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This video by the Alliance for for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action details
Learn more about the Alliance's Primary Prevention and the Prevention Initiative here.
Videos series includes:
- What is Prevention? - Learn about the three levels of prevention in…
This is a poster for Child Protection teams to emphasize the evidence based practices of engaging volunteers that were documented in the research.
Additional Resources:
- Exploratory Study Report | Community Engagement in Case Management: The full research report with the findings and recommendations for child protection actors in humanitarian settings. (Only available in …
This safeguarding risk assessment supports your organization to assess strengths and risk in relation to safeguarding, including policies, procedures, personnel and programs. The assessment tool is an excel spreadsheet – starting with an overview and directions for use on tab 1. The risk assessment should take between 1.5 to 3 hours to complete, assuming that the people completing the risk assessment are familiar with the operational and programmatic aspects of the organization. Ideally, the information is completed by the person named designated safeguarding lead with support from other…
Changing the Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is committed to bold and highest quality child protection and safeguarding in all of its work. Within the initiative, they sought to ensure that children and young people at risk of or outside of family care are safeguarded. As a consortium this commitment required an assessment of risk and review of policies and practices, harmonizing approaches across multiple organizations, training staff and capacitating partners and working with implementing partners. CTWWC continues to strive to uphold the highest standards in safeguarding,…
The purpose of these guidelines is to equip you with a tool that helps you build a sound understanding of an organisation so that you can make a well-informed decision about whether or not to establish a partnership with them. The check can also reveal to you other ways in which you can support the project achieve it’s goals – that may be helping them access additional training for the staff, sending your accountant to help them set up good cash management systems or providing the funding for them to hire an experienced staff member.
The Reconstructing Children’s Rights Institute is a multi-part series of conversations and resources for learning, information sharing and actionable next steps. The goal is to raise awareness and recognition of how racism, patriarchy, and power permeate the international child rights and child protection field. Building on Conversation #1, this session…
This tool is an adaptation of the BCN Country Care Profile Matrix which can be used by practitioners, organisations or networks seeking to develop a better understanding of the status and functioning of the care system in their country of operation. The tool contains a list of questions organised around key components of the care system that can guide organisations or practitioners' efforts to collect information for the purpose of transition and reintegration planning, program design and the…
This policy brief has been developed to serve as a guidance to practitioners while developing any practice on leaving care. It aims to stimulate further discussion amongst practitioners and reach a common professional consensus on formalised guidelines towards leaving care at global, national and local levels.
It is based on the deliberations of the “1st International Care Leavers Convention 2020” (ICLC) held from November 23-25, 2020, with a concluding session held on December 11, 2020 with policy makers from 9 countries. The ICLC also had a series of four pre-events that focused on…
The Government of Ghana with UNICEF support developed an Inter-Sectoral Standard Operating Procedure for child protection and family welfare (ISSOP). The ISSOP provides a harmonized framework of agreed standards, principles and procedures for all child protection and family welfare stakeholders to understand each other’s roles and responsibilities. In addition, the ISSOP helps to hold stakeholders mutually accountable to each other and the beneficiaries they serve. It identifies specific procedures to the use of forms, tools and guides by the social services and other key stakeholders. The…
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Globally, there are multiple efforts to reform child welfare systems to promote better care for children, with attention to preventing unnecessary separation of children from their families and ensuring the provision of alternative care for children deprived of parental care. In Ghana, the need for a strong monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system has been identified as necessary to provide timely, reliable, and accurate information to assess whether approaches and interventions are effective, to improve accountability and learning, and to inform planning and…