THANK YOU - to all the speakers, facilitators, and participants who attended the 2025 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Theme: Protection of Children from the Ground Up - Enhancing Localised Approaches in Conflict and Crises
Register and explore the recordings and session summaries on our dedicated webpage!
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action held the 2025 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action on Zoom from the 3rd - 5th of June 2025. This included 3 days dedicated to the theme of the meeting, “Protection of Children from the Ground Up - Enhancing Localised Approaches in Conflict and Crises”.
This year's theme emphasised locally-led child protection prevention and response actions that are informed and driven by local actors including community, local and national government and organisations, as well as communities and children themselves. It highlighted the importance of strengthening local systems and actors, and context-relevant and community-owned child protection including for quality and accountable actions. The meeting also situated this theme in the context of the current humanitarian funding and coordination reset.
The meeting was held in English with translated captions available in Arabic, French, Spanish, and a selection of other languages to ensure accessibility for all participants. There was also dedicated sessions and networking opportunity in both Spanish and French during the meeting at favourable times for participants in those regions.
Couldn’t join us live or want to revisit a session? The full playlist of 2025 Annual Meeting recordings is now available on the Alliance YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTqpcYbBSkF9RgWs7ZmlwW48iPXIWozNB&si=tfXoUkit3b3MP3I-
Watch and share key discussions on localised child protection, community-led solutions, and system-strengthening in humanitarian settings.
The Alliance’s 2025 Annual Meeting brought together 800+ participants to explore how local leadership is driving child protection in humanitarian settings. This blog series features reflections from Alliance members and partners on how, in a time of crisis and change, the sector is pushing back—through shared principles, strong partnerships, and collective action.
Read the first blog in the series here.
More blogs coming soon!
The agenda for the 2025 Annual Meeting is now available! Join us in getting excited about all of the latest developments and learning on humanitarian child protection from across the globe by reviewing the full agenda and flyers below. Find the latest version of the agenda and session summaries on our dedicated webpage.
- 3rd June: Protecting children from the ground-up in a changing humanitarian landscape
- 4th June: Strengthening local leadership and systems for continued child protection
- 5th June: Preventing a rollback on child protection standards and humanitarian principles
Download the PDF version of the Agenda in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
Please find Participant Pack for the 2025 Annual Meeting in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It is important that participants familiarise themselves with this pack before the meeting.
The Participant Pack gives you all the information you need to successfully participate in the meeting, including Important Messages, Must Reads, and the Code of Engagement for interacting with child and adult speakers and participants - take a look as soon as you can!
To give participants a deeper understanding of the meeting theme, we are pleased to share the Background Paper for the 2025 Annual Meeting.
This paper provides valuable insights and context to guide discussions and priorities of the meeting. It begins with briefly introducing the focus of this year’s theme, providing key definitions and concepts, and defining three focus areas. It then explores the three areas of focus in more depth - outlining challenges, opportunities and enabling factors, and case studies. Each section ends with questions for further exploration and discussion.
Access the Background Paper in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish!