guarantor not reference If you didn't sign as a guarantor the land see how quickly the sister got up out of there Lord would not give another property.  It means that your sister Should have made payments on her end. You've guaranteed that you would pay the money in the event that she can't It's up between you they need to find 11,000 pounds 992 base a lot of money The debtor's sister is a refugee from Somalia. Oh, yeah, it's over with After a family tragedy, she fled to England with her three young children She was evicted when she fell behind with her rent The world what the land what the guys what the landlord's chosen to do he's chased you Here because you were the guarantor the debtor's son explains the situation to his mother Oh But where we go and get that money so we can't we can't debate that money so we can't do them At the end of the day, I have to look at the ability you got to go here continue that little paperwork for DCBL Let the claimant know that it ain't happening today To pay and what they can afford to pay that sustainable over a period of time Without it causing for five hours or more and too much of an impact on their family It's clear to the agents that the family has a limited income But they must try to recover as much of the debt as possible If your mum's got savings or something she might go for some of those savings to reduce in this debt and we couldn't reach an arrangement I've done it for you to have 12,000 pounds. I've done it for you to have it Yeah, but you need to pay a significant amount towards it Can you find 3,000 pounds? I've got 3,000 The bill is just under 12 Okay It seems that the family can't even raise the reduced No, man, sister's refugee. She signed some paperwork. She didn't even fully understand Y'all walking in there second hand Everything everywhere. It's just just y'all gotta Continue with y'all little papers Y'all gotta go ahead get up out of there, man. Y'all ain't getting that the amount that the agents have asked for But as their duty bound to get the case resolved Will the debtor be able to save her family's few possessions? No, but anyway, we already know We're in between money The debtor acted as a guarantor debtor. Can you find 3,000? Okay Now with the risk of losing everything the debtor's son tries to reason with his mother I Somebody's man, you realize that people don't even see hope they can't even see Hope they have no hope in their whole future Let's say down the line. We will never have this money. We'll never be able to pay this it'll take years That means you plan on living like this the rest of the way It's clear the family can't raise 3,000 pounds So now the agents need to assess whether they'll be able to recover any of the 12,000 pounds at all No, if we're gonna try to help resolve the issue, let's start with what comes into the house. How much we're talking about? When her debtor's telling me the truth, you know having to give them the right degree of empathy and listen to them I can feed back to the claimant and say this is their situation They haven't got a pot to in However, they can pay something as opposed to nothing The agents have been in the flat for nearly 40 minutes With emotions running high they decide to offer the family a lifeline I don't want you guys to starve. Do you understand me? I mean, I'm happy to set a monthly arrangement 1,000 pounds a month. Can you can you can do a grand a month? Are you happy that yeah, yeah, yeah, we could have set an arrangement. Yeah They are not gonna keep up with this again But the debtor disagrees with her son that the family can afford the repayments We come to pay counting what I get now I'm counting what my sister get because my sister is his income supportive. We pay 500 pounds Better than thousand because he is there for thousand. It's heavy The fear of the hair care in the field I did get a sling in the girl. I know you're gonna make it job. No I'm not sitting below the jiffy. I don't have a goal. I should Of course, I'm a regular. I go to the Okay, you get your money. I need one of the high. I don't want you to know. I'm a regular I'll add the good or something. Be sure. Cool. I'm a little of a little I'm a nice one What about love? I'm not a blow. I'm not a lot of love. I'm not a lot of love You can't sell it, no. I can't sell it. I can't sell it. I can't sell it. I can't sell it. I can't sell it. I can't sell it. I can't sell it. Let's just step up to the plate, man. It ain't gonna hurt. All you're gonna do is default on payment, and then they're just gonna be back. If he don't keep up his, you know. Yeah. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. We're back. Please check. The family are in crisis. Bro, if I hit the trap, I'm gonna hit the street running. Brian decides to intervene. What I don't want to do is you two be up to say any further. £500 a month, I'm happy. We want to set something that's sustainable for you, and you should be able to do that. It's not reasonable. Brian calls the office to see whether the claimant will accept the family's offer to the family's offer of £500 a month. Hello. They've worked out all the finances, then comes out going to £500 a fine. Yeah, can you find a client and tell him £500 a month, starting 30 days from today? All right, bro. That's the same stuff. Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, that's the safe way to go, man. No job. No job. No job. No job. No job. No job. No job. No job. No job. That's why you wanted to pay the lower amount, right? But the whole family here, you can get together and resolve this, yeah?  Take care of your job soon, don't you? Yeah. We're managing it now. Definitely.  You'll never walk alone. Thank you very much. Hello. The office calls back with a response from the claimant. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Lovely boy. Okay, we've got the 500 for you. Absolutely. Man, if you win the lottery in the means, please remember that. We win the lottery. We leave in the country. Not before settling with me. I helped you out. No, absolutely before settling. I'm out of here. Mum, what I've done here, okay? What's called a control goods agreement. Basically, what this is is an agreement, so you and I, we don't take any of your stuff and you pay 500 for them. That's basically it, okay? What it does say, what it does allow us to do is if you don't stick to that agreement, we'll come back and regain it, change your premises with you. But I don't think I have that problem with you guys. You've got to pay it. You've got to keep in contact with me. Okay? Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You're welcome, yeah. Thank you. Mum. Thank you. Good luck, yeah? Okay. See you later. Any problems? Give us a call. Thank you. Okay, Mum. Bye-bye. But the debt is just the latest in a long line of family hardships. 500 is hard for me and hard for my sister. But we can do it. We can. I believe in you. 500. We know. Five I believe. Dude, what can we live? It's hard, you know. My sister, she got married.  So, somebody, now they're killing. So, what they're killing, she had a pregnant, and she had two children, but still, she's my small sister. God. I didn't know the family origin story was that. How? So, it's difficult to live. I'm sorry to hear that. See, I need to solve that, really. I think she's a good person. She's trying to support her family and they're struggling.


