Children Who are at Risk of Their Protection Rights Being Violated (CPMS)

Protection risks of children, their families, and their communities are exponentially compounded and increased during crises. Understanding historical and crisis-specific vulnerabilities and disparities in services allows both sectors to approach planning, interventions, and policy-making from a more informed perspective. As both sectors explore programmatic interventions, consider the following questions: 

  • How do these specific circumstances and experiences of each high-risk population impact a child’s ability to safely and fully access and participate in learning?
  • What are the specific barriers or challenges that prevent or limit access and participation?
  • Are existing learning interventions able to accommodate children’s specific protection and learning needs with no, little, or substantial additional inputs? What inputs are required?
  • Are government policies and school cultures/infrastructure welcoming, explicitly mitigate protection risks, and foster equity now and for the future?
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Urban warfare causes death and injury among civilians on a staggering scale. It destroys homes, communities and the social fabric. It cuts off access to health care, education, electricity, and clean water. Even so, accounts of the consequences of urban warfare for children, as a distinct segment of...
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These Guiding Principles are intended to serve the purpose of promoting and spreading knowledge of international humanitarian law and, in particular, of implementing the provisions protecting children affected by armed conflicts, especially children associated or previously associated with armed...
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Child, early, forced marriage and unions (CEFMU) is a severe violation of human rights and results in threats to children’s immediate and long-term wellbeing. As a child rights organisation dedicated to ensuring all children have an equal opportunity to survive, learn, and live free from violence...
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This set of comprehensive guidelines outlines a framework and set of principles intended to ensure that the rights and needs of separated children are effectively addressed.Created through close inter-agency collaboration, the guidelines aim to promote and support preparedness, coordination and good...
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The Global Compact on Refugees is a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing, recognizing that a sustainable solution to refugee situations cannot be achieved without international cooperation.It provides a blueprint for governments, international organizations, and other...
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Developed by Plan International Canada, the GRPTT creates a foundation for gender responsiveness which is applicable for day-to-day teaching practice. Gender considerations are integrated across all modules, including lesson and course planning, materials development, and positive discipline.The...
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This brief offers practical guidance for engaging men and boys in gender equity in and through education in emergencies (EiE). By providing men and boys with opportunities to examine their beliefs around gender and holding and holding them accountable to gender equitable beliefs and behaviours, men...
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The INEE Inclusive Education in Emergencies Training Module introduces participants to basic concepts of inclusive education in emergencies. This updated version builds on the 2011 Education in Emergencies Harmonized Training Package module and aligns with content in the Disability-inclusive...
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This report defines and clarifies key concepts and terminology for disability-inclusive education in emergencies (EiE) and provides seven guiding principles. It is meant to be used as a companion piece to the INEE Minimum Standards and to support stakeholders’ efforts to be more intentional in their...
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ECDAN and Grand Challenges Canada have released a landscape report on the status of children globally that they commissioned in 2023 as ECDAN was preparing its 2024-2028 strategy. The purpose of this report is to illuminate the interwoven challenges children face today, while also honoring the...
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These IASC guidelines provide a framework for working with and for young people throughout the humanitarian programme cycle (HPC), complete with tips, examples and case studies. In addition, humanitarian actors can use this guidance as a reference to design programmes that respond to their context.
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Engaging young people in humanitarian action is however not a matter of if but how. Through interaction with close to 400 young people across 54 countries, this report concludes that young people, and particularly young women, are severely affected by emergencies and protracted crises – and are key...
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This publication presents examples of policy ‘openings’ in four settings where different forcibly displaced population types are included in national education systems in different ways. For a balanced evaluation of progress in Colombia, Iraq, Nigeria, and Rwanda, policy objectives are held in...
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This brief was commissioned to contribute to expert discussion within the Secondary Education Working Group. It is intended to inform advocacy, programming and learning efforts to advance secondary education which is responsive to the prevention of child marriage and the inclusion of adolescent...
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This Technical Note aims to help guide programming intended to prevent and address the recruitment and use of children by armed groups in today’s conflicts. It is an output of the United Nations University’s (UNU) Children and Extreme Violence Project, which sought to fill key knowledge gaps about...
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Across West and Central Africa (WCA), the prevalence of child marriage is 41%, meaning that four out of ten girls and young women, or nearly 60 million, were married before the age of 18.  It is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, child marriages will rise. Tradition is one of the...
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Refugee Education 2030: A Strategy for Refugee Inclusion aims to contribute directly to the following goals of the Global Compact on Refugees: Ease the pressures on host countriesEnhance refugee self-relianceSupport conditions in countries of origin for return in safety and dignityThe strategy...
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Today, the world is facing compounding humanitarian, environmental and economic crises that have spurred the migration and displacement of millions of children and their families. The number of internally displaced children, refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers and in some cases, returnees, has...
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The exact number of children living in internal displacement worldwide is unknown, but there were estimated to be over 17 million at the end of 2018, as a result of conflict and violence, and millions more due to disasters. Five million youth, aged between 18 and 24, were also living in internal...
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This Tip Sheet offers interventions, guiding questions and an example of how 4 Key Gender Equality Measures (GEMs) support gender equality in Education projects and programs. It should be read together with the GAM Overview. The IASC GAM identifies and codes projects based on the extent to which key...
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Gender disparities in education persist in many low‐ and middle‐income countries. A clear understanding of the most effective approaches to improving education outcomes for girls, and to narrowing gender gaps, is largely missing from literature and practice. This review looks at whether...
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The INEE Gender Training Manual is intended to orient education practitioners to the INEE Guidance Note on Gender: Gender Equality in and through Education (2019). This training manual outlines 4-8 hours of training activities and materials related to gender-responsive education in emergencies...
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The INEE Guidance Note on Gender, an update to the 2010 Gender Pocket Guide, provides guidance on delivering education in a gender-responsive manner to anyone involved in providing education in emergencies (EiE) as part of an emergency preparedness, response, or recovery situation. This includes...
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The Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit compiles resources on: inclusive education, education in emergencies, disability inclusive education, and distance education across the humanitarian-development nexus.The resources aim to support practitioners to create and implement inclusive-distance...
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The Inclusive Education Resources and Toolkit is a resource and reference for all staff working in education programming to mainstream inclusion in their work. The Toolkit provides recommendations and resources to strengthen inclusive education programming to enable Save the Children to achieve...
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This resource highlights the central role of quality inclusive education in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It outlines how inclusive education for learners with disabilities contributes to ending poverty, promoting health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities, fostering...