Participant Pack | 2025 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

Please find Participant Pack for the 2025 Annual Meeting in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It is important that participants familiarise themselves with this pack before the meeting.
The Participant Pack gives you all the information you need to successfully participate in the meeting, including Important Messages, Must Reads, and the Code of Engagement for interacting with child and adult speakers and participants - take a look as soon as you can!
To give a small snapshot of what is in store at this year's Annual Meeting:
3rd June: Protecting Children from the Ground Up in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape
The first day of the Annual Meeting will begin with a soft opening, offering participants a chance to explore the latest Alliance resources and their relevance to today’s humanitarian landscape. This will be followed by a session led by the Alliance’s technical groups on the impact of funding cuts on child protection. A dynamic speed networking session will help participants connect and get to know who is in the room. The meeting will then be officially opened with contributions from children and local actors, sharing perspectives on ground-up approaches to protecting children. Participants will also be introduced to the Alliance’s newly released Strategic Brief—a one-year stopgap strategy designed to sustain critical child protection interventions amid funding shortfalls and shifts in the humanitarian architecture. The day will conclude with two thematic sessions: the first focused on strengthening context-relevant, community-owned child protection, and the second, held in Spanish, on strengthening child protection systems—followed by a Spanish-language networking session.
4th June: Strengthening Local Leadership and Systems for Continued Child Protection
The second day of the Annual Meeting will deepen our exploration of the meeting theme with a focus on strengthening local and national actors, child protection systems, and the financing needed to sustain this work. The day will begin with two sessions from the Alliance’s Case Management and CAAFAG Task Forces, highlighting how these technical areas are advancing locally led approaches that respond to today’s humanitarian realities. A networking session on the meeting theme will follow, offering participants an opportunity to share experiences and connect around common challenges. The programme will then turn to the critical issue of funding, starting with a session on the localisation of financing for child protection, followed by a dedicated discussion on donor perspectives and the future of financing in the sector. The day will conclude with two thematic sessions: the first exploring local leadership in the prevention of recruitment and gender-based violence, and the second examining strategies to strengthen child protection systems through a range of entry points.
5th June: Preventing a Rollback on Child Protection Standards and Humanitarian Principles
The final day of the Annual Meeting will centre on standards and principles in child protection. The day will begin with an in-depth session on working with local actors to support LGBTQI+ children and their families. This will be followed by a French-language session on engaging a range of local actors to strengthen systems, accountability, and local-to-global action, and a French-language networking session. The afternoon will open with a session on child and community co-creation and implementation of accountability mechanisms and tools. This will be followed by contributions from the Alliance’s CPMS Working Group and UASC Task Force, highlighting key technical areas within the meeting theme. The day—and the meeting—will conclude with reflections from diverse perspectives on the theme, and participant inputs on the way forward.
If you have any questions regarding the meeting, please contact us at: annualmeeting2025@alliancecpha.org.
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