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...
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
Indicators to Measure Cross-sectoral Contributions to Children’s Protection and Well-being
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
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.
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
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
CPMS Pillar 4 Standards to work across sectors
An introduction to the Child Protection Minimum Standards Pillar 4: Standards to work across sectors.
CCCM, Health & Child Protection: Practitioners’ Feedback on Inter-Sectoral Collaboration
Strengthening cross-sectoral collaboration is a strategic priority for the Alliance. This publication explores promising practices and missed opportunities in cooperation between Camp Coordination and Camp Management and Child Protection, and Health and Child Protection.
Education & Child Protection: A Review of Good Practice on Inter-Sectoral Collaboration
This document aims to extract lessons from country- and local-level practice of collaboration between Education in Emergencies and Child Protection actors across diverse contexts. Where possible, the focus is on what works at the level of the school or learning space. The challenges section touches upon the gaps articulated by practitioners. It also includes recommendations at the programming...
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.
eCourse | 2019 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
Welcome to the Alliance’s core training on the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS). To enroll, CLICK HERE ! This introductory e-course is for anyone currently working with and for children in humanitarian settings, as well as all child protection workers who want to prepare themselves for a potential humanitarian crisis. It can be used: As self-guided learning; Aa...
Storybook | Seeing Forced Displacement and Protection Through a Child’s Eyes
Seeing Forced Displacement and Protection Through a Child’s Eyes When her hometown erupted in violence, young Mariam was forced to flee with part of her family. Three years later, she tells her story in I am Mariam, a delightful, illustrated book. Accompanying her in her journey, we discover how she sees the world and learn together what children’s protection means in practice. Experiencing war at...
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...
Working Across Sectors to Promote Children's Protection and Well-Being
Working across sectors to promote children's protection and well-being is a priority for the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. The 2019 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) also provides focused standards and guidance to better work across sectors in order to prevent and respond to the protection risks children face. Explore the Working Across...
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 | 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 . Susanna Davies and Joanna Wedge, co-leads of the CPMS Working Group, will share the major changes in the 2019 edition, answer your questions, and share options and...
Live Q&A | Child Neglect in Humanitarian Settings
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 impacts of child neglect in humanitarian contexts, and the recommendations for further...
Webinar | Child Protection Minimum Standards Revision - Application in practice and next steps
Since the Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) were launched six years ago, these standards 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 organised an online session on 19 June 2018...
Pre-Recorded Audio | 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...
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 and 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
