A Closer Look: The June 2019 Alliance Newsletter

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action ("The Alliance") envisions a world in which children are protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence in humanitarian settings. Its mission is to support the efforts of humanitarian actors to achieve high-quality and effective child protection interventions in both refugee and non-refugee humanitarian contexts.

This month's newsletter features a step forward in the humanitarian sector's collaboration with Education in Emergencies, new research on the effectiveness of the Child Protection Rapid Assessments Toolkit, and an opportunity to influence the direction of the 2019 Alliance Annual Meeting.

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Updates from the Secretariat

The Alliance signs an LoU with INEE and Education Cannot Wait

06 Jun 2019

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (The Alliance) Co-coordinator, Hani Mansourian; Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Director, Dean Brooks; and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Director, Yasmin Sherif signed a...

Upcoming Events

2019 The Alliance Annual Meeting - Save the Date and Vote on the Theme

The next Annual Meeting for the Alliance is scheduled for the week of 14th of October. The second edition of the Minimum Standards on Child Protection in Humanitarian Standards will also be launced that week. Save the date! We are now asking you...

Updates from Working Groups and Task Forces

The Family Strengthening Task Force Hosts Presentation on Learning Through Play

23 May 2019

In its April meeting, the Family Strengthening Task Force (FSTF) hosted Anne-Sophie Dybdal from Save the Children to give a presentation on “Families in Focus - Using a Framework of Learning through Play”, a project implemented in Jordan with...

Community-Based Child Protection Task Force Adds to Webinar Series

23 May 2019

The Community-Based Child Protection Task Force (CBCP TF) hosted a webinar on April 4th, to discuss the “Community-Led Child Protection” toolkit developed by Professor Mike Wessells of Child Resilience Alliance and Patrick Onyango Mangen of TPO...

The Alliance's Advocacy Working Group Welcomes New Co-Lead

07 Jun 2019

The Advocacy Working Group of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is pleased to welcome Ramon Broers as their newest co-lead. Ramon is the new Advisor, Child Protection in Emergencies (CPiE) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for...

The Learning and Development Working Group Welcomes Acting Focal Point

23 May 2019

The Learning and Development Working Group (L&D WG) of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) would like to welcome Marion Prats as their Acting Focal Point. Marion started working in the Child Protection sector...

Interagency Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Training in Burkina Faso

01 Jun 2019

The humanitarian situation in Burkina Faso has deteriorated sharply in recent months. Insecurity is growing and causing massive internal displacement, as well as particularly violent inter-communal clashes. The Government and partners are facing...

Latest Resources

Child Protection Rapid Assessment (CPRA) Toolkit Review

07 Jun 2019

This report provides findings and analysis on the use of the Child Protection Rapid Assessment (CPRA) Toolkit between 2014 and 2018. It includes recommendations for (a) improving the CPRA Toolkit and (b) more effectively situating it within the...

No Choice: It takes a world to end the use of child soldiers

01 Jan 2019

World Vision commissioned the research, 'No Choice', to better understand children associate with armed groups. Featuring primary and secondary research from Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Condo, Iraq and ...

Achieving Durable Solutions for Returnee Children: What do we know?

01 Jan 2019

We are in the midst of a profound ‘returns-first’ shift in the global politics of child displacement. In response to soaring numbers of displaced worldwide –68.5 million, of which more than half are children – governments around the world are...

Vacancies within the Alliance

Home-based: Developing and piloting a module of child protection indicators for multi-purpose cash grants

17 Jun 2019

This is a 25 day consultancy contracted by Save the Children UK on behalf of the Alliance Cash and Child Protection Task Force and the Assessment, Measurement and Evidence Working Group. The consultant will develop a stand-alone survey tool with a...

Other News

World: 115 million boys and men around the world married as children

07 Jun 2019

NEW YORK, 7 June 2019 – An estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, UNICEF said today in its first ever in-depth analysis of child grooms. Of these, 1 in 5 children, or 23 million, were married before the age of...

World: Child, early and forced marriage in humanitarian settings - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

08 Jun 2019

Source: UN Human Rights Council Country: World Human Rights Council Forty-first session 24 June–12 July 2019 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High...

World: Rethink Child Soldiers: A New Approach to the Reintegration of all Children Associated with Armed Forces and Groups

11 Jun 2019

Source: War Child UK Country: Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, South Sudan, World It's Time to Rethink Child Soldiers War Child's new report, Rethink Child Soldiers, outlines how current efforts to...

World: The Dallaire Initiative takes over valuable Child Soldiers International programs

07 Jun 2019

Source: Child Soldiers International Country: World HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, June 6, 2019/CNW/ - The Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative (Dallaire Initiative) and Child Soldiers International (CSI) announced yesterday that the Dallaire Initiative...

South Sudan: Pocket-sized innovation, giant impact: New app and online system launches in South Sudan to support most vulnerable children

07 Jun 2019

Source: UN Children's Fund, Save the Children Country: South Sudan The innovations will support case workers helping unaccompanied and separated children, child survivors of sexual violence, and children associated with armed groups. JUBA, South...

South Sudan: I reunify children with their families in South Sudan. With this new app, my job has just become a lot easier

07 Jun 2019

Source: Save the Children Country: South Sudan My name is Silvia and I’m a Child Protection specialist. I’ve worked across many countries and emergencies over my 8 years with Save the Children, and through this time my focus has been on giving...

Senegal: “There Is Enormous Suffering”: Serious Abuses Against Talibé Children in Senegal, 2017-2018

11 Jun 2019

Source: Human Rights Watch Country: Senegal Summary Dusty, dirty, and often-barefooted boys holding empty tomato cans or plastic bowls as they beg for money remain a common sight in Senegal’s capital, Dakar, and in many other cities...