Led By: International Rescue Committee and World Vision
Contact us at: advocacywg@alliancecpha.org
Our Mission
To ensure that the best interests of children in emergencies are recognised by all national and international actors in humanitarian emergencies and are reflected across all response mechanisms, through rights-based and solutions-oriented engagements.
Key Priorities of the Advocacy Working Group
The Advocacy Working Group works to ensure the best interests of children are recognised in humanitarian action, with a specific focus on:
- Raising the profile and understanding of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action in major international fora.
- Advocating for the adoption and implementation of guidance and policy to recognise child rights and child protection in humanitarian settings.
- Supporting collective, cross-organisational action in response to major threats to children's wellbeing in humanitarian settings.
Latest News
New Survey: How Are Funding Cuts Impacting Children and their Protection? 2nd Survey
One year after major global funding reductions, the Alliance is gathering updated evidence on how these ongoing cuts and humanitarian system changes are affecting children and child protection services. The survey takes 15–20 minutes, is anonymous, and is designed to capture experiences across levels— especially practitioners working at country and sub-national levels. Take the survey in English...
Key Updates to the Advocacy Resource Pack: Humanitarian Reset, UN80 & the CAAC Agenda
Our Advocacy Resource Pack has been refreshed with several important updates and new materials: 🌍 Humanitarian Reset & UN80 View the latest updates, including reports and messaging on the UN's 80th anniversary reform process and the Humanitarian Reset, including on humanitarian and child protection budgets, coordination structures. 📄 New Reports & Statements Find new publications from global...
New Briefing Note! Global Impact of Humanitarian Funding Cuts on Children’s Protection
Drawing on input from over 250 child protection practitioners in 55 countries, and insights from five leading child protection agencies, this new brief on the "Global Impact of Humanitarian Funding Cuts on Children and Their Protection in Humanitarian Contexts" presents stark evidence of the catastrophic consequences that ongoing funding cuts are having on children’s safety and well-being...
Responding to the Impact of Reduced Funding for CPHA Programming
In times of crises, ensuring the continuity and impact of child protection programming is essential. The Alliance has developed key resources to support advocacy efforts and case management in the face of funding constraints and sudden program changes. Global Impact of Funding Cuts on Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Contexts This briefing note is based on a data-gathering exercise...
Open Letter on Prioritising Child Protection in Humanitarian Action – Welcoming Mr. Fletcher's Leadership
Welcoming Mr. Fletcher to His New Role as UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs! On behalf of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility, we warmly congratulate Mr. Fletcher on assuming leadership at a pivotal time for the humanitarian movement. Children suffer first and most in crises, making every humanitarian...
Working Group Member Organisations
Key Tools
Brief | Global Impact of Funding Cuts on Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Contexts
Children have the right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence. Yet, in humanitarian crises children suffer first and most, with devastating consequences for their immediate safety and long-term well-being. The humanitarian system is under unprecedented strain. Major donors, including the US and key European governments, have drastically reduced humanitarian funding or
Advocacy Resource Pack | Positioning Child Protection in Humanitarian Action amid Funding Cuts, Shifting Priorities, and Humanitarian Reform
This Advocacy Resource Pack has been developed by the Alliance to support members in advocating for child protection amid funding cuts, shifting priorities, and humanitarian reform. It is a live document / interactive webpage and will regularly be updated to reflect the evolving context. The information provided is based upon ongoing analysis of the situation and critical information shared by our
Bank of Key Advocacy Messages for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Children have the right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence, enabling them to develop to their full potential and thrive. This is true regardless of where children live, including in humanitarian crises contexts. Children, in all their diversity, have the right to participate in decisions that concern them and exercise their agency without discrimination. Advocacy
Resources
One Year On from the First Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children: A Call to Strengthen Commitment to Children Affected by Conflict and Crisis
It’s been one year since the first Global Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children, held in Bogotá in 2024 — a milestone moment that united governments and partners around a shared vision: A world where every child grows up safe and free from violence. Since then, there’s been meaningful progress. But for many children living through conflict and crisis, protection remains out of...
Putting the Pieces Back Together: Centring Children and Their Protection in the Humanitarian Response in Gaza
With the ceasefire in Gaza and the scale-up of humanitarian assistance, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action calls for children’s protection to be placed at the centre of the response. This statement outlines urgent priorities to meet the needs of Gaza’s 1.1 million children — half of the population — who have endured loss, displacement, and trauma. It calls for child...
