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Background Paper | Child Protection in a Resource-Constrained World: From Challenges in Financing to Innovative Solutions
This background paper sets the scene for the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, examining how escalating humanitarian needs, acute funding cuts, system-wide reforms, and the erosion of international humanitarian and human rights law are reshaping the operating...
Call for Abstracts for the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is organising the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action over a virtual platform between 8 - 11 June 2026 (TBC). This year's meeting will focus on the crucial theme: "Child Protection in a Resource-Constrained World...
2023-2024 Annual Report | The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. This 2023-2024 Annual Report provides a summary of the Alliance’s activities and accomplishments guided...
New Survey: How Are Funding Cuts Affecting Children’s Protection?
One year after major global funding reductions, the Alliance is gathering updated evidence on how these ongoing cuts and humanitarian system changes are affecting children and child protection services. The survey takes 15–20 minutes, is anonymous, and is designed to capture experiences across...
Launch of Inter-Agency Guidance on Child Protection Case Management Data Categorisation
Child Protection Case Management (CPCM) is vital to supporting vulnerable children in humanitarian crises. Yet, without a common language for data, understanding risks, vulnerabilities, and service needs across contexts has been a major challenge. To address this, the Alliance has developed a new...
One Year On from the First Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children: A Call to Strengthen Commitment to Children Affected by Conflict and Crisis
It’s been one year since the first Global Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children, held in Bogotá in 2024 — a milestone moment that united governments and partners around a shared vision: A world where every child grows up safe and free from violence. Since then, there’s been...
Case Management Forms Video Series
Appropriate documentation by caseworkers is essential for effective and accountable child protection case management. The Case Management Forms — updated in 2024 — support consistent, ethical, and informed practice across humanitarian contexts. Each short video in this playlist explains the purpose...
New Case Management Forms Video Series!
Appropriate documentation by caseworkers is essential for effective and accountable child protection case management. The Case Management Forms — updated in 2024 — support consistent, ethical, and informed practice across humanitarian contexts. Each short video in this playlist explains the purpose...
Inter-agency Guidance on Child Protection Case Management Data Categorisation
Watch the Global Launch of the Guidance on Child Protection Case Management Data Categorisation here . Child Protection Case Management (CPCM) is a cornerstone of child protection in humanitarian settings. While numerous tools and guidelines exist, there is an opportunity to utilise CPCM data more...
Putting the Pieces Back Together: Centring Children and Their Protection in the Humanitarian Response in Gaza
With the ceasefire in Gaza and the scale-up of humanitarian assistance, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action calls for children’s protection to be placed at the centre of the response. This statement outlines urgent priorities to meet the needs of Gaza’s 1.1 million children —...
Report | CPHA Practitioners Survey - Capacity and Learning Needs
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (The Alliance), the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR), and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) conducted a joint survey on Capacities and Learning Needs in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action from May to August 2024. This joint...
Key Updates to the Advocacy Resource Pack: Humanitarian Reset, UN80 & the CAAC Agenda
Our Advocacy Resource Pack has been refreshed with several important updates and new materials: 🌍 Humanitarian Reset & UN80 View the latest updates, including reports and messaging on the UN's 80th anniversary reform process and the Humanitarian Reset, including on humanitarian and child protection...
Education and Child Protection - How to Use the New Online Guidance
In recent years, the Child Protection and Education in Emergencies sectors have been more intentional in working collaboratively to strengthen integrated and joint programming. INEE and the Alliance, working with a variety of members, have developed a Guidance Note to support implementation of joint...
Briefing Note: The Impact of UN80, the Humanitarian Reset, and Funding Cuts on the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Agenda
This note outlines how ongoing reforms, in particular the Humanitarian Reset and UN80 Initiative, underpinned by deepening funding cuts, risk undermining the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda. It provides recommendations to ensure that critical gains that have been made to address the...
The Alliance E-Learning Hub
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...
Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups Task Force - Offer of Support
This Offer of Support outlines how the Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG) Task Force coordinates humanitarian and development actors to strengthen quality programming that prevents recruitment, facilitates release, and responds to the needs of CAAFAG in emergencies and...
Take Our Survey & Help Improve How We Share Resources
The Alliance is conducting a short survey to better understand how practitioners and partners hear about our resources and updates. Your feedback will help us strengthen our communication channels so that information reaches you in the most useful and accessible ways. We kindly ask you to take a few...
Joint Statement on the International Day to Protect Education from Attack
On the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the Inter-agency for Education in Emergencies and the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action jointly condemn all forms of attacks on education and call for all parties to conflict to respect international humanitarian law, to...
Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Learning and Development Roadmap
The Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) Learning and Development (L&D) Roadmap provides a near-term strategy (through 2026) to strengthen practitioner capacity, safeguard institutional knowledge, and ensurethe delivery of quality child protection services in an era of shrinking resources...
Community-level Child Protection Task Force - Offer of Support
This Offer of Support outlines how the Community-level Child Protection (CCP) Task Force supports member agencies by providing the tools, resources, and skills needed to implement high-quality, community-level child protection programmes in humanitarian and fragile settings in an efficient and...
Learning & Development Working Group - Offer of Support
This Offer of Support outlines how the Learning & Development (L&D) Working Group encourages the growth and professionalisation of the sector, leading with strategic insights on defining priorities for capacity strengthening, partnerships with tertiary-level institutions, and the provision of...
The Unaccompanied and Separated Children Task Force - Offer of Support
This Offer of Support outlines how the Unaccompanied and Separated (UASC) Children Task Force provides technical materials and support to guide policy development, advocacy, communication, programming, and resource mobilisation in addressing all cases of family separation. It highlights the UASC...
Report | An Overview of the 2025 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
From the 3rd to the 5th of June, 841 participants from across the globe—including practitioners, donors, academics, policymakers, youth and child advocates, and community leaders—came together for the 2025 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, hosted by the Alliance for Child...
Blog Series | 2025 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action convened more than 800 participants around a vital theme: Protection of Children from the Ground Up – Enhancing Localised Approaches in Conflict and Crises. At a time when conflicts are intensifying, funding is...