Clinic Sessions on Primary Prevention

What is Primary Prevention? 

Primary prevention seeks to prevent harm before it can occur by addressing the root causes of harm to children within a population or community. A successful primary preventive approach will reduce the strain on response services by reducing the number of families and children in need. As humanitarian actors, we have an ethical responsibility to prevent harm before it occurs, and investment in primary prevention is essential to ensuring accountability to children and the centrality of protection within humanitarian contexts. 

What is the Primary Prevention Framework? 
The Primary Prevention Framework provides guidance for humanitarian workers on the principles of a preventive approach and the key steps to take across the program management cycle when adopting a primary preventive approach.

Who are these Clinic Session For? 

• Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) practitioners
• Members of the Alliance for CPHA
• Anyone interested in prevention!

What is a Clinic Session on Primary Prevention? 
We have created Clinics that are informal, semi-structured exchanges led by Technical Advisors to discuss challenges, share new resources, provide a platform for peer-to-peer connections, and share success stories. 

The Clinics are designed to provide information about a specific topic (approx. 30 mins); then open exchange and discussion amongst participants (approx. 30 mins). 

We have grouped the Clinic Sessions in two blocks to reflect connected topics - the first two sessions will be held on Wednesday 4 and 11 December 2024 which will draw heavily from the experiences and lessons learnt during the piloting of the Framework in Niger and South Sudan. The second series will focus on monitoring and evaluating, advocacy and working across sectors (4 consecutive weeks starting late January 2025).  

Clinic Sessions are one hour and held on Wednesdays over a two-week period: 

1. 4 December at 1400 CET: Primary Prevention Framework in Action: Lessons Learnt (English)
2. 11 December at 1400 CET: Designing Primary Preventive Approaches: Theory of Change (English)

Please click here to register for the first block! Registering will provide you with access to both sessions. 

We are working to provide these sessions in other languages (to be confirmed).