Led By: International Rescue Committee and Plan International
Contact us at: cpms.wg@alliancecpha.org
Our Mission
The Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) Working Group supports the participatory setting of sector-wide standards for child protection in humanitarian action, promotes their use and institutionalisation and captures lessons learned to improve them
The Child Protection Minimum Standards
One of the most widely used set of humanitarian standards, the CPMS are a tried and tested solution for child protection practitioners seeking to deepen their professional knowledge and improve their organisations’ programs.
Implementing CPMS Across Humanitarian Sectors
Every humanitarian actor has a responsibility and a role to play in protecting children and promoting their well-being. Collaborating across sectors is crucial to achieve these goals and make the most of available resources.
Latest News
The CPMS is Now Available in Polish and more!
The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) are now available in Polish and more, expanding access to critical guidance for child protection practitioners worldwide. The CPMS sets out essential principles and best practices to protect children in emergencies, providing a framework for effective, high-quality responses. These available translations ensure that more...
Now Open! CPMS Self-Assessment Exercise 2025
The CPMS are the backbone of the humanitarian child protection sector, and we at the Alliance are its custodians. The standards are designed to help us improve the quality of our programming and accountability for our actions. *Deadline updated! Between January 20 and March 9 2025, all Alliance members are strongly encouraged to complete the CPMS Self-Assessment Exercise to review their use of the...
New Resources for Working Across Sectors
The whole humanitarian system has a role to play in realising children’s rights, including their right to protection. Greater collaboration, action, and investment are needed to ensure all humanitarian interventions are safe, accessible, and child protection sensitive. When protecting children is a central and common objective across sectors, it contributes to greater accountability to children...
Working Group Member Organisations
Priorities
During 2022 and beyond, the Working Group will continue:
- Overseeing the roll-out of the CPMS 2019 edition,
- Promoting the CPMS implementation across sectors,
- Developing multimedia capacity-building resources,
- Supporting humanitarian agencies to institutionalise the standards, and
- Ensuring resources are available in Arabic, French and Spanish.
Key Tools
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-developed through engagement with practitioners from across sectors in humanitarian, refugee and
Resources
Working Across Sectors Starter Kit
Working effectively across sectors for children’s protection and well-being requires building relationships and collaboration with sectors like health, education, food security and camp coordination and camp management. Child protection actors need to understand other sectors’ approaches, priorities, and language to work well together. This kit contains key resources to help you start working — or...
Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality Framework
A tool to identify potential barriers to accessing services in humanitarian settings.
Working Across Sectors Three Modalities
A description of the three ways of working across humanitarian sectors.
Collaboration Tip Sheet: Health
A tip sheet about child protection actors’ contribution to health’s work, the latter sector's commitments to child protection, and tips and entry points for advocacy with health actors.
Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
A comic strip describing risks in humanitarian settings and the meaning and purpose of child protection in humanitarian action.
Child Protection Responsibilities of Humanitarian Actors
A comic strip describing key responsibilities of child protection actors and of all humanitarian actors.
Collaboration Tip Sheet: Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM)
A tip sheet about child protection actors’ contribution to CCCM’s work, CCCM’s commitments to child protection, and tips and entry points for advocacy with CCCM actors.
Child Protection Risks in Emergencies
A comic strip describing child protection risks in humanitarian settings.
Webinars
Webinar | An Introduction to Prevention with the Child Protection Minimum Standards
Join us for an engaging an interactive webinar on an Introduction to Prevention with the Child Protection Minimum Standards. This webinar will include guest speakers from the Alliance Child Labour and UASC Task Forces, as well as the prevention-expert, Alliance coordinator, Hani Mansourian. There will also be lots of examples and time for questions, activities and discussion! We look forward to...
Webinar | How to: Self-Assessment Process for the Child Protection Minimum Standards
Join the Alliance CPMS Working Group for an interactive webinar on "How-to: The Self-Assessment Process for the Child Protection Minimum Standards". This webinar will be a 60-minute session held in English with support available for French & Spanish speakers. We look forward to your participation!
