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?
In humanitarian situations, the risks of children being out of school and engaging in child labour are both significantly elevated, particularly for displaced, refugee, and migrant children. Hence, while education is critical for the successful prevention of and response to child labour in...
This case study describes how tailored education and psychosocial support for at-risk Syrian and Lebanese adolescent girls has helped to prevent child labour.
This case study describes how conditional cash assistance was used to promote education as an alternative for child labour among Syrian refugee children and vulnerable Turkish children in Şanlıurfa province in Turkey.
Inter-Agency Child Labour Toolkit | Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action
Every day, millions of children worldwide experience the consequences of violent conflicts, climate change, disasters and epidemics. In times of crisis, when people are forced to flee their homes, schools close, jobs are lost and the availability of services decreases, child labour becomes a coping...
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