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Introduction

Adolescents:

Early Childhood:

Children with Disabilities:

Gender: 

Child Participation:

Environmental Considerations:

Refugees, Internally Displaced and Migrant Population Settings:

Infectious Disease Outbreak Settings:

Urban Settings:

Mobile Programming:

Cash and Voucher Assistance:

Systems Strengthening:

Child Trafficking:

Standard 1: Coordination:

Standard 2: Human Resources:

Standard 3: Communications and Advocacy:

Standard 4: Programme Cycle Management:

Child Protection-Specific Resources:

Humanitarian Standards: 

PCM Resources: 

Disability/Inclusion: 

Child Participation and Ethical Considerations for involving Children in Programming: 

Safeguarding:

Standard 5: Information Management: 

Standard 6: Child Protection Monitoring: 

Standard 7: Dangers and Injuries: 

Standard 8: Physical and Emotional Maltreatment: 

Standard 9: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 

Standard 10: Mental Health and Psychosocial Distress:

Standard 11: Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups: 

Standard 12: Child Labour: 

Standard 13: Unaccompanied and Separated Children:

Standard 14: Applying a Socio-Ecological Approach to Child Protection Programming:

Standard 15: Group Activities for Child Well-Being: 

Standard 16: Strengthening Family and Caregiving Environments:

None at this time.

Standard 17: Community-Level Approaches:

Standard 18: Case Management:

Standard 19: Alternative Care:

Standard 20:  Justice for Children: 

Standard 21: Food Security and Child Protection: 

Standard 22: Livelihoods and Child Protection: 

Standard 23: Education and Child Protection: 

Standard 24: Health and Child Protection: 

Standard 25: Nutrition and Child Protection: 

Standard 26: WASH and Child Protection: 

Standard 27: Shelter and Child Protection: 

Standard 28: Camp Coordination and Camp Management and Child Protection: 


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Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action 2019 Edition equip humanitarians seeking to protect children effectively with the most comprehensive and up-to-date best practice so they can deliver professional programs.

From Evidence to Action: Centering Children's Voices during Infectious Disease Outbreak related School Closures and Reopenings

During 2021 and 2022, the Alliance and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), commissioned Proteknôn Foundation for Innovation and Learning to conduct participatory research across three humanitarian settings—Lebanon, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Colombia—to explore the...

Background Paper | Child Labour and Education in Humanitarian Settings

In humanitarian situations, the risks of children being out of school and engaging in child labour are both significantly elevated, particularly for displaced, refugee, and migrant children. Hence, while education is critical for the successful prevention of and response to child labour in...

A Research Summary by and for Young People | Children during COVID-19 : How were they impacted by school closures and what we can learn for the future?

This summary was written by seventeen research and round table participants aged 12 to 17 years from Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Lebanon, Laura Lee (Proteknôn) and Bethel Lulie (Proteknôn), with support from Elspeth Chapman (The Alliance), Amanda Brydon (Save the Children...

Joint Submission on General Comment 26 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change

This submission has been prepared by the Advocacy Working Group (AWG). Several AWG members formed a sub-group to discuss the forthcoming General Comment 26 on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change, from the perspective of child protection in humanitarian...

CPHA Learner Profiles

What are Learner Profiles? Learner Profiles are fictional characters that we create to represent a stakeholder group. Specifically, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action's learner profiles consider the audience of the Alliance’s work, from the perspective of learning and...

Guidance Note | Supporting Integrated Child Protection and Education Programming in Humanitarian Action

This Guidance Note supports the Alliance and INEE’s CPHA-EiE Joint Initiative by orienting both sectors to opportunities for program integration. Through collaboration, both sectors aim to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goal 4 to provide/ensure “inclusive and equitable quality education and...

Working Together

How do we, as humanitarian workers, effectively collaborate to improve children’s protection and well-being? This Inter-Sectoral Framework aims to serve as a collective steer for doing just that: centring children and their protection needs across all programs, sectors, and responses. It has been co...