Webinar | Strengthening Family & Caregiving Environments—CPMS Standard 16 in the Context of COVID-19
For the edited recording, click here. - The CPMS WG is launching a new webinar series to introduce the new standards in the 2019 edition of the CPMS. This webinar focuses on standard 16 - strengthening family and caregiving environments - in the context of the current global COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar will also include presentation of several real-world examples of family strengthening...
Webinar | Introduction to the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action in Latin America (Spanish Edition)
Recursos El vídeo Introducción a las Normas Mínimas para la Protección de la Niñez y Adolescencia en la Acción Humanitaria en Latinoamérica 2019 NMPNA y COVID-19 - Webinar Lanzamiento NMPNA en el marco de la emergencia por COVID-19 Únase a nosotros para una exploración de 90 minutos sobre las Normas Mínimas para la Protección de la Niñez y Adolescencia en la Acción Humanitaria. Aprenda sobre la...
Webinar | What's New? The 2019 Edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
This webinar - the first in a series to explore the 2019 edition of the CPMS - will introduce the 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), now available on the Alliance's website: https://cpie.info/2019CPMS. Susanna Davies and Joanna Wedge, co-leads of the CPMS Working Group, will share the major changes in the 2019 edition, answer your questions...
Live Q&A | Child Neglect in Humanitarian Settings
Listen to the edited recording of this Live Q&A. ____________________________________ Join the Alliance for a Live Q&A on on the report, Child Neglect in Humanitarian Settings. Date: Thursday, 24 Jan 2019 Time: 8am (New York) / 1pm (London) / 2pm (Geneva) / 4pm (Nairobi) / 8pm (Bangkok) Participation in the live Q&A will offer a deeper understanding of the evidence on the prevalence, patterns and...
Webinar | Child Protection Minimum Standards Revision - Application in practice and next steps
Since they were launched six years ago, the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) have become an important reference to help ensure that measures to protect children are a central component of all humanitarian action. As part of launching the next stage of the consultation and revision process to update the standards, PHAP and The Alliance organized an online session on 19 June 2018. This was...
Pre-recorded Audio & Transcripts | Protection of Children During Infectious Disease Outbreaks
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action hosted a global webinar introducing the newly-released Guidance Note: Protection of Children During Infectious Disease Outbreaks (IDOs) and associated briefing paper. These recordings and associated transcipts are from that webinar. Children are particularly vulnerable during epidemics or pandemics, but inter-agency guidance on how to...
CPMS Working Group Webinar on Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision
What are the differences and similarities between coaching, mentoring and supervision? How can we harness them in the CPiE sector? The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action hosted a lively set of presentations and discussions on the topic. The panel consisted of: Angie Bamgbose (freelance coach and child protection and safeguarding consultant), Stephanie Delany of the Case...
Webinar | Developing and Using Case Studies for CPiE Training Purposes
Using the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) mainstreaming case studies (and facilitators guide), Samantha Newman shared her professional experience of developing and using case studies specifically for training child protection workers in humanitarian settings in this webinar.
Webinar | Sexual Violence and Exploitation of Boys in Humanitarian Settings
A panel explores the latest learning on sexual violence and exploitation of boys in humanitarian settings. The webinar includes discussion on how to get more comfortable addressing the topic during trainings and community outreach sessions.
Webinar | Engaging Humanitarian Learners - Strengthening child protection within environments of compounded stress
This lively discussion led by colleagues from the Global Trauma Project looked at helping workshop participants transition from front-line, overstretched humanitarian workers to learners for a day (or week). It included lots of tips, examples, and resources.
Webinar | Designing and Implementing CPiE Learning & Development Strategies
In this webinar, Natalie McCauley presents the Alliance's approach to developing and using CP L&D strategies given the limited resources of humanitarian settings. Based on her experience supporting dozens of field operations, she walked us through the steps and issues that need to be considered to ensure success.
Media
«Hannah’s New Job» — Becoming a Child Protection Practitioner in Humanitarian Settings
CPMS Standard 9: What Is SGBV and How To Address It in Humanitarian Settings
Standards to Work Across Sectors
This is Samira
Child Protection for Minimum Standards Working Group Leads
Wajahat Ali, International Rescue Committee
