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Contact us at: ame.wg@alliancecpha.org
Our Mission
The AME (Assessment, Measurement, and Evidence) Working Group exists to empower child protection practitioners with the tools, evidence, and skills needed to improve outcomes for children in humanitarian settings. We focus on promoting evidence-informed decision-making, fostering collaboration, and building capacity to integrate data and insights into program design and implementation.
Key Priorities of the AME Working Group
- Developing and Sharing Tools: We create, review, and disseminate tools and methods to help practitioners assess and monitor child protection programs effectively.
- Generating and Promoting Evidence: We synthesise, analyse, and share evidence to inform and improve child protection in humanitarian settings.
- Building Capacity: We provide training, guidance, and resources to enhance the skills of practitioners and organisations in using evidence and assessment tools.
- Collaborating Across Groups: We support other Working Groups and Task Forces in advancing their work through evidence-based approaches, including developing shared methodologies and frameworks.
Latest News
New Survey: How Are Funding Cuts Affecting Children’s Protection?
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...
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...
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
Guidance Note | Resources for Conducting Ethical Research with Children in Humanitarian Contexts
This Resource List catalogues critical resources to guide ethical good practices in participatory research with children in humanitarian contexts. It is not an exhaustive compilation, nor does it propose new ethical guidelines. Instead, it highlights existing tools that help researchers and practitioners understand, utilise, and apply well-established ethical principles.
These resources are
Enhanced CPMS Indicators Table
An easy-to-navigate PDF, the Enhanced CPMS Indicators Table includes the 28 Child Protection Minimum Standards and their indicators with type, target values and explanatory notes plus suggested computation methods and data source examples. Developed by the Assessment, Measurement and Evidence Working Group, this tool is part of the measurement framework of the CPMS 2019 edition.
Resources
Guidance Note | Qualitative Assessment Approaches for the Protection of Children with Disabilities Within Humanitarian Contexts
Children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable in humanitarian settings, yet they are often not able to access the services and protection they need. While multiple factors create these barriers, a major cause is how data about children with disabilities is collected and mapped. Data collection processes often exclude or underrepresent the views of children with disabilities and thier...
Guidance | A Brief Guide: Selecting Child Protection Minimum Standards Indicators for Application in Programs, Projects or Humanitarian Response Plans
This guidance document provides information on the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) measurement framework. Traditionally, accountability measures in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) have focused on meeting output benchmarks (such as number of people trained, number of community awareness campaigns carried out, or number referrals to service providers made), rather than...
Position Paper | Defining Evidence-Based Practice for Application in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
There is widespread recognition among practitioners and researchers of the need to build a stronger evidence base for child protection work in humanitarian settings to be able to determine what approaches and practices are appropriate and effective in a variety of contexts. The objective of this position paper is to create a common understanding of what makes a particular child protection...
Evidence Brief | Why Identifying Risk and Protective Factors is a Critical Step in Prevention Programming: Implications for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Humanitarian crises, including natural disasters, conflict, and infectious disease outbreaks threaten the health, safety and well-being of children, families, and communities. Risks to children in humanitarian settings are multiple and may include: family separation, recruitment into armed forces or groups, involvement in hazardous labor, physical or sexual abuse, psychosocial distress, injury and...
Guidance | Identifying and Ranking Risk and Protective Factors: A Brief Guide
Recognizing the strategic importance of improving evidence- based approaches to preventing child protection issues, this guidance document was developed as part of the Alliance-led Prevention Initiative to support child protection humanitarian practitioners in their prevention programming efforts. While child protection agencies operating in humanitarian contexts generally conduct systematic risk...
Contextualizing and Measuring Child Well-Being in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance AME Working Group is excited to present the Child Well-Being Contextualization Guide! The package of child well-being resources includes: 1) Defining and Measuring Child Well-Being in Humanitarian Action: A Contextualization Guide Ensuring children’s well-being is generally recognized as the ultimate goal of child protection in humanitarian action (CPHA). A global definition of child...
Child Protection in Emergencies Situation and Response Monitoring Toolkit
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide guidance on how to develop and implement systems for monitoring child protection issues that affect children in humanitarian settings, as well as for monitoring the child protection response. Acknowledging the multifaceted nature of protection, this toolkit focuses only on protection of children. However, it has to be considered in the broader context of...
Summary: Review on Child Wellbeing in Humanitarian Action: Concepts, Definitions and Domains
This is a summary of the Alliance's Desk Review on Child Wellbeing in Humanitarian Action: Concepts, Definitions, and Domains. A chapter-level summary is presented in 11 postcard-sized slides, highlighting the desk review on the definition of child wellbeing in humanitarian action. Reading time: 3 minutes
Webinars
Webinar | Enhancing Parenting Practices in Humanitarian Settings: Evidence and Strategies
Discover how parenting interventions can transform lives in humanitarian crises. Our expert panel will discuss the findings of a comprehensive meta-analysis on reducing violence against children and improving family well-being in low- and middle-income countries. What You'll Learn: Key findings on the effectiveness of parenting interventions. Challenges and strategies for implementation in crisis...
Webinar | Harnessing AI and Secondary Data for Smarter Child Protection in Humanitarian Contexts
In the second instalment of the Empowering Child Protection through Evidence Webinar Series, presented by the Alliance, the CPAoR, and UNHCR, this webinar will feature case studies demonstrating how child protection actors can use data and evidence to inform their response, monitoring, and planning in humanitarian contexts. In today’s increasingly complex crises and with the abundance of data...
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 | Capturing Voices: Evidence Generation for CAAFAG
Watch the recording in French or Spanish ! The involvement of children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) in evidence generation, including data collection for research and learning, is often methodologically and ethically challenging. While it is understandable that field practitioners may be hesitant to involve CAAFAG in knowledge generation activities due to the risks and...