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Brush up on good grooming as well as the social graces, hair care and styling, complexion care and makeup. Boys, how to wear both uniform and civilian dress? Accepted social procedures. If only the general in World War II who was asked, what shall we call them? Could see them now. He said, their Marines call them Marines. It's all in keeping with the traditional Marine image of smart appearance and good grooming. It pays off during duty hours and after duty hours too. Marines are stationed all over the United States, wherever there are major Marine Corps installations, from the East Coast to the West. Off duty they take in all the activities in their area and travel when they're on leave. You'll find Molly in civilian clothes just about everywhere you go. Marines serve all over the world and there's just no feeling as exciting as stepping off a jet liner in a country you've never seen. Molly is always welcomed by her fellow Marines and within a few short days, she's as much at home in Japan as back in her own hometown. As she travels and works, Molly Marine soon becomes a well-informed, independent, capable woman in any environment. She may find herself in Germany, Italy, England, Panama, the Philippines, Vietnam. On independent duty, perhaps the only woman Marine in the area or as a member of a team of 100 or more women Marines. State-side or foreign duty, it's exciting. Molly's work wherever she is is varied, interesting, and gives her a chance to put all that training into practice. Pull her share of the load. Smile pretty. She performs a variety of clerical and secretarial duties. Gains the experience to be a top-notch administrator in any extensive organization. At work in the Marine Post Exchange, Commissary, Post Office, all jobs handled in many cases by Molly Marines. Living is good at home or abroad. And when it's time to chow down, as they say in the Corps, you'll find Molly right in there with the best of them. Maybe eating the special diet menu that's available. Okinawa is another duty station for the woman Marine, and as usual she's greeted by her fellow Marines. Often a friend she has served with at other locations. The Marine Corps is a small, closely knit team, and the feeling of closeness runs strong. The first thing Molly does when she moves on to a new station is to get squared away in her quarters. It'll be home for a year or two. In some cases she may live out in town, in a residence of her own choice. And then there's the briefing, so she'll know what to expect both on the base and off. Whatever special features her job might embrace. Be prepared, it's no everyday routine. Some of the jobs performed by Molly are quite different from the normal activities she might expect to find a woman in. For example, meteorology, or weathermen. Or is it weatherwoman? And then there's the executive secretary, perhaps to the commanding general himself. Being in the know, gaining experience that will make a secretary something special. Supply, inventory, having the right equipment always on hand when it's needed by the troops. A complex, exacting job, vital to an effective corps. Molly Marine gets the job done, has made herself a permanent part of the Marines. She's also made herself a permanent place in the hearts of many people around the world. Wherever she goes, she's a kind of an unofficial ambassador from the United States with a special kind of appeal for children. If there's any one place that Molly dearly loves to be stationed, it's Hawaii. And from the time she comes down the steps of her plane, she finds herself in one of the most exciting, enjoyable times of her life. And then there's always the interesting work, the chance to learn more and more about her specialty. Gaining the experience she needs to become a true expert in her field. Dispersing, budget control, pay records. They're all right there waiting for Molly to learn all about them. Then take over and run them. And always be out of the ordinary. The job she probably couldn't get in civilian life. Perhaps as an aircraft controller in a control tower. When Molly goes aboard the Sunken Arizona, now a memorial to those who died at Pearl Harbor in World War II, she knows deep down inside that she is performing a valuable service to her country, doing something worthwhile with her life. The Marine Corps has always been strong on tradition, and the women Marines have developed one of their own. An annual color ceremony on each anniversary of their formation. You'll find Molly and her sisters carrying out this during ceremony wherever they're stationed. And a 25th anniversary ball becomes their real occasion for celebration. The original World War II recruiting poster artwork is on display. The Marine Corps Commandant is on hand to present the symbolic red roses to the director of women Marines. The traditional birthday cake arrives, a highlight of every Marine anniversary ball. There's a brand new anniversary waltz competition to honor the occasion. It's a fun field of fair, and you can just bet that women Marines everywhere are having some kind of celebration also. Although it may not be quite as elaborate, the silver anniversary means a lot to Molly. So does the golden anniversary of the Marinette. World War I and the Marinette, World War II, Korea, the Berlin crisis, the Middle East crisis, Vietnam. And thoroughly modern Molly is always there, trained, ready to back up her fellow combat Marines and freedom to fight. It's a history to be proud of and a solid base for the future. Molly Marine. She's called herself a permanent place on the roles of the Marine Corps.


Hydiw, os ydych yn gweld rwy'n gweithio, ac mae'n gweithio yw gweithio ym mwy ffaith a'u ddweud o'n meddwl i'n gweithio. Mae'n gwneud am Ymysmyth Aimee. Mae ymysigio'n te ffraith i gyda'r meddwl gyda'r meddwl gyda'r meddwl Columbia. A oedden nhw'n credu i'r dweud am y peirwydau a'r ysgrifennu ar y gwir y dylau cymryd, ac yn dod yn ymdweud am ymddangos i'r gweithio cymryd. Mae'r ydych chi'n sylweddol yng Ngôl Llywodraeth a Llywodraeth, yng Ngôl Llywodraeth yng Ngôl Llywodraeth, ac yng ngôl Llywodraeth ar hyn am gwybodaeth gyda'r ysgredigau ym mwyaf. Mae'n cymryd â blynedd ar y cyfryd a'r cyfryd ar y cyfryd ar y Cyfryd Llywodraeth, yng ngôl Llywodraeth, a'r cyfryd ar y cyfryd Llywodraeth. Rydyn ni'n nhw'n gallu o'r hyn yn dŵr y bydd ym mhwysgaf ym mhwyng. Mae'n uwch i'ch bod nhw ym bedtime mwrwnaeth o brwrs ffordd Cymru yn awyr ac mae'r cyd-dyn nhw. Mae'r cyd-dyn nhw dywed yr aes ar gwrs rwyf ar gyfer amwr. Lywodraethau ei pethau, yn overflowu'r cyd-dyn nhw, yn ffordd cymddyntau'r cyd-dyn nhw'n cychweinwyr ar gyfer ar gael cyd-dyn nhw, viach yn cael emos, wrth hyn sy'n gychwyn llawer o mawr o'r cyd-dyn nhw wedi'i cyfrifiadau cair mwynhau hefyd. Felly mae'n meddwl i'w gweithio o'r gorfod o unrhyw o gweithio cyffredinol a eich tîm oedd yn seidio i gael eu gweithio eich dynod. Yn yw i'n meddwl ei wneud, dyfynbethedig eich parwydol i gael ei wneud, cael ei ddweud eich dynod yn diolethaf, a daf yn ychydig i ei wneud i ffriffydd sefydliadau llunafol fwrdd. Yr ydyn ni'n ymddangos y panel yw wedi'i gwinio ymddiadau a'r ysgrifennu cynghwyl a'r llunafol ym mwylu gyda'i gweithio, South Sudan. The second part of our event will be held in two breakout groups to further explore findings and reflections from the projects presented in these panel discussions. And then finally, the findings and recommendations from these discussions will be including a summary note that will be part of the overall global protection from events summary. So that's a bit of the overview. I'd now like to pass to my co-facilitator Davina to introduce herself. So over to you Davina. Okay, so before starting, I would first of all like to say there are sometimes my camera be on and off course my bandwidth is really unstable. So good morning everyone and welcome to this session and to my presentation. First of all, Permit me to thank the Almighty God and you all for coming here today. It is an honour to have the opportunity to address such a distinguished audience. So I'm going to, the team is going to share my screen for the PowerPoint presentation. Okay. So I am Davina Maloum, your second co-moderator for this session. I am the founder of Children for Peace. I am a disability practitioner, cartoonist, humanitarian, nuclear non-proliferation activist and international speaker and a student in AI and big data. So you can go to the next slide. Okay, so here I'm going to do a presentation of Children for Peace. So before presenting Children for Peace, I'm going to give a little context of political context in Africa. So basically it is characterised by an escalation of violence and