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Guidance | Social Protection and Child Protection: How to Join Forces to Protect Children from the Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

To find the FINAL VERSION of this policy paper, CLICK HERE! The objective of this guidance is to lay out key arguments for close collaboration across Social Protection and Child Protection to address the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children and families towards reduction of adverse Child...

Speaker and Presenter Bios

This resource is a list of the summary biographies of the speakers and presenters of the 2020 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. * Note: For any additions or corrections, please email info@alliancecpha.org.

Child Protection Minimum Standards Implementation Toolkit

With the 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), we are well prepared to improve quality and accountability in children’s protection and well-being. But the CPMS itself is only the first step in improving our responses to protect children. Child...

Summary of Abstracts

This booklet contains a summary of abstracts that were submitted for the 2020 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action from October 5-16, 2020. The theme of this meeting is ‘Infectious Disease Outbreaks and the Protection of Children.’ The abstracts are organised by countries of...

Background Paper | 2.2 Billion Children: How Do We Ensure Their Protection and Well-being Amidst an Infectious Disease Outbreak?

COVID-19 is a public health crisis engulfing the world, confining and separating populations, and transforming lives. Rapidly imposed nation-wide containment, control, and mitigation strategies have included constraints on movement; regional and national-level border closures; procedures for...

2020 Annual Meeting Agenda

Please find the Agenda for the 2020 Annual Meeting attached below. You will can also find each day's individual agenda attached below.

2020 Annual Meeting | Participant's Checklist: How to Attend This Year’s Annual Meeting

Please find the Participant Checklist on How to Attend This Year’s Annual Meeting The checklist includes: Joining instructions to access Zoom sessions Steps to complete 3-5 working days before the start of the event How to prepare for this event: 5 Steps to complete before 5 October On the day Steps...

2020 Annual Meeting | Presenter's Checklist: How to Participate in the Annual Meeting 2020

Please find the Presenter's Checklist on How to Participate in the Annual Meeting 2020. The checklist inlcudes: Instructions to join Zoom sessions Steps to complete immediately How to prepare for this event: Five Steps to complete before 5 October On the day Steps to complete 15-30 minutes before...

Guidance | Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and INSPIRE Strategies

Today, one in four children lives in a country affected by conflict or disaster. Crises tend to last longer and become protracted, increasingly blurring the lines between humanitarian and longer-term development interventions. Preventing and responding to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence...

Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 9: Phoning for Help, the 10-9-8 Child Helpline in Nepal

More children than ever called the CWIN child helpline 10-9-8 when lockdown measures begin in Nepal. The helpline team at the country’s oldest child rights organisation was on the streets supporting children daily, even as movement restrictions barred all but essential workers from operating...

Guidance for Alternative Care Provision During COVID-19

This document provides practical guidance to actors in humanitarian and development contexts on the adaptations and considerations needed to support children who are either currently in alternative care or are going into an alternative care placement during the COVID-19 pandemic. It expands on the...

Webinar | CAAFAG and COVID-19

This webinar will focus on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on programmes for children associated with armed forces and groups. Through key messages and considerations related to these programmes, this webinar will bring together child protection professionals working in Mali, the Democratic...

COVID-19 Evidence Synthesis: Forcibly Displaced Children

From April 2020 to December 2021, the COVID-19 mapping team published the COVID-19 Evidence Synthesis series as a periodic digest of COVID-19 related resources (guidance, news, and academic articles), with the purpose to identify emerging child protection risks, responses, and apparent resource gaps...

Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 8: When “Stay at Home” Policies Become a Danger for some Girls and Boys

Many girls and boys face violence at the hands of the very people they need to trust most. Their parents and close relatives. The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have wiped out the income many families relied on to meet their basic needs. And that means overwhelmed adults and children have been...

Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 7: City Kids, Country Kids and the School Shutdown in Mongolia

Schools in Mongolia shut down in January 2020, long before many other countries considered nationwide school closures. Amarbayasgalan Erdenebileg from World Vision Mongolia tells Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator, what effect the school closure had on children in rural and urban...

Community-Level Child Protection Online Learning Series

This Online Learning Series follows Nina, a girl who has been displaced from her home, while she adjusts to her new setting and interacts with Child Protection actors. The 4-Part Video Series Covers: Introducing Standard 17: Community-level Approaches Reflecting on Current Community-level...

Video | Community-level CP in Humanitarian Action: The Need for a Shift in Mindset (Video 3)

This Online Learning Series follows Nina, a girl who has been displaced from her home, while she adjusts to her new setting and interacts with Child Protection actors. This is the 3rd video in a 4-Part Video Series: Introducing Standard 17: Community-level Approaches Reflecting on Current Community...

Video | Introducing Standard 17: Community-level Approaches (Video 1)

This Online Learning Series follows Nina, a girl who has been displaced from her home, while she adjusts to her new setting and interacts with Child Protection actors. This is the 1st video of a 4-Part Video Series: Introducing Standard 17: Community-level Approaches Reflecting on Current Community...

Video | Introducing the 2019 Edition of the CPMS

The CPMS Working Group is excited to present a new introductory video for the 2019 edition of the CPMS.

Video | Reflecting on Current Community-Level Programming (Video 2)

This Online Learning Series follows Nina, a girl who has been displaced from her home, while she adjusts to her new setting and interacts with Child Protection actors. This is the 2nd video in a 4-Part Video Series: Introducing Standard 17: Community-level Approaches Reflecting on Current Community...

Video | The Reflective Field Guide: Community-level Approaches to CP in Humanitarian Action (Video 4)

This Online Learning Series follows Nina, a girl who has been displaced from her home, while she adjusts to her new setting and interacts with Child Protection actors. This is the 4th and final video of a 4-Part Video Series: Introducing Standard 17: Community-level Approaches Reflecting on Current...

Webinar | The Need for Governments to Consult Child Protection Advisers when Loosening COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions

Advocacy Webinar sponsored by the Advocacy Working Group COVID-19 Advocacy Team (CAT): “The Need for Governments to Consult Child Protection Advisers when Loosening COVID-19 Lockdown Restrictions” In April, the Spanish government was about to relax confinement restrictions for children, which was...

Advocacy Brief | Prioritising the Safety of Children Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 has prompted widespread school closures and physical distancing measures, making online platforms and communities essential to maintaining a sense of normalcy. While children and their families are turning to digital solutions more than ever to support children’s learning, socialisation and...

Weighing up the Risks: School Closure and Re-opening under COVID-19

In Weighing up the risks: School closure and reopening under COVID-19 — When, Why, and What Impacts?, the Alliance and INEE have developed a balanced analysis to inform decisions based on holistic child-wellbeing as to when and why to re-open schools. This paper is meant to help decision makers...

Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 6: Considering Social Norms during COVID-19

Social norms govern how we behave in all the different communities that we move within and between. As the response to COVID-19 has altered how we live, the pandemic has influenced many norms around child rearing, from compulsory mask wearing, to physically-distanced grandparenting to hand washing...