"The Comprehensive Security and Violence Prevention that affects Children, Adolescents and Youth in SICA Countries Regional Project¨ seeks to contribute to the overall outcome of reducing factors associated with insecurity and violence in Central American Integration System (SICA) countries, particularly the specific and different types of violence affecting children, adolescents and young men and women in all eight SICA countries: Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and the Dominican Republic. It will make an explicit strategy to address all types of violence affecting target populations, in both the public and private sphere, based on gender, intergenerational and other socioeconomic and cultural dynamics. In this framework, it is direct contribution to the priorities of the Central American Security Strategy and its Youth Violence Prevention Project.

The project will:

1. Support in the formulation and/or revision of a comprehensive citizen security policy for SICA countries, ensuring linkages between this national policy with regional ESCA priorities;
2. Support the development and implementation of plans and institutional capacities to improve social prevention of violence that affects women and youth at secondary and tertiary level, with emphasis on at risk population and territories with highest crime incidence;
3. An innovation laboratory to contribute to promote the generation, exchange, systematization, south-south and triangular cooperation, adaptation of best practices and creative and innovative approaches to citizen security, which emphasis on vulnerable groups, as an alternative to current approaches and interventions.