Technical Materials

The Alliance is committed to developing standards and materials covering all areas related to child protection in humanitarian action and generating technical guidelines for use by humanitarian actors. The Alliance is also the custodian of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, which is considered a companion to the Sphere standards.

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REPORT | MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN IN HUMANITARIAN SETTINGS: AN UPDATED REVIEW OF EVIDENCE AND PRACTICE, 2020

This 2020 UNICEF review of evidence and practice to support the implementation of MHPSS in humanitarian settings has been updated from 2015, and now includes evidence from 2015-2020, and additional evidence on child and community participation. The 2020 review is based on the socio-ecological model...
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Summary | Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action

The Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action offers a strong global commitment to addressing child labour in humanitarian action. It was developed by the global Child Labour Task Force, under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action...
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Blog Post | No Education, No Protection

In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, UNESCO estimated that more than 1.5 billion students and youth – nearly 90% worldwide – were out of school, disrupting the academic progress and social and emotional development that education provides. For nearly a year now, with...
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Evidence Paper | No Education, No Protection: What school closures under COVID-19 mean for children and young people in crisis-affected contexts

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented levels of school closures, affecting up to 90% of learners globally. While it was deemed necessary to close schools and other education institutions to reduce transmission of COVID-19, the paper shows how this has clearly had negative consequences...
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Guidance | Understanding Risk and Protective Factors in Humanitarian Crises: Towards a Preventive Approach to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

Recognizing the strategic importance of improving evidence-based approaches to preventing child protection issues, this report was developed to inform the establishment of a measurement framework for prevention programming in support of the Alliance-led Prevention Initiative. While child protection...
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Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Case Studies

Find ALL 34 Case Studies in the Inter-Agency Toolkit on Preventing and Responding to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action!
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Inter-Agency Toolkit | Child Labour Tools

Find ALL 19 Practical Tools in the Inter-Agency Toolkit on Preventing and Responding to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action!
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Working Across Sectors to Promote Children's Protection and Well-Being

Working across sectors to promote children's protection and well-being is a priority for the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. The 2019 Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) also provides focused standards and guidance to better work across sectors...
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Position Paper | Collaboration Across Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and Education in Emergencies

In this paper, the The Alliance and INEE set out the evidence supporting collaboration and integration between the sectors, providing a rationale for cross-sector work grounded in child well-being and holistic development. The paper includes a summary of challenges and opportunities, and draws out...
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Report | Action Points on the Protection of Children and Infectious Disease Outbreaks from the 2020 Annual Meeting on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

To find the special video presentation by the Alliance COVID-19 Focal Point Team and learn about the six critical actions, click here! The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) held the 2020 Annual Meeting on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action over a virtual...
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Inter-Agency Child Labour Toolkit | Preventing and Responding to Child Labour in Humanitarian Action

Every day, millions of children worldwide experience the consequences of violent conflicts, climate change, disasters and epidemics. In times of crisis, when people are forced to flee their homes, schools close, jobs are lost and the availability of services decreases, child labour becomes a coping...
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Contextualizing and Measuring Child Well-Being in Humanitarian Action

The Alliance AME Working Group is excited to present the Child Well-Being Contextualization Guide! The package of child well-being resources includes: 1) Defining and Measuring Child Well-Being in Humanitarian Action: A Contextualization Guide Ensuring children’s well-being is generally recognized...
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Policy Paper Summary | Social Protection and Child Protection: Working Together to Protect Children from the Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond

Find this short summary for the policy paper, Social Protection and Child Protection: Working Together to Protect Children from the Impact of COVID-19 and Beyond, coordinated by the Alliance and co-sponored by UNICEF and Save the Children! This summary highlights the key arguments from the policy...
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Child Labour Tool | Addressing Child Labour During Infectious Disease Outbreaks

This is guidance for practitioners who are working in contexts of infectious disease outbreaks. It outlines the child labour risks associated with infectious disease outbreaks and the recommended actions to prevent and respond to child labour. This guidance draws upon lessons learned from a variety...
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Child Labour Tool | Age Verification for Working Children

Where children may be engaged in vocational training, livelihoods or decent work programmes, humanitarian actors will need to verify the age of the child, to ensure that children are old enough to participate. Always follow existing legislation and guidelines on age verification and certification...
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Child Labour Tool | Body Safety

In addition to regular and consistent safety assessments, case workers can hold separate sessions with children and caregivers on body safety and safety planning. This can help children to communicate their boundaries and respond to unsafe situations. These sessions can help children to feel more...
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Child Labour Tool | Child Labour in Refugee, Internally Displaced and Migrant Settings

This tool provides an overview of risks for and key actions to protect children in refugee, internally displaced and migrant populations.
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Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Key Messages

The following key messages can be used and adapted to a variety of humanitarian contexts. Where it is safe and possible to do so, consult with children in child labour as well as with families and communities during the development of key messages for differ- ent target groups.
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Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Risk and Protective Factors

This overview presents common risk and protective factors in humanitarian settings. It is important to identify risk and protective factors in the specific context to better understand what factors leads to child labour.
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Child Labour Tool | Child Labour Risk Matrix

A risk matrix is a case management tool that caseworkers and their supervisors can use during the assessment of an individual child in or at risk of child labour. The risk matrix can help determine the level of risk a child faces and subsequently help prioritise actions to take.
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Child Labour Tool | Children Are Not Little Adults

Many people assume that the work children do is not particularly dangerous, or that workplace dangers and hazards for adults affect children in the same way. However, children are affected more significantly by the same hazards because their bodies are still growing and they are still developing...
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Child Labour Tool | Disability and Child Labour

The linkages between disability and child labour are complex, and clear evidence on their causal relationship is still hard to come by – in particular the question of whether children with disabilities are more vulnerable to entering child labour often remains unanswered. However, analysis of other...
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Child Labour Tool | Guidance for Child Protection Case Workers

This is guidance for caseworkers and case managers who provide child protection case management services for children in child labour, including the worst forms of child labour. This guidance complements the key actions outlined in Child Protection Minimum Standard 18 and global case management...
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Child Labour Tool | Measuring Child Labour in Humanitarian Settings

Child labour data can be hard to come by, especially when it comes to the worst forms of child labour. At the same time, this data is essential to inform strategic decision-making and response planning in humanitarian settings. This checklist contains key actions to improve measurement of child...
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Child Labour Tool | Preventing Child Labour Risk Factors Related to Humanitarian Action

SAMPLE RISK ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS: Do vulnerable groups targeted by the intervention include working children and their families? Do children already work in the areas where the intervention hopes to have an effect, e.g. geographical, trade, thematic or subject areas? Are children who are under the...
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