IHS also conducted awareness raising sessions and reached IDPs in Amhara region through community outreach awareness raising activities. The topics of discussions were; how to prevent themselves from explosives/mines, child rights, keeping environmental and personal hygiene. Foster care recruitment campaigns were held as well.

IHS provided trainings to frontline social workers and partner staff on basic concepts of emergency child protection, alternative care arrangement, psychological First Aid, case management, protection monitoring, reporting tools and rapid protection assessments tools.