insecurity perpetrated by terrorist groups like Boko Aham, Al Shabbat and the various affiliations of Al Qaeda, which are relatively well known, both regionally and globally. And Cameroon, my country is in the grip of multiple conflict in the East, in the North and also the anglophone crisis specifically in the North. So you can go to the next slide. Okay, basically Children for Peace is a girl-led movement created in 2015 after the first attack by Boko Aham and we are working across Cameroon and other countries in Africa for children's rights, gender, gender, equity, peace-building and to increase the number of children's participation in public policies. So basically before talking about our project, the various project we had, we mobilised children in complex cultural backgrounds and affected areas by war to define and implement action plans and several local and nationwide activities, among which we have awareness raising campaigns, realisation of documentaries on peace-building, children workshops and peace cartoons. Okay, so, as I said, we have some projects. Basically, we'll start with Silence the Gun. So Silence the Gun basically is an integrated citizen engagement project led by girls aiming to realise a conflict free Africa by engaging children and girls to mobilize all stakeholders, to recognise efforts on peace, children's and girls' rights and effect on socio-economic development. So the project aims to democratise and shape local governance and conflict management thereby unleaching grassroots approaches. Okay, here we can see that we have been engaging with children where we organise some sensitisation campaigns and each child is engaging to say they are standing up to silence the guns. Okay, so the DDR Tech, this is the Disarmament's Immobilisation and Reintegration Technology for Exercise Soldiers. So basically, Children for Peace has been working closely with the African Nation of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development to develop an application called the DDR Tech Disarmament's Immobilisation and Reintegration Technology for Exercise Soldiers. So, basically, the project aims to fight against the arwamel of children in armed groups by providing them with favourable socio-economic reintegration opportunities in civilian life. So basically, the project is still under development. Okay, so I'm going to conclude with this, with the African Pyraments for Girls. So the African Pyraments for Girls is an official forum for girls to look at the local and global problems and come up with their own solutions. So the aim of the project is to uniform youths about political processes and get them involved in their schools and communities. So basically, it would help them to, like, it would help in power children and specifically girls. So thank you all for your kind attention. Okay, so before passing to the panel discussion, we are going to do a quick poll to get a sense of how much people know about this topic. If you're so excited as I am, I invite each and everyone of you to click the link in the chat and answer the questions so you can go on. I get a sense that that is the final poll. I don't see the numbers changing. So it seems here that most people are somewhat confident in terms of community negotiations for access, but for many people, this is to a new area for them. We're now going to pass to the following question on the Menity poll, if that's all right. How confident are you with children's participation for projects related to access? How confident are you with children's participation for projects related to access? Okay, so the results are coming in. Thanks so much everyone for taking part. It seems to the majority this is actually a very new area for people in terms of child participation for projects related to access. There are some who are somewhat confident and 21 who are very confident. So great to have you on board. Okay, I think that's the final numbers here. So thanks again for taking part. So again, like I say, it seems that the majority, this is still a really new area for you. And that's great to have you here and hopefully in this space today we can learn a bit more around child participation in these processes. Right, we'll move on to the next part of our talk. And so here the idea is basically we're going to have a panel discussion. I'd like to introduce two of my colleagues from Save the Children for this part where we're going to explain in a bit more detail community negotiation. So we have with us Roberta Gadler. She is the Child Protection Technical Advisor from the Mali Country Office for Save the Children. A warm welcome to Roberta. And we have Fernanda Almaida. She is a researcher system for the Civil Military Unit from Save the Children International. A great welcome to you as well Fernanda. We're basically going to start up with a discussion with Roberta and with Fernanda. But just for context, I'm going to start off with a quick introduction around the situation in Mali just for those who maybe are not so associated with the situation. So since 2012, Mali's been facing an unprecedented and complex crisis where insecurity is adding to weak governance, high hunger rates, climate change and pre-existing vulnerabilities. And despite the peace and reconciliation agreement in 2015, insecurity is still growing in the north and the centre of the country and is now spreading to the southern parts of the country. Inter-community clashes have intensified in the area of the Mali-Bakina Faso Niger borders. And the complexity of this context is due to the multi-level conflict, including different kinds of armed actors and groups, including radical self-dispense groups, militias, organised community groups, state and international armed forces, various agendas and interests, and adding to this ethnic and historical composite relationships, including ties, rivalries among different groups. Save the Children in Mali has been engaging since 2019 with humanitarian agencies, communities and non-state armed actors to facilitate better humanitarian access and promote protection of children through the respect of international humanitarian law and human rights law. Before I pass to Fernanda, I'm just going to give a little bit of context to the work that we ourselves here in Colombia did with the team with Fernanda. So we were part of a study with Fernanda's team around community negotiation access to basic services that was done both in Colombia and also in South Sudan. So in the Colombia context, unfortunately, despite the peace accords in 2016 here in Colombia, we still see the impact of armed conflict to this day. I think it's important to say that we're not seeing one armed conflict, but multiple narratives of armed conflict that tend to affect some of the most marginalised and vulnerable communities here in Colombia. For the purpose of this study, we were focusing on the departments of Bale de Calca, Calca and Anínio, which are part of the coastal Pacific here in Colombia. And then we went to the border regions, including Arauca, where we were able to understand a bit of the dynamic that you see on the Venezuela-Colombia border, which has a double affectation, not just around conflict, but also of the Venezuela migration refugee crisis. So that's a little bit context on my end. I'd now like to pass over to Fernanda, who can provide a little bit more background around the results of the study that we did in December of last year. So over to you, Fernanda. Nice. Thanks for introducing the research, Amy. Thanks to having you all here. So I would just give a brief introduction again, and then I will go directly to the main findings. But this research was a joint effort with the Norwegian Refugee Council, and we aim to provide evidence and to better understand the choices that communities make and the techniques they employ to negotiate with armed doctors for improvements in their access and protection. And we try to determine what added value, if any, humanitarian actors may offer to community land negotiations, taking