Health and Child Protection
Key resources developed by Alliance member organizations and relevant guidance included in the Child Protection Minimum Standards.
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...
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...
A tip sheet about child protection actors’ contribution to health’s work, the latter sector's commitments to child protection, and tips and entry points for advocacy with health actors.
This document outlines some potential child safeguarding risks of health programmes, and gives suggestions on how to manage them to ensure children are as safe as possible.
Standard: All children have access to quality protective health services that reflect their views, ages and developmental needs.
Strengthening cross-sectoral collaboration is a strategic priority for the Alliance. This publication explores promising practices and missed opportunities in cooperation between Camp Coordination and Camp Management and Child Protection, and Health and Child Protection.
Talking with and listening to children are not done in the same way as with adults. Children have different communication needs based on their age, stage of development, and other individual characteristics. This Mini-Guide is primarily for child protection and health practitioners. It can also be...
National and global efforts to prevent, respond to, and recover from outbreaks are typically led by the health sector, even when interventions are multi-sectoral in nature. This Mini-Guide demonstrates how and why child protection considerations can and should be integrated into outbreak management...
This Mini-Guide is designed primarily for child protection practitioners and managers in settings impacted on by infectious disease outbreaks. It can also be used by coordinators of inter-agency groups or technical task forces, members of the social service workforce, and actors in health, mental...
This Mini-Guide is designed primarily for child protection practitioners and the social service workforce in settings impacted by infectious disease outbreaks. It provides an overview of why and how to adapt national and community-level child protection interventions during outbreaks.
The focus is...
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