Current Projects
Supporting Effective Advocacy in Liberia (SEAL)
The project aims to empower a cohort of Liberian civil society organizations (CSOs) by working with individual CSOs to identify specific capacity development needs and providing the requisite technical, material, and financial support to address such needs.
Improved COVID-19 Preparedness and Action for Prevention and Response (ICOPAPR)
The goal of this project was to reduce or eliminate the transmission of COVID-19 in five communities of Tappita, Zoe-Geh, and Sacleapea-Mh Districts in Nimba County.
Effective Community Engagement for COVID-19 Prevention (ECECOP)
The objective of this project was to significantly reduce or eliminate the transmission of COVID-19 through risk identification and communication through effective community engagement.
Partnership for Advancing Community Services (IRC/PACS)
The goal of the project is to improve primary health care through household access to integrated community-based health services.
Livelihood Support for Camp-based Refugees
This project sets out primarily to economically empower Ivorian refugee women and youths to enhance their livelihoods and self-reliance. This involves, on one hand, additional support to an existing Women Empowerment Project through expansion of its cassava production and processing capacities; value addition to, and expansion of cassava products; developing entrepreneurial skill and managerial structure of the beneficiaries (women); and improving sales and saving methods of the project. On the other hand, it supports the establishment of poultry and pig farming as well as training in, and production of, arts and crafts (beads work) for youth in PTP Refugee Camp.
KOWUU (a local vernacular translated as “our voices”)
Support the prevention of and response to sexual exploitation (SGBV and SEA) in 12 schools and 12 communities in Nimba County, Northern Liberia.
DAFI Scholarship Program
(Tertiary Education for Refugees) in Montserrado, Nimba, Grand Gedeh, and Maryland Counties facilitates the provision of higher education for refugee youths in Liberia.
Education Enhancement Project
The project benefits communities that are in close proximity to Arcelormittal-Liberia’s concession sites in northern Nimba County. It aims to ensure that youths from affected communities complete secondary education level required for vocational and tertiary education, acquire higher marketable skills for economic empowerment leading to improved livelihood and poverty alleviation.
Refugee Women Empowerment Project
Funded by the U.S. Embassy in Liberia the project contributes to the well being of sixty (60) vulnerable refugee women and adolescent girls in the PTP refugee camp in Grand Gedeh County through capacity building for income generation and self-reliance, and the advancement of women’s rights. The target population benefits from training’s in value addition to cassava (attieke production), small business management skills, sexual and gender-based violence, HIV/AIDS, food sanitation, and advocacy skills.
Enhancing Healthy and Safe School Environment
The objective is to contribute to increase in school enrollment, retention, and completion rates by students (especially females) in rural primary schools through improvement of physical school structures and WASH facilities; promote girls’ self-care (personal hygiene), provide educational assistance to “special-need” children, and strengthen public awareness on the importance of education and children’s health.
Past Projects
Below is a list of some projects implemented by SEARCH over the years.
Care and Maintenance for Ivorian Refugees – Community and Camp Based Refugees
This project with funding from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) ran from 2009 to 2017. Through the project SEARCH constructed 346 permanent shelters for refugees and provided social, educational, economic, and healthcare support services to 16,199 refugees. The intervention provided essential services for dignified livelihoods for refugees between the periods of emergency and durable solution for refugees in Liberia.
Strengthening Child Protection Mechanisms for Protection of Children Affected by Ebola
With funding support from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) the project sought to strengthen and provide a protective and supportive environment for 500 children and adults affected by the Ebola Virus Disease. The support included provision of cash grants, skills training for livelihoods creation, and psychosocial services.
Ebola Community Action Platform
This project was funded by USAID through Mercy Corps. The twenty-week long intervention purported to effect behavior change among 15000 persons in 35 rural communities to prevent the spread of Ebola Virus Disease. Over 200 youth volunteers were recruited and trained to carry out public awareness campaigns.
Countering Youth And Child Labour through Education
The Countering Youth and Child Labour through Education Project seek to address specific cases of child abuse through the prevention of and response to Child Labour. The project also seeks to promote and enhance the well being of children through prevention and protection from works that threaten their growth and development.
Community Education Investment Program
The Community Education Investment Program facilitated the enrollment of 600 demobilized children in community and government schools across Nimba County; trained 7 peer groups on peer education, child rights, prevention of HIV, the protection from sexual exploitation and abuse; provided recreational supplies for 1,400 young people; built the capacity of 795 community members and school authorities by providing in-depth training in psychosocial-support skills.
Disarmament, Demobilization, Reunification And Reintegration (DDRR)
In 2003, SEARCH collaborated with the United Nations Mission in Liberia to disarm, demobilize and provide psychological and social services to 11,780 youth and adults who were associated with the fighting forces in Liberia.
Donors and Partners
SEARCH has for the last 16 years partnered with United Nations agencies, International Non Governmental Organizations and multilateral cooperation in carrying out interventions including:
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- United Nations Children’s Fund
- Save the Children Fund UK (Now Save the Children International)
- United Nations Development Programme
- Arcelormittal-Liberia
- International Organization for Migration
- Young Men Christian Association/Mercy Corps/USAID
- Search for Common Ground/ Swedish Cooperation for International Development
- International Rescue Committee/USAID
- The Carter Center
- U.S. Embassy in Liberia
- KidsRights