Towards an East Africa regional model to detect and respond to OCSE — Lessons from Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia
26 June 2026 | Kampala, Uganda
Cross-country learning on online child sexual exploitation: TdH NL at ISPCAN Rise Up Forum
Online child sexual exploitation (OCSE) is one of the fastest-evolving threats to children in East Africa. It is also one of the hardest threats to detect, document and respond to. Internet access is expanding rapidly across the region, but safety awareness, reporting systems and inter-agency coordination are not keeping pace. Cases are missed, misclassified, or never reach the justice system at all.
Three governments from Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia are working to change that. At the ISPCAN Rise Up Policy Forum in Kampala this June, Terre des Hommes Netherlands is hosting a session that brings them into the same room.
The session ‘Towards an East Africa regional model to detect and respond to OCSE — Lessons from Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia’ examines what is working, what is not, and how strategies developed in one country can be adapted and scaled across the region.
The three-country picture
Kenya has integrated OCSE indicators into its national Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS), strengthening case identification and trauma-informed response through the SCROL and SCROL-Response projects.
Uganda is building a coordinated national response, anchored in the centralised SAUTI 116 helpline and mobile reporting platform, with parallel work to strengthen law enforcement and justice actor capacity.
Ethiopia, where OCSE has historically received less policy attention, has developed a new national guideline through the Ministry of Women and Social Affairs together with UN agencies and NGO partners, including Terre des Hommes Netherlands.
The session will surface what these three responses have in common, where they diverge, and what other countries in the region can take from them.
Speakers
- Magdalene Wanza Muoki – Moderator & Africa Regional Representative, Terre des Hommes Netherlands
- Merioth Wangui Ndumu – Head of Access to Justice for Vulnerable Persons, National Council on the Administration of Justice, Kenya
- Farida Batenga Kateregga – Programme Officer OCSEA, Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Uganda
- Abdulsalem Ahmed Mamiyo – Senior Expert, Child Care and Support, Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, Ethiopia
- Caroline Parmet – Lead Programme Coordinator, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, Kenya
Additional TdH NL programme staff will join the panel. The session is open to all ISPCAN delegates.
When & Where
ISPCAN Policy Rise Up Forum
June 26, 2026 | 2:00 PM
Hotel Africana Convention Center, Kampala, Uganda
Format and output
This is a working session rather than a presentation. Practical case studies, audience polling via Mentimeter, and creative content carrying children’s voices on what protection should look like. The session feeds into a co-created learning paper on system-level strategies for adapting and scaling OCSE responses across East Africa, to be published in the months following the Forum.
For session updates and reflections from the Forum, follow Magdalene Wanza Muoki on LinkedIn.
