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...
On World Children’s Day 2023, the Alliance is deeply concerned about the devastating consequences of increasing conflict, climate-induced emergencies, and natural disasters, on children around the world. As their communities are flooded, affected by severe drought, or turned into battlefields...
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...
UPDATE: Global Training of Facilitators on Engaging Community Volunteers in Case Management Postponed
Due to ongoing insecurity in the region, the Alliance has postponed the Training of Facilitators that was to be held from 4-8 in Beirut, Lebanon. The new training dates and location will be shared as soon as possible, with hopes to hold the training before the end of March 2024. The Alliance thanks...
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.
Webinar | Exploring the Impacts of the Climate Crisis on Child Protection in Humanitarian Contexts
Now and for decades to come, climate change will exacerbate child protection risks and threats to the safety and mental health of children, and further inequity through its intergenerational impacts. This online session explored the existing evidence of the connections between climate change and...
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.
Webinar | Launch of the Revised CPHA Competency Framework and Competency Development Guide
On November 8th at 2:00 pm CET, the Alliance hosted the global launch of the revised CPHA Competency Framework and the available tools to support its use by individual practitioners, teams and organisations. Our vision is that these new resources will support a competency-based approach to learning...
Global Protection Forum 2023 | Acting Before the Hour of Need: Prevention of Harm to Children in Humanitarian Settings
Each year, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC), including its Areas of Responsibility and its Strategic Advisory Group, organizes a Global Protection Forum with partners and field coordinators to review emerging challenges, learnings, and opportunities in relation to the protection of communities...
Introducing the Competency Development Guide as part of the CPHA Competency Framework!
The Learning & Development Working Group are excited to announce the release of the Competency Development Guide (CDG) as part of the CPHA Competency Framework! Developed with practitioners in mind, the CDG is a comprehensive resource designed to enhance your learning and development journey. The...
Join our session at the 2023 Global Protection Forum!
Each year, the Global Protection Cluster (GPC), including its Areas of Responsibility and its Strategic Advisory Group, organizes a Global Protection Forum with partners and field coordinators to review emerging challenges, learnings, and opportunities in relation to the protection of communities...
The Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) Task Force is thrilled to announce the release of the UASC Training of Trainers Learning Package! The course is designed to prepare participants to facilitate training on UASC. This training will reinforce participants’ understanding of the specific...
Training of Trainers | Unaccompanied and Separated Children
*Note: Please get in touch with the L&D Working Group ( learning@alliancecpha.org) if you are planning to using this package for feedback gathering purposes. Thank you. In 2018, the Alliance’s Unaccompanied and Separated Children (UASC) Task Force, led at the time by IOM and UNHCR, developed and...
Webinar | Primary Prevention: Preparedness, Needs Assessment, and Design
The Prevention Initiative is pleased to invite you to a webinar Primary Prevention: Preparedness, Needs Assessment, and Design on 5 September 2023 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm CET. This webinar will focus on highlighting considerations, actions and learnings to take when planning primary prevention...
The new Alliance E-Learning Hub is now live, and available here via the Kaya Connect platform! The Alliance E-Learning Hub is home to all of the Alliance’s learning and development resources. The Learners Area houses our self-paced learning content including the CPMS e-course in English, French and...
Call for Applications! Training of Facilitators on Engaging Community Volunteers in Case Management
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is offering a training opportunity on the recently launched inter-agency Community Volunteer Toolkit and Training Manual. With funding from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, this program will develop a cohort of facilitators equipped...
NEW RESOURCE! Guidance Note for Integrated Child Protection and Education Programming
New Guidance Note on Supporting Integrated Child Protection and Education Programming in Humanitarian Action! This guidance note by the Alliance and INEE aims to promote integration and collaboration across the two humanitarian sectors of education and child protection). It orients stakeholders in...
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...
Available now! Recordings & Drawings from the 2023 Annual Meeting
Want to revisit any of the sessions from the 2023 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action? Don’t worry! All the session recordings and live drawings are available to review and share across your networks for future learning, discussion and advocacy! To explore the recordings, the...
