Technical Materials

Community Based Child Protection in Humanitarian Action: Definitions and Terminology

Organisation
The Alliance

This resouce provides a list of common Community Based Child Protection (CBCP) - related terms and their definitions - is intended to show the evolving definitions around CBCP. Terms include:

  • community,
  • community-based
  • community-based child protection
  • community driven
  • formal child protection system
  • informal child protection system
  • family and kinship structures
  • child welfare workforce

This report can also be found in 12 postcard-sized slides with chapter-level summaries here.

Publication type
Guidance and technical materials
Topics
Community-level child protection