the case of Colombia and South Sudan. And we, after literature review and extensive research, a pre-desk research, we found that we would like to go to Colombia and South Sudan because of previous connections with the country offices as well and the situation of climate conflict and access there. So in the study, we used a mixed method approach with literature review, semi-structure interviews, focus group discussions and service. So we had three main indicators for this research. It was protection threats, community social fabric and community leverage. And in Colombia, as Amy mentioned, we visited four departments. And in South Sudan, we visited six different states. And we had, in the end, 141 research tools. I think we have a slide where we can just display the map of the locations where we visited and the total of tools. Yes, so in the part of the page, you can see South Sudan and in the top, you can see Colombia. And then regarding the results, we found, I will give you really quick, but you can, after, we can share more results. But we found high levels of perceived deprivation and unsafety in both places, but it varied based on personal experiences and the country. In Colombia, everyone reported lack of access, most commonly healthcare, education and job opportunities, access to watch services, electricity and internet, roads and other basic infrastructure was also highlighted, not least to guarantee food security. And the lack of access is often caused by lack of land rights and restriction and freedom of movement due to fear of violence. And most common threats were child and youth recruitment and extortion. And the presence of minds, kidnappings, disappearance and violence, killings and sexual violence were also occasionally mentioned. In South Sudan, 81% of respondents reported lack of access to resources, goods and services, because it was not safe. Education, food and healthcare were the most commonly mentioned resource, goods or services that they struggled to access. And the lack of access was mentioned as often caused by restricted freedom of movement due to threat of violence.  And a curiosity of these, we perceived violence in the communities is that men reported feeling less safe than women. And sometimes we don't expect that. We also found that social cohesion depends on the location and the demographics, where in general there was higher social cohesion in Colombia than in South Sudan. In both countries, younger participants were more willing to work collectively with their community and community leaders had greater trust for other community members. However, in South Sudan, participants were less likely to know their groups than those in Colombia. I, 30 seconds. I will talk short for the second one. But then also the capacity of the community varied a lot. And in both places, they had community committees in Colombia junta de acción comunal. In South Sudan, religious leaders were really important to negotiate. And when we asked about the presence of humanitarians there, most of them wanted humanitarians to be there to have a presence and to follow up with the negotiations. But the community itself and the community members, they already knew the armed groups in South Sudan less than in Colombia, but they knew how to negotiate with them for their access. Even though the lack of access was great, the capacity of negotiation was also good. So, yes, I would just give the floor to Amy again. Okay, perfect. Thanks so much, Fernanda. So, I'm conscious of time, but I know that it would be great for us if we could speak to Roberta thinking about this context that we have in Mali. So, bueno, again, Roberta, a very warm welcome to you and thanks so much for taking part. Roberta, one of the questions I wanted to ask is how we save the children supporting communities and children in negotiations for protection in the context of Mali. Thank you, Amy, and I hope you heard me well. So, thank you, everybody, to be here. So, as you introduced a little bit already the context and the work that Save the Children is doing in the last years with communities on one side and I'm not saying directly on the other side. So, one of the initiatives that we had that Save the Children had is the stop the war against children campaign that gave out the opportunity to engage directly with the community leaders and regions. Religious leaders and train them so that they develop their own action plans to promote social cohesion and child protection, of course, and access for children to basic services like education. So, one example of a result of this work is that the community and religious leaders, they took the initiative to dialogue and negotiate with some what we call the extremist armed groups to reopen, to allow to reopen. Some schools were closed due to insecurity in the center of Mali, so in Jene and Badiagara villages. In parallel, we have been working with children directly involving them in an initiative called Children and Youth Ambassadors for Peace. So, Save the Children supported children and youth led the organization on the school, Save School Declaration to develop a doc as the strategy and address messages to all the conflict stakeholders including the government, like the Minister of Defense and Security, the Prime Minister, and also some of the unknown state actors and sub-defense groups. So, children were really at the center of the awareness-raising activities on degree violations and on the Save School Declaration that was endorsed by Mali in 2018. And as a result, they had this engagement from some of these unknown state actors to commit to never occupy schools, to authorize humanitarian actors to implement conflict-sensitive educational programs, such as school monitoring committees without their presence, or letting them work on it without fear of retreat and retaliation. Thank you for the slide. And so, the unknown state actors committed also to train their own troop on the guidelines for promoting schools from military use during the conflict. And finally, as we were saying, Save the Children supports the community negotiation, also involving directly and discussing negotiating directly with some of the unknown state actors, particularly the groups who are a signatory of this agreement, a job risk agreement of 2015, and some of the sub-defense groups that are active in the center of Mali. So, we train them and we engage them in some workshops that they develop action plans and engagement on the international humanitarian law, the human rights respect, the respect of Paris principles and a sixth grade violation against children in conflict, of course. So, they pledge to release associated children to increase humanitarian access and to stop occupation of schools and kidnap and recruitment of children. So, that's a brief overview. Thank you. Now, thank you so much, Roberta. I think it's really interesting and it's so great to hear of an actual implementation based experience that you've had in Mali. Recognising that you've covered a huge number of stakeholders in this work, my following question really is, I imagine working with such a range of stakeholders, there's going to be some challenges and potential opportunities now. So, my question is, what are the main challenges and opportunities to continue to support communities in negotiating for their own protection in this Mali and context? Yes, of course, there are a lot of challenges, I would say, and the main are related to the actual situation, the political and the security situation. As you said, the conflict is spreading from the north and the center of the country to the south and the west. And that means that there is a restriction of the humanitarian access due to insecurity and possible attacks even targeting humanitarian staff. The nature of the conflict itself makes it challenging to work with the different actors. Of course, there is an overlap of the armed conflict to intercommunity tensions that are often also used and instrumentalised by some groups to promote their own