Nepal Flood Response: Key Child Protection Resources

The following resources have been compiled to support child protection in the response to the floods in Nepal, with guidance and tools covering key areas including emergency response, family separation and alternative care, cross-sectoral collaboration, and climate-related disasters.

Child Protection: 

Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action provide a key reference for strengthening the quality and accountability of child protection programming in humanitarian responses.

Resources particularly relevant to the flood response include:

• CPMS Standard 7: Dangers and Injuries – Video
• CPMS Pillar 4: Working Across Sectors
• CPMS Pillar 4: Camp Management and Child Protection

CPHA Frontliner’s Getting Started Learning Package
The Frontliner’s Getting Started Learning Package supports the rapid onboarding of frontline child protection workers following the onset of a humanitarian crisis, including staff and volunteers who may be new to child protection in humanitarian action.

Family Separation and Alternative Care: 

• Alternative Care in Emergencies Toolkit (2013)
• Unaccompanied and Separated Children Toolkit and Handbook
• Building Safe Spaces for the Community

Child Protection in Floods & Climate-Related Disasters:

• South and Southeast Asia Flood Response Resources
• We Need to do Better: Climate-related Disasters and Child Protection in Southeast Asia
• Child Protection in Disasters and Emergencies - Public Awareness and Public Education Messages

This resource collection will be continually updated as the response evolves and additional relevant guidance and tools become available.

If you know of a resource that would be valuable to child protection practitioners responding to the floods in Nepal, please contact info@alliancecpha.org.