Our Projects
A full overview of SEARCH’s current and past projects across education, child protection, health, and livelihood support.
Second Chance
The overall objective is to support vulnerable out-of-school children (8–14 years) in Nimba to become functionally literate and numerate, while developing the necessary skills to drive their own learning beyond the project. The project covers key areas of the first three years of schooling (Grades 1–3) through a condensed curriculum for 10 months. Children learn reading, writing, and arithmetic through a participatory approach that places the child at the center of teaching and learning.
USAID Youth Advance ("YA") Pathway I
The goal is to build the literacy, numeracy, work readiness and life skills of youth (15–29 years) who have never attended school or who have been out of school for extended periods. The project supports self or wage empowerment, basic business development, entrepreneur skills, awareness on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, and life skills including leadership, interpersonal relations, personal hygiene, and gender sensitivity.
West Africa Pilot — Child Domestic Workers from Harm
The pilot project targets Child Welfare Committees (CWCs) to explore what role they can play in identifying and supporting child domestic workers (CDWs) at risk of exploitation. Activities include re-activating CWCs, engaging Liberia National Police Women and Children Protection Section (LNP-WACPS) and Liberia Immigration Service (LIS) Officers, community-level awareness raising, and developing a training manual informed by NORC-led research findings.
Effective Community Engagement for COVID-19 Prevention
Significant reduction or elimination of the transmission of the Novel Corona Virus (COVID-19) through risk identification and communication and effective community engagement strategies and approaches.
Improved COVID-19 Preparedness and Action
Strengthening capacity and preparedness of community participants to improve behaviour change and practices to prevent the spread of COVID-19; increase community response and compliance to existing health protocols and increase community access to quality information about COVID-19.
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
Economically empowering Ivorian refugee women and youths to enhance their livelihoods and self-reliance through cassava production and processing, entrepreneurial skills, and establishment of poultry and pig farming as well as arts and crafts training for youth in PTP Refugee Camp.
KOWUU — Sexual Exploitation Prevention
Supporting the prevention of sexual exploitation in high schools and communities in Nimba County, northern Liberia. "KOWUU" is a local vernacular translated as "our voices."
DAFI Scholarship Program
Tertiary Education for Refugees in Montserrado, Nimba, Grand Gedeh, and Maryland Counties — facilitating the provision of higher education for refugee youths in Liberia.
Refugee Women Empowerment Project
Contributing to the wellbeing of sixty (60) vulnerable refugee women and adolescent girls in the PTP refugee camp in Grand Gedeh County through capacity building for income generation, self-reliance, and advancement of women's rights. Beneficiaries received training in attieke production, small business management, SGBV, HIV/AIDS, food sanitation, and advocacy skills.
Education Enhancement Project
Benefiting communities in close proximity to ArcelorMittal Liberia's concession sites in northern Nimba County. Aimed to ensure youths complete secondary education, acquire higher marketable skills for economic empowerment, leading to improved livelihoods and poverty alleviation.
Enhancing Healthy & Safe School Environment
Contributing to increased school enrolment, retention, and completion rates — especially for females — through improvement of physical school structures and WASH facilities; promoting girls' self-care (personal hygiene); providing educational assistance to children with special needs; and strengthening public awareness on the importance of education and children's health.