Briefing Note: The Impact of UN80, the Humanitarian Reset, and Funding Cuts on the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Agenda
This note outlines how ongoing reforms, in particular the Humanitarian Reset and UN80 Initiative, underpinned by deepening funding cuts, risk undermining the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda. It provides recommendations to ensure that critical gains that have been made to address the specific vulnerabilities of children in armed conflict are safeguarded and not reversed.
Unprotected: Analysis of Funding for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action in 2023
The report, Unprotected: Analysis of Funding for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action in 2023, in collaboration with the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility, UNHCR, and Save the Children, provides an in-depth analysis of the severe funding gaps that continue to impact child protection in humanitarian settings. As crises escalate worldwide, the report highlights the urgent need for...
The Centrality of Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Action – An Introduction
The centrality of children and their protection in humanitarian action is a shared responsibility, to ensure the entire humanitarian system is actively and consciously engaged in realising broader child rights as well as children’s rights to protection in each step of humanitarian action. On World Children’s Day 2023, the Alliance is deeply concerned about the devastating consequences of...
Alliance Pledges | Oslo Conference for Protecting Children in Armed Conflict
At the Oslo Conference for Protecting Children in Armed Conflict held on 5-6 June 2023, governments, UN agencies, and civil society, including networks and non-governmental organisations, were invited to make specific commitments to protect children in armed conflict. In consultation with our Steering Committee, Working Groups, Task Forces and Initiatives, the Alliance developed pledges covering...
Advocacy Template Tools
Please find the Advocacy Template Tools used during Session 18: How to do local advocacy for CAAFAG from the 2023 Annual Meeting. 1. Advocacy Strategy Template: To help design your strategy – including objectives, targets and tactics 2. Risk Assessment Template: To help assess when to do public / private advocacy and mitigate potential impacts on involving certain groups – i.e. children in that...
UNPROTECTED: Special Edition - Analysis of Funding for Child Protection in Armed Conflict in 2021 and 2022
The impact of armed conflict on children is one of the most pressing humanitarian concerns today. A strong humanitarian child protection response is critical to protect children and promote their rights, dignity, and resilience. This requires sustainable, flexible, multi-year funding for child protection within UN-coordinated humanitarian and refugee response plans. This briefing sets out the...
Webinars
Webinar | Sustaining Child Protection in Humanitarian Action: Trends, Tools, and Next Steps
Join us in this online event as we unpack the preliminary results of the Alliance survey on how funding cuts are impacting Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. We will learn more about the new Advocacy Resource Pack, designed to support your efforts advocating for sustained investment in child protection, despite reduced resources, shifting priorities, and ongoing humanitarian reform. The...
Webinar | Strategic Advocacy and Funding in CPHA: Leveraging Data and Evidence for Success
This webinar, hosted by the Advocacy Working Group and Assessment Measurement and Evidence Working Group, will delve into the crucial role of data and evidence in shaping advocacy strategies for child protection in humanitarian action (CPHA) and in securing funding. Through case studies and expert insights, the webinar will highlight successful examples where evidence and data have been used to...
Webinar | Exploring the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Child Protection in Humanitarian Contexts
Now and for decades to come, climate change will exacerbate child protection risks and threats to the safety and mental health of children, and further inequity through its intergenerational impacts. This online session explored the existing evidence of the connections between climate change and risks to children’s protection and discussed the role that child protection actors and the wider...
Virtual Launch | Still Unprotected – Humanitarian Funding for Child Protection
Why is protection of children in humanitarian contexts so neglected, and what can we do to better protect these children from harm? In 2019, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Save the Children and the Child Protection Area of Responsibility published “Unprotected”, a report exposing shortfalls in humanitarian funding for child protection. With the global COVID-19 pandemic...
Webinar | The Need for Governments to Consult Child Protection Advisers when Loosening COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions
Advocacy Webinar sponsored by the Advocacy Working Group COVID-19 Advocacy Team (CAT): “The Need for Governments to Consult Child Protection Advisers when Loosening COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions” In April, the Spanish government was about to relax confinement restrictions for children, which was demanded by families and children’s organisations. The process led to rectifications and ultimately a...
