Child protection in Humanitarian Action and Education in Emergencies

Welcome to the collaborative initiative between the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). This joint effort aims to enhance the wellbeing of children and youth affected by emergencies, crises, and forced displacement through integrated programming. Our work focuses on fostering closer collaboration across all stages of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle. For more information, contact us at: mark.chapple@alliancecpha.org.

Use the buttons below to explore tailored guidance, tools, and resources to help you integrate CPHA and EiE programming in your context.

Key Resources

Training & Development

Implementation Guidance

Support for Advocacy

Reports & Evidence

INEE Minimum Standards

Child Protection Minimum Standards

Cross Sector Collaboration - Overview

CPHA and Education in Emergencies (EiE) are natural partners in humanitarian response. The two sectors have much in common: both are child-focused, are priorities for affected populations, and, through collaboration, they reinforce each other’s sectoral outcomes. Mainstreamed, joint, and integrated programming across CPHA & EiE add value to affected populations, service providers, and donors. Working together can create more efficient, better-targeted, and more effective programs that result in improved outcomes for children and young people (Alliance and INEE, 2021).

The Alliance and INEE are committed to strengthening the intersection between child protection and education during humanitarian crises at all levels of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle and at every stage in a response. The Joint Pledge at the Global Refugee Forum 2023 outlines three areas of shared responsibility and collaboration. They are:

What impact do we want to have with integrated programming:

Improve child well-being and healthy development
Improve learning outcomes through holistic support to well-being
Prevent and mitigate certain protection risks while improving access, retention, and success in learning
Prevent children “slipping through cracks” between sectors by centering the child in multi-sectoral, integrated programming
Contribute to efforts to transform humanitarian delivery, and support the localisation agenda for stronger systems and communities in crises

This online resource helps users navigate the key resources that have been developed to support joint and integrated programming, collects tools, good practice examples and case studies, and provides guidance for advocacy and external engagement.

Supporting Change

This page helps users navigate the key resources and tools available to support joint and integrated programming, including good practice examples and case studies, and provides guidance for advocacy and external engagement. Sections are organised around key types of resources and includes an expanded collection of resources aligning with the Supporting Integrated Child Protection and Education in Humanitarian Action Guidance Note programmatic areas of work. The Guidance Note is organised by programmatic areas. Programmatic areas align with the domains and standards from both the Alliance’s Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) and INEE’s Minimum Standards for Education (INEE MS).

Each section of the Guidance Note includes:

Overview: A shared vision for integrated child protection and education programming in humanitarian responses.
Guiding Questions: Initial questions to initiate discussions between the two sectors. Questions are organised against the Socio-Ecological Model. Your discussions are guided by the specific circumstances of your context.
Indicators: Sample list of indicators to determine impact, output, or outcome. MEAL plans must fit the specific objectives and context of each intervention. Many national line ministries and authorities have standard indicators which should be referenced when possible.
Resources: Key resources that support integrated programs selected through a consultative process with sector practitioners. Adaptation or contextualisation of resources to the realities of communities, systems, and structures impacted by crisis is essential.
Examples: Spotlight examples of integrated programming in practice.

Please refer to the Guidance Note for a more comprehensive overview of challenges, opportunities, and approaches to respond to each of the programmatic areas listed below.

Looking for something specific? Use the bulleted lists to filter your search. Each area can be filtered for language with the most common languages being Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.