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Children & Young People during COVID-19: How were they impacted & what we can learn for the future?
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. In response, governments closed schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 1.6 billion learners across 169 countries were impacted by school closures and 1.3 billion learners had no internet connection at home...
Call for Applications! Online Training for Primary Prevention Focal Points
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, with support from USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, is offering a learning opportunity on the Primary Prevention Framework. The course aims to prepare child protection focal points who intend to introduce and disseminate the Primary...
Joint Submission on General Comment 26 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Children’s Rights and the Environment with a Special Focus on Climate Change
This submission has been prepared by the Advocacy Working Group (AWG). Several AWG members formed a sub-group to discuss the forthcoming General Comment 26 on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change, from the perspective of child protection in humanitarian...
Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit | Cash and Voucher Assistance and Child Protection for Adolescents
The Cash and Voucher Assistance and Child Protection for Adolescents: A Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit is a resource for actors working in Monitoring and Evaluation, CVA (across sectors), child protection and adolescents programming. The toolkit is divided into two parts: Part 1 is comprised of...
CPHA Learner Profiles
What are Learner Profiles? Learner Profiles are fictional characters that we create to represent a stakeholder group. Specifically, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action's learner profiles consider the audience of the Alliance’s work, from the perspective of learning and...
CPMS Pillar 4: Standards to Work Across Sectors
Millions of children are facing increasingly complex humanitarian crises. Helping them cope and recover takes a wide range of support, including specialised child protection interventions. But no single sector has all of the knowledge, skills and resources to fully prevent risks, respond to children...
CPMS Standard 21: Food Security and Child Protection
The importance of collaboration between Child Protection and Food Security actors in humanitarian settings cannot be overestimated. For instance, jointly planned programs in the same locations can help mitigate the impact of food insecurity on children’s protection. This collaboration works both...
CPMS Standard 23: Education and Child Protection
Children are amongst the most vulnerable in humanitarian crises. Providing them with a safe passage to school and a protected place to receive an education is critical to their current and future well-being. In humanitarian settings, there are many links between Child Protection and Education...
Red Hand Day 2023
Today, 12th February is ‘Red Hand Day’, the international awareness day that aims to remind the international community to strengthen efforts to end the recruitment and use of children in armed conflicts. Although efforts to stop children from being recruited and used by armed actors remain high in...
CPMS Standard 24: Health and Child Protection
Standard: All children have access to quality protective health services that reflect their views, ages and developmental needs.
CPMS Standard 25: Nutrition and Child Protection
Standard: Children and their caregivers, especially pregnant and lactating women and girls, have access to safe, adequate and appropriate nutrition services.
CPMS Standard 26: WASH and Child Protection
Standard: All children have access to appropriate water, sanitation and hygiene services that support their dignity and minimise risks of physical and sexual violence and exploitation
CPMS Standard 27: Shelter and Settlement and Child Protection
Standard: All children and their caregivers have appropriate shelter that meets their basic needs, including safety, protection and accessibility.
CPMS Standard 28: Camp Management and Child Protection
Standard: Camp management activities address the needs and protection concerns of children affected by forced displacement.
CPMS Standard 21: Food security and child protection
Standard: All children affected by humanitarian crises live in food secure environments that mitigate and respond to child protection risks.
CPMS Standard 22: Livelihoods and child protection
Standard: Caregivers and working-age children have access to adequate support to strengthen their livelihoods.
CPMS Standard 23: Education and Child Protection
Standard: All children have access to quality education that is protective and inclusive and that promotes dignity and participation throughout all essential activities.
CPMS Pillar 4 Standards to work across sectors
An introduction to the Child Protection Minimum Standards Pillar 4: Standards to work across sectors.
New Video Series! Primary Prevention for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Watch this short video series to learn about Primary Prevention and the importance of prevention for the protection of children in humanitarian action. Videos series includes: What is Prevention? - Learn about the three levels of prevention in child protection in humanitarian action. Why Invest in...
CPHA Learning Resource Mapping
The Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Learning Resource Mapping supports CPHA sectoral L&D efforts in different ways: Firstly, it allows us to gather a better understanding of gaps in the learning opportunities offer, and guide recommendations for further investments Secondly, if kept updated...
Guidance Note | Supporting Integrated Child Protection and Education Programming in Humanitarian Action
This Guidance Note supports the Alliance and INEE’s CPHA-EiE Joint Initiative by orienting both sectors to opportunities for program integration. Through collaboration, both sectors aim to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goal 4 to provide/ensure “inclusive and equitable quality education and...
Working Together
How do we, as humanitarian workers, effectively collaborate to improve children’s protection and well-being? This Inter-Sectoral Framework aims to serve as a collective steer for doing just that: centring children and their protection needs across all programs, sectors, and responses. It has been co...
CPMS Slide Deck
These are ready-to-use PowerPoint presentations to help you advocate for implementing the Child Protection Minimum Standards in your organization and build its capacity to do so. They cover the CPMS Principles, its four Pillars and the 28 Standards. They also exist in Arabic, French and Spanish.
MOOC | Programme Design for Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG)
This six-week (3h per week) course from the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action will introduce the key concepts of programme design for CAAFAG and contextualise your design within the legal and normative framework. The course is self-paced and sponsored for all field practitioners...