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Child protection in emergencies
Child protection in emergencies is based upon the prevention of and response to abuse, neglect, exploitation of and violence against children in emergencies. An emergency is defined as ‘a situation where lives, physical and mental wellbeing, or development opportunities for children are threatened as a result of armed conflict, disaster or the breakdown of social or legal order, and where local capacity to cope is exceeded or inadequate’. This area includes sexual violence against children in emergencies, children associated with armed forces or armed groups, and family separation.
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ARC Resource Pack (Actions for the rights of the children)
A capacity-building tool for child protection in and after emergencies The ARC resource pack is an interagency collaboration. These materials can be used or reproduced without fee or prior permission, but the source should always be referenced as the ARC
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Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) Child Protection Resource Menu for COVID-19
The CP AoR Help Desk is managing a dropbox folder with collected global, regional, and country-level resources for COVID-19, and this document will be a living document stored in the dropbox folder. While many documents below are from known organizations
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Applying Humanitarian Standards to Fight COVID-19
This guidance note compiles the recommendations from Sphere and the core groups of the Humanitarian Standards Partnership (HSP) on how to strengthen the human rights of affected people in COVID-19 humanitarian responses. For guidance on Education in Emerg
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme 4th Cycle Asia Pacific: Residential Training Report
Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) is a six-month capacity building programme for mid-level child protection in emergencies practitioners. In the Asia Pacific region, three cycles have been completed since 2016 a
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme East and Southern Africa Case Study: Ransomed
This document is a case study of a participant in the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme. Ransomed participated in the first cycle of the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme in East and Southe
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Note d’Orientation pour la Protection de l’Enfance Pendant la Pandémie de Coronavirus (COVID-19)
On March 11, 2020, the WHO declared the epidemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as a pandemic.The virus now affects many countries and territories including the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is essential that communities take steps to prevent the sp
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Mid-level CPIE Staff Capacity Gap Analysis in the West and Central Africa Region (including Mauritania)
The CPiE capacity gaps analysis (CGA) in the West and Central Africa (plus Mauritania) region, targeting CPiE practitioners with 3-5 years of professional experience has been conducted to collect and provide information on: Identified key CPiE capacity ga
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme Asia Pacific Cycle 3: 9-Month follow-up report
Cycle 3 of the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) began in August 2018 aiming to empower mid-level Child Protection (CP) professionals from international and national NGOs and to strengthen their CP response capa
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme: Middle East and Eastern Europe- 1st Cycle 9-Months Follow-up Report
Cycle 1 of the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) in the Middle East and Eastern Europe region ran from September 2018 to April 2019. The programme aims to empower midlevel CPiE professionals from international a
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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme East and Southern Africa: End of cycle 1 report
The Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme strengthens the response capability in East and Southern Africa. Targetting mid-level child protection professionals to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to design and implem
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Road to Recovery: Responding to children's mental health in conflict
The briefing paper sets out the scale of mental health effects on children living in conflict zones and the role of education in responding to them. Latest figures reveal that 142 million children are living in high intensity conflict zones. As set out in
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Blast Injuries: The impact of explosive weapons on children in conflict
More children are living in conflict – and are more at risk in conflict – than at any time since the Cold War. The leading cause of casualties to these children is from explosive weapons – rockets, mortars, grenades, mines and improvised explosive devices