CPMS WG

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.
 
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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.
 

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The CPMS is Now Available in Polish and more!

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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

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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

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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...

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.

Resources

Enhanced CPMS Indicators Table

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.

Guidance | A Brief Guide: Selecting Child Protection Minimum Standards Indicators for Application in Programs, Projects or Humanitarian Response Plans

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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

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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...

Child Protection Minimum Standards Implementation Toolkit

With the 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), we are well prepared to improve quality and accountability in children’s protection and well-being. But the CPMS itself is only the first step in improving our responses to protect children. Child protection coordination groups, humanitarian agencies and national and local actors must now work...

Guidance | Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and INSPIRE Strategies

Today, one in four children lives in a country affected by conflict or disaster. Crises tend to last longer and become protracted, increasingly blurring the lines between humanitarian and longer-term development interventions. Preventing and responding to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence against children at all times, is therefore key. This includes addressing risk factors and...

2019 CPMS & COVID-19 Brief

The 2019 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action provide critical actions to keep children safe and support children and families’ well-being in infectious disease settings like the current COVID-19 pandemic. This brief answers key questions such as: What parts of the 2019 CPMS are applicable in COVID-19 outbreaks? How can the 2019 CPMS help strengthen protection of children...

2019 Annual Meeting Report: The Humanitarian-Development Nexus and the Launch of the 2019 Edition of the CPMS

The 2019 Annual Meeting was held in Geneva, Switzerland, and brought nearly 150 participants from around the world. The "Humanitarian-Development Nexus" focused the presentations around the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats actors face when working within the nexus. Some common themes, including funding, cross-sectoral collaboration, and mapping of the nexus, emerged throughout the...

2019 Edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)

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The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) have become one of the key resources for humanitarian workers since its launch in 2012. The CPMS 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...

Webinars

Webinar | An Introduction to Prevention with the Child Protection Minimum Standards

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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

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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(link is external). 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

CPMS Pillar 4: Standards to Work Across Sectors

CPMS Pillar 4: Standards to Work Across Sectors

CPMS Standard 21: Food Security and Child Protection

CPMS Standard 21: Food Security and Child Protection

CPMS Standard 23: Education and Child Protection

CPMS Standard 23: Education and Child Protection

«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

Video | Introducing the 2019 Edition of the CPMS

CPMS STANDARD 17 WEBINAR

Webinar Recordings: Child Neglect in Humanitarian Settings

Hannah has a new job

This is Samira

Child Protection for Minimum Standards Working Group Leads

Wajahat Ali, International Rescue Committee

Susanna Davies, Save the Children