CPMS Slide Deck

These are ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations to help you advocate for implementing the Child Protection Minimum Standards in your organization and build its capacity to do so. They cover the CPMS Principles, its four Pillars and the 28 Standards. They also exist in Arabic, French and Spanish.

Guidance Note | Primary Prevention of Family Separation

In 2021, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action published the Primary Prevention Framework for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Framework). This was developed due to the recognition that whilst there has been significant progress regarding response to harm against...

Learning Packages Menu | Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

This Packages Menu lists the training packages available from the Alliance. Further resources that can support learning exist (such as videos, case studies, webinar recordings) but are not listed in this document. For such resources, see the Alliance Past Webinars and YouTube Channel. For...

Recommendations | Enhancing Collaboration between Child Protection and Food Security Actors

On October 31st, the Alliance, alongside the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility, the Global Food Security Cluster and Plan International, organized a global online event to spotlight how food security impacts children and their protection in humanitarian contexts and recommendations for...

Annual Report 2022 | The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

This report contains an overview of some of the key activities of the Alliance Secretariat, Working Groups, and Task Forces in 2021 and priorities for 2022.

Advocacy Working Group Strategy 2021-2025

The Alliance’s Advocacy Working Group developed this advocacy strategy on behalf of The Alliance, drawing from extensive consultations with the Working Groups and Task Forces of The Alliance, members, and external actors. The advocacy strategy seeks to provide a clear vision and path for...

World Humanitarian Day 2022

There is a saying that goes: It takes a village to raise a child. Similarly, it takes a village to support a person in a humanitarian crisis. With record-high humanitarian needs around the world, this year’s World Humanitarian Day builds on this metaphor of collective endeavour to grow global...

The Alliance 2022 Annual Meeting Report

Did you miss out on the Alliance 2022 Annual Meeting on Promoting the Centrality of Children and their Protection through Accountability, Localisation and Working Across Sectors? No need to worry - you can follow-along just as if you were at the 2022 Annual Meeting by browsing through The Alliance...

Case Management Via Phone Learning Module

The Case Management Via Phone Learning Module aims to prepare case workers to safely deliver case management services via phone, when necessary, in the context of COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks (IDOs). The learning module, which includes a facilitator guide and PowerPoint, is...

Transitioning to Remote Case Management during COVID-19 Learning Module

The Transitioning to Remote Case Management during COVID-19 learning module aims to prepare case workers to safely transition to remote case management service delivery in the context of COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks. The learning module, which includes a facilitator guide and...

Blogs from the 2022 Annual Meeting

Check-out these blog posts from select sessions throughout the 2022 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action!

Information Management System (CPIMS+)

The CPIMS+ is an Information Management System that facilitates effective case management for individual vulnerable children. The database is designed to promote best practice and accountability, and to assist child protection programs in delivering quality care. The CPIMS+/Primero provides...

Quality Assessment Framework

The Quality Assessment Framework (QAF) (field testing version) is a tool developed to enable Child Protection actors to meet the quality and monitoring requirements of operating a case management system in humanitarian contexts. Quality assessments help ensure case management activities are carried...

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Template

The Standard Operating Procedures template (SOPs) is a practical resource used to guide Child Protection actors in defining roles, responsibilities and relationships between different people involved in the case-management system. The SOPs will articulate and contextualize the local (and legal)...

The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Standard 18

The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action have been developed to support child protection work in humanitarian settings by: Establishing common principles between those working in child protection; strengthening coordination between humanitarian actors; improving the quality...

Cash and Voucher Assistance and Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

What is the purpose of this tool? This tool gives guidance on providing cash and voucher assistance directly to children/adolescents who are unaccompanied or heading a household. Who is this tool for? This tool is for all actors using cash and voucher assistance as a form of intervention in...

Designing Cash and Voucher Assistance to Achieve Child Protection Outcomes in Humanitarian Settings

This guidance seeks to empower child protection actors so that they can integrate cash and voucher assistance into their programming. By enabling increased use of CVA within child protection responses we will be able to learn lessons on how best to design CVA that minimises risks and maximises...