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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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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Child Labour Tool | Psychosocial Impacts of Child Labour
Child labour can seriously affect children’s social and emotional development and wellbeing. Different aspects of children’s work can cause harm to their psychosocial wellbeing. The impact of psychosocial hazards can cause significant stress, and if they are not mitigated, children can develop...
Safety planning is part of the case management process and is a tool for both the child and the case worker to keep the child safe from harm. During the initial assessment of the child’s situation, the case worker will have determined if the child is safe or not. If during the assessment it is...
A number of signals can indicate that children are involved in child labour or the worst forms of child labour (WFCL) such as forms of slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, or trafficking. A child can display one or multiple signs. Sometimes humanitarian actors may suspect that something is not...
Child Labour Tool | Supporting At-Risk Children and Empowering Girls
This tool provides additional guidance on promoting inclusive humanitarian action with and for working children and adolescents who are in or at risk of child labour/WFCL, with specific attention to girls.
Child Labour Tool | What We Need to Know About Child Labour
This tool – What We Need To Know (WWNK) – presents the pieces of information that we need to know about the child labour situation, in order to plan for a strategic response. It provides a framework for situation analysis, including secondary data review (SDR) and primary data collection.
Report | Capacity Needs and Gaps Analysis: CAAFAG Programming
The Alliance CAAFAG Task Force is implementing an interagency project with the aim to strengthen the capacities of field practitioners to design and implement programs related to the prevention of child recruitment, the release and the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and armed...
Child Labour Case Study | Addressing Child Labour at Distribution Sites in Gaza
This case study describes how UNRWA addressed child labour issues at distribution centres in Gaza through an integrated education, economic-strengthening and protection project.
Child Labour Case Study | Child-Centred Multi-Risk Assessments and Child Labour
In disaster, conflict and other crisis situations children are often exposed to new risks or exacerbated threats, such as physical violence, family separation and child labour. While child protection actors place a strong focus on understanding and mitigating the numerous child protection risks...
Child Labour Case Study | Conditional Cash Programming to Address Child Labour and Promote Education in Turkey
This case study describes how conditional cash assistance was used to promote education as an alternative for child labour among Syrian refugee children and vulnerable Turkish children in Şanlıurfa province in Turkey.
Child Labour Case Study | Integrated Child Protection, WASH and Cash-for-Work to Address Child Labour Among Adolescents in Syria
This case study describes how an integrated protection, WASH and case assistance project aimed to prevent and respond to child labour among adolescents in Syria.
Child Labour Case Study | Integrating Child Labour into Humanitarian Needs Assessments
This case study describes (i) how child labour has been integrated into (multi-sector) humanitarian needs assessments in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and the Philippines and (ii) the main challenges and lessons learned.
