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
Child Protection Minimum Standards Accountability to Children Toolkit
Since their launch in 2012, a broad range of humanitarian actors now work with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the CPMS) to better protect children facing violence, abuse, exploitation or neglect in emergencies around the world. Through the CPMS and our 10 sector-wide principles, we have strengthened coordination with each other to ensure quality child protection...
CPHA-CPMS Learning Package
Explore the CPMS-CPHA Learning Package in Arabic, Spanish, and Turkish! This learning package has been developed by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance). It replaces the Child Protection in Emergencies Face-to-Face Training Package. The package is designed to help build entry to mid-level skills and knowledge for child protection in humanitarian contexts. The...
Child Protection Competency Framework for Food Security Actors
Children are disproportionately affected by humanitarian crises. They are a distinct group from adults, with unique needs and capacities that vary by age, gender, ability, legal status, and other individual characteristics. The centrality of children and their protection in humanitarian action is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian sectors, actors, staff and volunteers. Advancing children...
Child Protection Competency Framework for Camp Coordination and Camp Management Actors
Children are disproportionately affected by humanitarian crises. They are a distinct group from adults, with unique needs and capacities that vary by age, gender, ability, legal status, and other individual characteristics. The centrality of children and their protection in humanitarian action is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian sectors, actors, staff and volunteers. Advancing children...
Working Across Sectors Child Protection Competency Frameworks
Children are disproportionately affected by humanitarian crises. They are a distinct group from adults, with unique needs and capacities that vary by age, gender, ability, legal status, and other individual characteristics. The centrality of children and their protection in humanitarian action is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian sectors, actors, staff and volunteers. Advancing children...
Child Protection Competency Framework for Health Actors
Children are disproportionately affected by humanitarian crises. They are a distinct group from adults, with unique needs and capacities that vary by age, gender, ability, legal status, and other individual characteristics. The centrality of children and their protection in humanitarian action is a shared responsibility of all humanitarian sectors, actors, staff and volunteers. Advancing children...
«I Am Mariam» Illustrated Storybook and Posters
«I am Mariam» is an illustrated storybook about a young girl forced to flee her violence-torn hometown. It reflects the lives of many forcibly displaced children, as its balance of hard-hitting realities and small acts of kindness comes from consultations with conflict-affected children. Meant for children 5-12 years old, the storybook is accompanied by eight posters summarizing its key messages...
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...
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...
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