agendas. And so it contrasts really the efforts to promote social cohesion. And so the engaging communities on negotiation can also have adverse effects and there is a need to be really careful to not put them in further risk. So, for example, there are some situations that we faced where we couldn't involve communities as a central focal point in reporting on grave violations of children's rights or other sensitive activities because it would expose them for the risk. So we also face a limited capacity to follow up on the action plans that the armed non-state actors signed because of course these are not compulsory. And so their implementation and to get evidence of the impact is not so easy. For us, we need to really keep this balance between our neutrality as a humanitarian actor and the capacity to denounce violations and to follow up on this engagement. So in terms of opportunities, we would see for sure that the systematic conflict analysis that we are doing with the communities allows us to have a better understanding of the conflict dynamic and to adapt our strategies according to the situation that is of course evolving and to find the better way to negotiate and to access to have acceptance and access to people of course and to children. So then for sure the central role of the community and religious leaders in promoting also the social cohesion and the child protection access of children to services is something that we would like to consider an opportunity and of course to strengthen. And finally I would just say that the child participation in the peace process is something really promising practices and so we are right now working with the child parliament of Mali involving them. They are leading actually an initiative to build a policy guidance tool to support the meaningful participation of children in the peace process in Mali. So that's really promising and I hope we will have the chance to tell you more in the future on that. Thank you very much. No, thank you so much, Roberta. I think that's so interesting and I wholeheartedly agree with what you said about child and youth led participation in peace processes here in Columbia I think we've seen the real power that young people can have in those peace processes in the importance of their presence. I just want to finish off with Fernanda before we pass over to Davina. Fernanda, listening to these examples that we have from Roberta and Mali. No, I think it's really a visual representation of the study in practice. No, and a bit more I imagine of some of the findings you mentioned earlier. So my question is from the findings of that study Fernanda and listening to what Roberta said in Mali. How do you think we can adapt our ways of working to participate and really support communities in some of these negotiations. I think all that we found in Colombia and South Sudan is really related to what Roberta just mentioned. Maybe she can present also some lessons learned from Mali where we can implement in Colombia and South Sudan and hopefully in other places. But we got the feeling and the evidence and the data from these research saying that people are lacking access. They have knowledge on how to negotiate. Of course, there are some protection issues and risks and there's also a lot of contextual analysis needed. And as we've seen in the beginning of this event, humanitarian access is not an end goal, but it needs to fulfill a broader goal of making people safe. So with this, we just try to gather all the information to try to promote and support communities that already know how to negotiate to better achieve the constraints that they are struggling with. So we tried to, we tried, it is a working progress, but for us we are aiming to provide a tool where community members and country level staff can together think on ways of how to negotiate with our doctors. Being then local authorities or non-state armed groups knowing that the communities they already have a lot of knowledge. So the idea that we found needed is to provide a systematized way of doing so because the knowledge is already there and the idea is to prepare for negotiation dialogues. We based this tool that we draft from the tools from the CCHN manual for negotiators. So we were inspired by them and we tried to think on ways on how we can provide community center baselines and ensure adequate and appropriate programming, how we could strengthen and give invisibility to women, youth and religious leaders. And youth appeared as one of the most important groups in achieving these goals related to access and protection. So the idea is to try to implement this tool in some sense in the local area in-field and try to see if this is supporting or not the negotiations dialogue. So we will have a space to better debate and discuss this in the breakout room. If you stay in the breakout room one, we will try to test using a scenario. But yes, we found a lot of knowledge from local communities and especially youth and women and local leaders in them. So we just want you to facilitate. We don't want a top-down approach, but yes, I think this was the main goal from the final. Thanks so much, Fernanda. And before we close, Fernanda Roberta, I don't know if there's any closing remarks you have thinking about this study, the learnings and lessons that we've heard from Roberta and Mali before we pass on to Delina. Maybe just on what Fernanda said that of course the context are very different and the situation is different from one country to another and even from one part of one side one country and another. But I think that it's very useful to do this kind of learning and exchange of lesson learned from one place to another. And as we will see in the breakout room with these tools, they can be adapted and the base of this kind of research could really be useful in different context and situation. Thank you. Yes, I agree with Roberta. Perfect. Well, thanks so much, Roberta and Fernanda. And I look forward to that breakout room where we can explore in more detail as Roberta says some of those contextual differences and understanding the exchange that we can have between different countries to facilitate these processes. So right now I'd like to pass over to my co-facilitator Davina, who I understand is going to introduce a segment of participation from the Philippines. So over to you Fernanda. Davina, sorry. Thank you for giving me the floor, Ami. So actually, I am enjoyed because it is a pleasure for me to introduce two amazing young people, Karl Baguk and Kate Bitham, who are both adolescent representatives from the CHI and Adolescent Survivor Initiative call groups. And community and family services internationally CFSI based in the Philippines and are here to talk a bit about their experiences. But here I call for the attention of each and every one of you because before we begin with the questions, we want to show you an interesting six minute videos of the project in the Philippines. So pay great attention to that.  