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The CCS Guidelines (this document) provide step-by-step guidance on how to implement the main aspects of the Caring for Child Survivors (CCS) Program Model. The CCS Guidelines is the “how-to” guide for instructing health and psychosocial field staff responding to children who have experienced sexual abuse. The CCS Guidelines include multiple tools for monitoring and evaluating the program model, such as: knowledge and skills competency assessments and case management monitoring and evaluation tools. The document includes guidance on caring for children who are unaccompanied or separated from…
This article is primarily aimed at providing a foundation for analyzing both the challenges and opportunities of partnering with religious communities and organizations in addressing child abuse and neglect. According to the article, the positive and nurturing role religion and participation in religious communities can play on child protection and wellbeing is often overlooked, even in the field of child protection. Especially in light of the growing emphasis on building resilience in vulnerable children, it is important for child protection professionals to recognize the positive influences…
This leaflet is a mapping of Save the children’s role and work in promoting the engagement of fathers. It presents some of the evidence of the benefits of involving fathers and some of the strategies used by the organization and others. Among the benefits highlighted:
- As fathers get more involved and share the care and domestic work burden, women’s economic empowerment advances.
- As fathers get involved, maternal health-related outcomes improve.
- As fathers get more involved from the start, there are better child development…
The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action were formulated between January 2011 and September 2012 by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), an inter-agency working group composed of child protection practitioners, other humanitarians, academics, and policy makers. Altogether, over 400 individuals from 30 agencies and 40 countries around the world contributed to the development of the standards. The standards set out a common agreement on what needs to be achieved in order for child protection in humanitarian settings to be of adequate quality.…
This International Labour Organization (ILO) document introduces a new international standard adopted in June 2012, the Social Protection Floors Recommendation, 2012 (No. 202), that provides guidance to member States in building comprehensive social security systems and extending social security coverage by prioritizing the establishment of national floors of social protection accessible to all in need. The Recommendation was adopted nearly unanimously by government, employer, and worker delegates of the ILO’s 185 member States.
Of particular…
This Guidance Note is provided for general relief workers and volunteers, health care and protection workers, programme managers, and any other personnel helping those affected by the Haiti earthquake. It provides guidance to organisations working in Haiti about how they can most appropriately communicate with communities, their own personnel and the media. The Guidance Note focuses mainly on the acute phase of the response (including early recovery) and provides basic guidance for action. Please use the IASC Guidelines for more detailed information on the appropriate response in all sectors…
Supportive families are essential to raising socially, mentally and physically healthy and well-adjusted children and preventing later adolescent problems. The challenges faced by many parents around the world as they try to provide for their families include balancing family and work life, juggling financial commitments, ensuring adequate support and social contacts and finding time for the family to be together. Sometimes parents struggle with substance abuse problems, which affects their parenting skills. Factors such as a lack of security, trust and warmth in parent-child…
WHAT: Guidelines for a multi-sectoral response to the most urgent mental health and psychosocial issues in emergency situations. Outlines steps for effective coordination, and identification of useful and potentially harmful practices to protect and support people’s (including children’s) mental health and psychosocial well-being.
WHO: All humanitarian actors involved in a multi-sectoral emergency response, including government authorities, international and national relief, social and community workers.
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HIV/AIDS is a major cause of infant and childhood mortality and morbidity in Africa. In children under five years of age, HIV/AIDS now accounts for 7.7% of mortality worldwide. AIDS already accounts for a rise of more than 19% in infant mortality and a 36% rise in under five mortality. Together with factors such as declining immunisation, HIV/AIDS is threatening recent gains in infant and child survival and health.
Yet, for the most part, HIV infection in children is preventable. In industrialised countries in North America and Europe, paediatric HIV infection has largely been controlled.…
During a crisis, such as armed conflict or natural disaster, institutions and systems for physical and social protection may be weakened or destroyed. Police, legal, health, education, and social services are often disrupted; many people flee, and those who remain may not have the capacity or the equipment to work. Families and communities are often separated, which results in a further breakdown of community support systems and protection mechanisms.
To save lives and maximise protection, a minimum set of activities must be rapidly undertaken in a coordinated manner to prevent and respond…