The Alliance is committed to developing standards and materials covering all areas related to child protection in humanitarian action and generating technical guidelines for use by humanitarian actors. The Alliance is also the custodian of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, which is considered a companion to the Sphere standards.
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Child Protection Competency Framework for Camp Coordination and Camp Management Actors
The purpose of the Child Protection Competency Framework for CCCM Actors is to ensure that children’s protection and well-being are prioritised within the CCCM sector and in collaboration with Child Protection actors. The intention is that the competencies complement existing commitments within the...
Child Protection Competency Framework for Food Security Actors
The purpose of the Child Protection Competency Framework for Food Security Actors is to ensure that children’s protection and well-being are prioritised within the Food Security sector and in collaboration with Child Protection actors. The intention is that the competencies complement existing...
Child Protection Competency Framework for Health Actors
The purpose of the Child Protection Competency Framework for Health Actors is to ensure that children’s protection and well-being are prioritised within the Health sector and in collaboration with Child Protection actors. The intention is that the competencies complement existing commitments within...
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...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...
Background Paper | Protecting Children in Escalating Conflict and Crises: Armed Violence, Climate Shocks, and Displacement
This paper aims to support the upcoming discussions during the 2024 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Based upon over 300 responses to the Annual Meeting Theme Survey, this year’s theme focuses on protecting children in escalating conflict and crises. For more information...
The Unprotected: Overview and Technical Annex on the Impact of Humanitarian Crises on Children in 2023
Explore the Dedicated Webpage here! As we reflect on 2023 and embark on a new year, the Alliance is deeply concerned about the devastating consequences of increasing armed conflict, climate-induced emergencies, and disasters associated with natural hazards on children around the world. In 2023, the...
Alliance Pledges | Global Refugee Forum 2023
At the Global Refuge Forum 2023, the Alliance is proud to announce two joint-pledges to make a lasting impact on the lives of children affected by refugee and displacement situations, their families and communities. 1) Supporting Integrated Approaches to Child Protection and Education in Refugee and...
«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...
The Centrality of Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Action – An Introduction
The centrality of children and their protection in humanitarian action is a shared responsibility, to ensure the entire humanitarian system is actively and consciously engaged in realising broader child rights as well as children’s rights to protection in each step of humanitarian action. On World...
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...
Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality Framework
A tool to identify potential barriers to accessing services in humanitarian settings.
Collaboration Tip Sheet: Health
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.
Working Across Sectors Three Modalities
A description of the three ways of working across humanitarian sectors.
Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
A comic strip describing risks in humanitarian settings and the meaning and purpose of child protection in humanitarian action.
Child Protection Responsibilities of Humanitarian Actors
A comic strip describing key responsibilities of child protection actors and of all humanitarian actors.
Child Protection Risks in Emergencies
A comic strip describing child protection risks in humanitarian settings.
Collaboration Tip Sheet: Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM)
A tip sheet about child protection actors’ contribution to CCCM’s work, CCCM’s commitments to child protection, and tips and entry points for advocacy with CCCM actors.
Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Competency Framework
The revised CPHA Competency Framework is now available. This new version is more closely aligned with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), and reflects our better understanding of the competencies required to work effectively with other sectors. The format and...
Technical Note | Education Interventions for Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups
The ‘Education interventions for CAAFAG’ Technical Note is based upon an extensive desk study, key informant inter- views with 23 practitioners from a range of roles, including in Child Protection and Education, as well as technical in- put from the CAAFAG Task Force and CAAFAG Education technical...
Report | An Overview of the 2023 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Thank you to everyone who attended the 2023 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. This year’s annual meeting hosted 950 participants from 386 unique organisations representing 147 countries and territories across the world. As well as two in-person Participation Hubs in Nigeria...
Alliance Pledges | Oslo Conference for Protecting Children in Armed Conflict
At the Oslo Conference for Protecting Children in Armed Conflict held on 5-6 June 2023, governments, UN agencies, and civil society, including networks and non-governmental organisations, were invited to make specific commitments to protect children in armed conflict. In consultation with our...
Technical Note | Livelihood Interventions for Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups
Children associated with armed forces and armed groups (CAAFAG) are often recruited and used due to economic risk factors. Providing livelihood interventions to CAAFAG and vulnerable children can be used to prevent children from being recruited and used by armed forces and armed groups and may...
Advocacy Template Tools
Please find the Advocacy Template Tools used during Session 18: How to do local advocacy for CAAFAG from the 2023 Annual Meeting. 1. Advocacy Strategy Template: To help design your strategy – including objectives, targets and tactics 2. Risk Assessment Template: To help assess when to do public /...