Foundational Areas of Work
Across humanitarian action, there are established best practices to ensure programs are context-specific, culturally responsive, effective, and efficient. Much of that is related to the process stakeholders take to determine the most effective and responsive programming, build relationships and work in a coordinated way with others to support families, schools / learning environments, and communities. Those practices and programming evolve as the context and needs of communities change across the life of a response.
The protection of affected populations and provisions of basic services are the responsibilities of a country’s government. Education and Protection Clusters/coordination mechanisms must consider how their activities strengthen and support the government’s immediate and long-term response abilities.
This Terms of Reference (ToR) outlines how Education Cluster partners will conduct consultations with children as part of a broader needs assessment. It provides guidance on engaging girls and boys through safe, ethical, and participatory methods to better understand their experiences, education...
This training presentation provides practical guidance for enumerators facilitating child participation in Joint Education Needs Assessments (JENAs). It covers the principles of meaningful and ethical child participation, safeguarding and PSEA obligations, informed consent and assent, safe...
The purpose of this Quick Guide is to support Education Cluster Teams and Cluster partners wishing to integrate children’s participation and chid participation processes into coordinated needs assessments and analyses, particularly within Joint Education Needs Assessments (JENA). In addition to JENA...
By the end of the session, students should be able to:Name five rights that children have.Describe Luminos Fund’s policy on corporal punishment in the classroom, and describe what they should do if they encounter corporal punishment in the classroom.Describe who a safe adult is and name a safe adult...
The Nine Basic Requirements for Meaningful and Ethical Child Participation is a key tool for ensuring quality child participation in any initiative with children. They are built on a foundation of what children have shared with adults over many years and we are truly thrilled to share this latest...
The Alliance is committed to capacity strengthening for the child protection in humanitarian action workforce. Together, we develop quality learning materials and deliver them through face to face, online and blended learning opportunities.The Alliance E-Learning Hub is home to all of the Alliance’s...
This is the second booklet in a toolkit comprised of 6 booklets. The toolkit provides a conceptual framework for measuring children’s participation, together with guidance on how to undertake monitoring and evaluation and practical tools that can help you gather the information you need. It can be...
Throughout the world, more than 600 million young people live in fragile and conflictaffected contexts today. They are among the most affected by the multiple and often interlinked forms of violence – from political violence and criminal gangs to organized crime and terrorist attacks that plague...
This course contributes to building your capacity to promote, design and implement at-scale programming for meaningful adolescent participation and civic engagement. The course provides you with learning on the rational and conceptual underpinning of adolescent participation, the five key strategies...
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, children and youth were facing unprecedented challenges caused by quarantine measures and school closure policies in nearly every country in the world.At the same time these challenges emerged, child-focused organizations found it harder than ever to...
In early 2022, Elevate Children Funders’ Group commissioned a research study to better understand child and youth participatory models used by funders. The resulting Funders’ Toolkit for Child and Youth Participation, co-created by an amazing group of young leaders, and with the guidance of an...
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