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Technical Note BRIEF | Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic v.2
The Alliance is excited to present this Technical Note BRIEF to give child protection actors an overview - including key questions and considerations - of version 2 of the Technical Note on Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The aim of the Technical Note was to support child...
COVID-19 Evidence Synthesis: Child Participation
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...
Webinar | Cash Interventions and Child Protection Outcomes for Children
The Cash and Child Protection Task Force is hosting a webinar, featuring a child protection cash intervention programme. Street Child is a child centered organisation that specialises in integrated solutions to education and protection for children in chronically poor or conflict and crisis affected...
A Review of Child Protection Caseworkers Recruitment and Capacity-building in Humanitarian Settings
Child protection case management in humanitarian settings requires caseworkers with the knowledge and skills to support vulnerable children and families during distressing events and in environments with limited services. In acknowledgement of those challenges, this review was conducted to provide...
Webinar | Adapting Family Strengthening Programs and Approaches to COVID-19
Please join us for a webinar and discussion on Family Strengthening in the time of COVID-19: Programmatic Adaptations to Support Families in Need. This webinar will include presentations on program adaptations from Family Strengthening Task Force member organisations and open discussion on...Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 5: Caring for Young Children (Part 1)
When the coronavirus lockdown has shrunk your world to the four walls around you, Joan Lombardi, the director of Early Opportunities, shares about caring for young children under lockdown. This is part one of a two-part interview with Joan Lombardi on the Protected! Podcast. On the podcast this week...
Webinar | COVID-19: Protection Children from Violence, Abuse, and Neglect in the Home
This webinar examines the technical note on protecting children from violence, abuse, and neglect in the home as countries implement lockdowns and stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of COVID-19. Protective prevention and response strategies are outlined with the goal of strengthening the...
COVID-19 Evidence Synthesis: Impact of School Closures on Children's Protection and Well-being
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 4: Impact of COVID-19 on Child Labour Programming in Myanmar
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed any famailies into difficulties, which has increased the risk of chidlren being lured or forced into different types of work that are hazardous for thier health, wellbeing and development. In this podcast, Hani Mansourian from the Alliance for Child Protection in...
Webinar | COVID-19 and Child Labour
Join experts and practitioners from different organisations across the globe to discuss ‘COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!’, the theme of the 2020 World Day Against Child Labour. Participants will hear an update based on the Alliance for Child Protection in...
COVID-19 Synthesis | Evidence Briefs
Overview: The COVID-19 Synthesis series is 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. Each synthesis analyses a different topic related to child...
Guidance | Children, Isolation and Quarantine: Preventing Family Separation and Other Child Protection Considerations during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Drafted in collaboration with WHO, this UNICEF document on “Children, Isolation and Quarantine: Preventing Family Separation and Other Child Protection Considerations during the COVID-19 Pandemic” aims at assisting Child Protection and Health actors to preserve family unity as the pandemic continues...
Technical Note: Adaptation of Child Protection Case Management to the COVID-19 Pandemic - Version 3
Child Protection Case Management (CP CM) is part of the essential services that cannot be stopped suddenly, but which requires adaptation to the new emergency. This technical note builds on existing response action from several countries and case management task force agencies. It provides...
Webinar | Child Helplines and the Protection of Children during the COVID-19 Pandemic
As a response to the COVID-19 crisis, child protection actors and service providers are exploring how they can continue to provide support to children and families remotely through the use of technology. This includes child helplines. The Alliance, the CP AoR, Child Helpline International and UNICEF...Podcast | Protected! Podcast: Ep 3: Protecting Refugee Children in East Africa
Governments shut borders quickly in eastern Africa as the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 loomed. That left child protection actors with reduced access to the refugee children they support and the children themselves are facing more risks. Elsa Laurin, the Senior Child Protection Officer for the...Webinar Recordings | COVID-19 and Child Protection
The Alliance is proud to present our Child Protection and COVID-19 Webinar Playlist, including all Alliance webinar recordings related to the Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic and related annexes. Each recording has been edited and includes an introduction, list...
COVID-19 Evidence Synthesis: Child Labour
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...
Technical Note: Child Helplines and the Protection of Children during the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a response to the COVID-19 crisis, child protection actors and service providers are exploring how they can continue to provide support to children, families and communities remotely through the use of technology. This includes child helplines, which, over the last decade, have become...
Technical Note: Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic (v.2)
The Alliance has now produced a version 2 of the technical note on the protection of children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aim of this brief: To support child protection practitioners and policy makers in putting the child’s safety and well-being at the centre of their COVID-19 pandemic response...
Key Messages and Considerations for Programming for Children Associated with Armed Forces or Armed Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic, v.1
Every day a child remains with an armed force or group, he or she is at risk of physical, psychological and sexual violence, and even death. Prevention of recruitment; separating children from armed forces and groups; responding to their needs; and supporting the reintegration process are all life...
Webinar | Working with Communities to Keep Children Safe in Times of COVID-19
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 can disrupt the protective environments in which children grow and develop. Disruptions to families, friendships, daily routines and the wider community can have negative consequences for children’s well-being, development and protection. COVID-19 also has a direct...Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 2: Transitioning to a Remote Adolescent Programme in Lebanon
Have you ever wondered what happens when child protection actors have zero face-to-face access to the children and families they support? Plan International Lebanon faced that exact problem in March 2020, when the government imposed a curfew and state of emergency across the country. Elissa...Podcast | Protected! Podcast Ep 1: Prioritising MHPSS and CP Workers during COVID-19
This podcast is for all child protection actors everywhere. Wherever you are, hit the Play button now! Dr Zeinab Hijazi, the mental health and psychosocial support expert from UNICEF talks to Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator about the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on mental...
Working with Communities to Keep Children Safe, v.1.1
Infectious diseases like COVID-19 can disrupt the protective environments in which children grow and develop. Disruptions to families, friendships, daily routines and the wider community can have negative consequences for children’s well-being, development and protection. COVID-19 also has a direct...