Particularly if you look at the age range, it's more of 13 years old until 15. So given the situation of the experiences of the adolescent in terms of child protection and gender-based violence, CFSI together with UNICEF, we are now implementing the Participatory Barrier Analysis. This project is a youth-led initiative that is being implemented by eight core group members in Sambwanga City. The Barrier Analysis is about a new-led participatory action analysis that projects where we as children, adolescents and new-led are doing the same thing as a consultant to identify barriers to accessing services and design changes that we are also implementing in that area. In the first one of the Barrier Analysis project, it talks about or consults with agencies that are involved or are responding to the cases of sexual violence and other types of abuse of children. To find out what are the barriers to accessing services for victims of abuse. We also have identified three change activities or activities that can be done by children like us, so that the needs of other children in schools, barangais, and other communities have more children. So the first one is the use of social media to increase information dissemination and address social issues. The second one is to conduct advocacy-raising activities to further improve family support and address problem social issues. The third one is refresher courses and trainings for stakeholders and services providers and a formation of multidisciplinary case conference to address issues on referral mechanisms and structural support along with child-sensitive case management. I learned that we should give young people the opportunity to speak and listen to and stand for their rights and be together in this cause, helping and sharing no-snow age or gender. We will ask media about youth participation, especially involvement or engaging them in terms of the cases of sexual abuse. I think it would be best and it's part of the fundamental rights that they should always be involved and engage when you talk about youth development. They should always be part of the conversation because they knew better what is best for them. Sexual abuse and exploitation destroy lives, it destroys relationships and even affect the future of the victims. In the city of Zambuaga, I get a report daily from the Philippine National Police and whenever I get reports of violations against women and children, I immediately refer them to the social services department so that additional counseling can be given. My vision for Zambuaga City is to be a safe space for all children and as a multicultural city, I envision a nuanced and inclusive approach to child protection that takes into consideration the cultural issues and the multi-lens perspective. We, the Women and Children Protection Centre, Mindanao Field Unit, would like to extend our support to the project of community and family services internationally. And we strongly encourage other stakeholders to take action towards this cause. As a child of adolescence, we need to participate and be active in the activities to help the development of our culture and culture. When we invest in children, we invest in their future. This is our commitment to making our children's future a reality today. Every child has a right to a safe environment. Be an advocate. Support young people of Zambuaga City in building a community where no child is harmed or abused. No one, no one, no one, no one, no one, no one, no one left behind. Wow, I don't know for you but I was particularly moved away by the video we saw and the powerful message we heard. You know sexual abuse and exploitation of children is a violation of human rights and a public health problem with significant consequences for global health and development. So seeing young people and adults working together to address this situation is so fantastic. So I'm going to ask some questions to Carl and Ketra. Good morning everyone. I would like to introduce myself. I'm Catra. Yes, he's a member of the Adolescent Score Group of the participatory barrier analysis in the Philippines. I'm currently in first year college taking up Bachelor of Science in Nursing. And also I'm passionate about helping adolescents and young people to speak up for themselves and to be the voice of those who can. And to you Carl. Hello, good afternoon once again and good morning to everyone. My name is Carl and I'm also one of the core group member of participatory barrier analysis project from the Philippines. And today we will present to you our project. So Carl and Ketra, thanks again so much for being with us. Carl, my first question really is what are the reflections of different stakeholders in this project? I think it sounds amazing this project and thanks so much for the video. So, you know, I think we heard that there were community leaders, service providers, teachers, youth involved. So what have been the main reflections from all these different stakeholders to what you guys are doing? Yes, thank you so much mom. Good afternoon once again to everyone. So for the first question, what were the reflection of stakeholders coming from local government officials, service providers, and also from teachers. So for local government officials, they were amazed because the project was led by the adolescents and for adolescents itself. They have never encountered this kind of project where a member of the target sector led the project themselves. Second, the reflections coming from service provider, they were also amazed because we as adolescents or core group rose to the challenge in a time of pandemic when there are issues and cases of sexual and gender-based violence. They said that it is rare for adolescents and young people like us to participate and lead this kind of initiative instead of being concerned only with our personal lives. And lastly, the reflections coming from the teachers, there were surprised that at such a young age, we were able to lead this kind of project. Of course to address the issue of sexual violence against adolescents and looking at us, they were happy and thankful of what we have become because some of them were our teachers before. So that's all. That's amazing. Wow, that they were your teachers before. Incredible. And actually, to be honest from Columbia, I think this project is incredible and there's so much I think we could do as young people here. So it would be great at some point to connect again with you guys. Catherine and Carl, I guess my next question really is listening to what we saw in the video and what Carl has just mentioned with different stakeholders. What are the next steps for you guys in terms of the project? Where do you guys want to go with it? Thank you so much. So the question is what were the next steps? So the next step that we plan with our core group is based on the findings, change activities or interventions were identified and prioritized by the adolescents and key stakeholders. We're also used of social media to increase information dissemination and access to services and also to conduct of advocacy activities to improve family support and address prevalent issues. And then to also conduct of refresher course and trainings for stakeholders and services providers and the formation of multi stakeholder case conference to address issues on a referral mechanisms and structural support along with child sensitive management. And also we have a next step is to gather with stakeholders and services providers. We adolescents core group formulated a strategic plan as well as work of financial plan that specified the activities to be conducted and resources that would be needed to implement the prioritized interventions. And the next steps, Cria Carl will introduce this. Thank you so much. Thank you, Kat. And of course to add on what Katra said, on what's after the project. So we also have the implementation of change activities focused on 23 barangais coming from local government units located within the seven kilometer radius of the city center as our pilot areas. So in just two months, they started following what was able to accomplish. We're able to accomplish. So first, the use of social media to increase information dissemination and access to services. So using Facebook, as we all know, Facebook was chosen by the core group as a social media platform to increase information on sexual violence and access to services because of its popularity among adolescents here in Samboga city. The Facebook page I report Kabatan ZC. So you can search on it. I report Kabatan ZC was launched in September 2021 and currently the page have been have more than 800 followers. According to Facebook page analytics, there are the post reach around 145,800 people and there were around 13,900 post engagements. According also to audience analytics revealed that the most engaging posts were those featuring and reporting and the federal pathways for cases of child abuse and exploitation. Aside from that, in just two months, we also conducted advocacy activities to improve family support and address prevailing