This Strategic Brief outlines how the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) will support the sector in mitigating the impact of reduced resources and structural shifts in the humanitarian system. Review the previous Alliance 2021-2025 Strategy here.

Goal: Ensure the continuity of critical child protection prevention and response interventions in humanitarian settings, while adapting to funding shortfalls and changes to the humanitarian architecture.

Unifying Vision: The priorities outlined below, are meant to ensure and advocate for the continued prioritisation of children and their protection within the future of humanitarian action. This entails adaptability of programme implementation approaches to the current reality, while ensuring that children still receive the protection they need and deserve according to humanitarian principles and minimum standards. Therefore, the priorities outlined below should not be seen in isolation, but rather as components of a whole that would deliver on this vision.

Strategic Priorities: 

• Priority 1: Lead and support evidence-informed advocacy efforts that place children and their protection at the centre of humanitarian action
• Priority 2: Provide technical leadership for quality programming in line with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
• Priority 3: Alliance members have opportunities to collectively reflect, innovate, and act on emerging challenges to the protection of children in humanitarian crises in light of the current funding crisis

Suggested citation: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Strategic Brief: Prioritising Protection of Children in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape (2025).