social issues. Advocacy activities included the production of distribution of information education and communication or what we call the IEC materials. And of course the conduct of session on adolescents, sexual and reproductive health and on SOGI as well or sexual orientation, gender identity and expression with the Barangay local government units, including the local youth council officials. Also the school were also included in the distribution of IEC materials. Also, and lastly, in just two months, we also conduct of refresher course and training for stakeholders and services providers. And of course the formation of multi stakeholder case conference to address issues on referral mechanism and structural support along with child sensitive case management. Here, the refresher course and training on referral mechanism and child sensitive case management were conducted for service provider who directly attend to and to manage the cases of sexual abuse and violence. The local government and youth council officials. So the multi disciplinary case conference groups were a refresher course and training. The composition of each group includes social workers, police officers, doctors and representative of the village council for the protection of children. So the formation of them of the multi disciplinary case conference groups ensured that the cases will be managed in a timely and effective manner, thereby improving access and quality of services for adolescent survivors of sexual violence. Okay, that's that's really amazing. And like the next question goes to Kate and Carl. So what's it participating in the project mean to you? How about you, Kate? The question is what did participating in the project mean to you? Well, for me is in a way of I was able to understand and appreciate the issue and needs of adolescents affected by the circumstances that they face in their daily lives. Furthermore, as adolescents, I felt the trauma of some adolescent survivor survivors of sexual violence and their need to be heard and also to break free from the experience. And this project means a lot to adolescents in helping them deal with their pain and also to recover to that trauma. That's all. Thank you. Aside from that, after aside from that, it is also to take care of our mental health. We went through counseling and the briefing after we conducted the focus group discussions with adolescents as our respondents, and we were able to process and manage our feelings about the story of our fellow adolescents. That's all. Thank you. Thank you too. Okay, so the next question goes to you Carl. What were the challenges? Thank you. So far, the challenges that we faced during the implementation of our project, the primary challenge was faced during the project was the pandemic. Since the city of Sambuanga, our city was under lockdown several times, and we had limited face-to-face interaction with the adolescents. But we were also able to use online platforms such as the Google Meet. That's all. Okay, so this is the last question that goes to you, Karen Carl. So what happened after the project? How to take it forward? Yes, what happened after the project? First, we were able to launch the iReport in ZC. It is a Facebook page that helps our fellow adolescents to reach out if they experience sexual violence. So the page is active even though the project has ended. So if there are cases reported via our Facebook page, we refer it to CFSI or Community and Family Services to assist us on how to respond. And the Facebook page is currently being managed by CFSI's social worker at the Sambuanga sub-office. Aside from that, I was also invited by my school and other different organisations to talk about what is our project and to showcase the result. It opens a lot of opportunity for me, as well to my fellow Card Group member. Okay, also, after that, we still continue to advocate for access to services by survivors of sexual violence. And we want the voice of adolescents and young people to be heard so that no one is left behind. Thank you, and that's all. Okay, so I really mark my words. You guys are really amazing young people. And I was really blown away by all what you guys said. So I really encourage you to go further with what you are doing. So now I'm going to give the floor to Amy to introduce the breakout groups. Thanks so much, Davina. And I completely echo what Davina has said, Carcat. This is such an incredible project and so amazing to see something led by adolescents. I really wish you all the best in the next parts of these projects. Super interesting. And I'm sure everyone here wants to see how you guys move on forward in the future. As Davina said, we're now going to break out into two breakout rooms. So group one is a breakout room with myself, with Fernanda and Roberta. We're going to focus on a case study that's kind of focused on the research that Fernanda was mentioning. And the second breakout room is with Joyce, Astrid, Davina, Carl and Cat. And this is going to be focused more on a case study linked to the work that Cat and Carl are doing. So my invitation to you is an understand that you can choose which breakout room you would like to go in. We're slightly short of time. So we may reduce slightly the timings for our breakout rooms. Yes, thanks so much, everyone. And unfortunately, I believe that we pushed for time. So we're going to now join back to the main room. Thank you to everyone who shared their comments to Doreen, to Jules. Really appreciate it. The Jamboard is still there, so feel free maybe in another time to continue following it. And we know that it's still an editable version. So I'm just going to wait until we have everyone back with us and we will continue into the next part of our session. Everyone is back, Amy. You can carry right on. Julie, excellent. Thank you so much. Right, welcome back. I hope the group too had a great discussion. I know that in group one it was really interesting to hear some of the thoughts and reflections of coming out from colleagues. And really thanks again to participating. I understand now we're just going to pass to a quick menti poll. I think we have a link for group one and for group two if I'm correct. So production team, I don't know if you would be able to help us kindly share those links for those who took part in group one and for those who took part in group two. It's a quick menti poll. And then we will pass to the next section. Perfect. Thank you so much, Natalie. So I understand colleagues in the chat. We have the menti poll for group one. We would invite you to please click the link and answer the following questions. And then for group two, which was child participation, we also have another link in the chat. Again, we'd invite you to open the link and share your comments. So I'm just going to give you one quick minute to fill that in and then we'll pass to our next section. Thank you so much. Perfect. So group one, what is your one key takeaway from that negotiations at breakout session? We kindly encourage you to share your comments and your thoughts. And then we'll pass quickly to the slide for group two as well to see some of the feedback that was coming out of group two. So we've got here process, education dialogues are a priority, children need to be involved. Exactly. I think child centred responses are super important context. I think Doreen now shed some of the context that she's working in really important that we think about different context. Negotiation preparedness attacks on schools and importance of understanding protection risks involving community leaders. How to engage non state on doctors intangible manners. Communities to protect themselves. Really great feedback here colleagues. So thanks for sharing. Judy, I don't know if we can pass now to group two on the screen just to see some of the feedback from group two. Thanks so much. Apologies if you're saying that. No we're seeing group two. Don't worry. So group two, your key takeaway sessions from the child participation breakout session. We've got prioritising education. Youth and Children are capable of voicing their needs very much in agreement. Social cultural barriers and policy procedures. Collaboration to become inclusive. Child participation is key. Sharing ideas and experiencing. Supporting child and adolescent participants requires a multidisciplinary approach very much in agreement. We also have putting children adolescents needs at the centre. New ideas, I think that's very true. It's important that we always innovate now that we have refreshing approaches to how we work in our fields. Youth and disabled people face various obstacles to participation. Agree. I think it's really important that we think of our inclusion and how we're including everyone regardless of their identity. Colleagues, thanks so much. I think there's so much here that we will look at and review. So I really thank you for taking part in those mentee polls. Slightly conscious of time because we will need to now move on to our closing. So I just want to pass over now to Barbara Wyerman. Barbara, welcome again to the space. Barbara is the advisor, the gender advisor in humanitarian action. So for gender based violence, a focal point for protections exploitation and prevention of these, the prevention of sexual exploitation for the Swiss Development Corporation. So Barbara, once again, welcome to the space. Just want to hand over to you to say a few words. Thank you very much, Amy. And good morning or good afternoon to all of you. I'm very happy to have participated in this event. Thank you so much to all of you, to all the panellists and participants for the inspiring and truly amazing work you shared with us. You have shown us how things change when we put young people in the lead. It is really impressive how you're able to, how these young people are able to analyse the barriers they face and how they negotiate, you know how to solve the problem. It's really, for me, it's again and again amazing to see how convincing and creative young people are in the endeavour to bring about change. When I hear about this experience, I'm wondering why this is not done more often. Why organisations have difficulties to truly and not tokenally engage with the children and youth for whom they work. The same question that we must answer related to why it is so difficult to put women led organisations and youth led organisations in charge of addressing the problems that their members face. It seems obvious and yet as donors we are struggling to do the right thing. Switzerland has made a commitment to work towards equal partnership with local organisations, especially women led organisations, through the call to action on the protection from GBV emergencies. Equal partnerships with local organisations is also a top priority of the Swiss co-chairship of the pooled funds working group. I think equal partnership is the key word for effective action. It means listen and learn together and adjust the ways we work. At SDC we are really pleased that we were able to fund the barrier analysis in the Philippines that was presented by Carl and Katra. We are sharing this excellent experience with our country offices and encourage them to take it up in their contexts. As it was mentioned just now in the feedback, child participation is key. I would like to thank the organisers of today's event for providing a platform to promote and support the innovative work of local organisations and for partnering with the initiatives of amazing young women and men. Thank you and back to you Amy. Thank you so much Barbara and really echo your thoughts now. So important that we have a very meaningful child and adolescent led participation and so great to hear from the project in the Philippines with Carl and Katra and great that we have this platform. So thanks so much for taking part Barbara. Really appreciate it and all the efforts from your side. So I'm now just going to hand over to Amanda Weyler from CEDA. She is a senior policy specialist at the Humanitarian Unit. So Amanda, over to you to share a few words. Thanks so much. Thanks very much Amy and thanks in particular to Carl and Kat and Davina for the energy and the drive that you've displayed here today and the type of work that you're doing in your communities and countries. Sometimes I feel that those of you who are a little bit older than you should just get out of the way and let you get on with your work and support you as much as we can. From CEDA part of our humanitarian strategy is to provide dignified, help partners find dignified solutions to the protection and assistance needs that they have to work in hard to reach areas and to mainstream protection as a way. That is a kind of key concept in everything that we do and the projects we've heard about today really encapsulate those goals. And I think just to tie this to the overall topic of this year's forum, I think the idea of access that protects really challenges us to think about the quality of the work that we do. And from my perspective and what I hear in these projects is that that quality is about having sustained access and reach to people affected by crisis to ensuring that people are able to participate and shaping the solutions to their problems. And in particular kids, adolescents, young people, women to find and use and amplify local solutions wherever they happen, wherever they're present and to hold aid organisations and including us as donors to account. And so my final words would just be a call to the community organisations and local organisations and the youth activists that are listening to this meeting and participating today is that we are committed to taking your feedback seriously. We are open to being held to account for the role that we play in the humanitarian architecture and we are interested in hearing from you what makes the difference in the work that you do and to do what we can to provide that. So thanks very much to everybody and to the organisers for a very interesting event. No, thanks so much to you, Amanda, and for those closing remarks and words. Well, colleagues, we've arrived at the end of this event. Many thanks for all your time, for your attention and for your contributions. First and foremost, a great thanks to Carl and Katia for your presentation. I think I echo what Amanda and Barbara are saying. I think this has been a real learning lesson for all of us in the humanitarian sector of the importance of child and adolescent led projects. And I think, as Amanda said, no, it's really us that needs to step aside and to listen and understand how we can support and facilitate all the visions that you have. Thank you to Fernanda, to Roberta also to sharing some of the context in Mali. I think we really started to understand from that space. No, the importance of context analysis, really understanding our context, engaging with a range of stakeholders and thinking about the different risks and power dynamics and relationships for each of those stakeholders. So thanks so much for sharing that, Roberta. And finally, I wanted to give a great thanks to our co-facilitator Davina. I know Davina that the connection hasn't been the best, but I think it's so great to have you here. And it was super interesting to hear around all the work that you're doing with your organization at the beginning of the presentation. So that's all from me, colleagues. I just want to pass over now to Davina for closing words. So Davina, over to you. OK, so I'm really, really sorry for that. It's really frustrating that the connection was really unstable. So I won't be able to on my camera. So as my colleague said, we are at the end of the session. So thank you for, thank you to the participants for your contributions to everyone involved in the forum and the setting up of this event. So there is one thing I want to say before I leave. Remember that if you stand for a reason, be prepared to stand alone like a tree, and if you fall on the ground, fall like a seed that grows back to fight again. Thank you everyone. May God bless you.