Child Protection and Anticipatory Action
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We need to do better to protect children and guarantee their rights in emergencies.
We Need to Do Better: Climate Related Disasters and Child Protection in Southeast Asia
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This analysis report, “We Need To Do Better: Climate Related Disasters and Child Protection in Southeast Asia” is a partnership between the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility and the IFRC. It aims to enhance the protection of children in climate related disasters. In particular, the analysis seeks to understand child perspectives about climate change, climate related disasters, and the risks they face. It provides practical ways to enhance coordinated and localized child protection approaches in preparing for climate related disasters in Southeast Asia.
We Need To Do Better: Climate Related Disasters and Child Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
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This analysis report, “We Need To Do Better: Climate Related Disasters and Child Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa” is a partnership between the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility and the IFRC.
It aims to enhance the protection of children in climate related disasters. In particular, the analysis seeks to understand child perspectives about climate change, climate related disasters, and the risks they face. It provides practical ways to enhance coordinated and localized child protection approaches in preparing for climate related disasters in Eastern and Southern Africa.
It aims to enhance the protection of children in climate related disasters. In particular, the analysis seeks to understand child perspectives about climate change, climate related disasters, and the risks they face. It provides practical ways to enhance coordinated and localized child protection approaches in preparing for climate related disasters in Eastern and Southern Africa.
IFRC and Sesame Workshop: Child Play-based Assessment Tool
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The pilot IFRC and Sesame Workshop play-based assessment tool of children’s wellbeing is designed to engage young children, ages 4-8 years, and families as part of assessments in emergency or non-emergency settings.
Children often represent a significant, or even a majority, of the people affected by disasters and other crises. However, the needs of young children are rarely assessed directly with children, and especially those from marginalized backgrounds. And although every child has the right to participate in decisions that affect them, young children rarely have opportunities to have their voices heard in a meaningful way.
Without appropriate child participation, humanitarian programming is inherently ineffective because it does not draw on the perspectives or needs and capacities of children and their families.
Children often represent a significant, or even a majority, of the people affected by disasters and other crises. However, the needs of young children are rarely assessed directly with children, and especially those from marginalized backgrounds. And although every child has the right to participate in decisions that affect them, young children rarely have opportunities to have their voices heard in a meaningful way.
Without appropriate child participation, humanitarian programming is inherently ineffective because it does not draw on the perspectives or needs and capacities of children and their families.
Case Study: Portugal Red Cross Protection and Assistance to Unaccompanied and Separated Children
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The Portugal Red Cross Housing System to shelter unaccompanied children was aimed specifically at children seeking asylum within the scope of the European Relocation Programme. The Housing System ran from June 2020 to March 2022, in Lisbon. It had the capacity to take in 25 children at any one time. Each child stayed for a length of time as appropriate to their individual situation.
The Housing System was designed to integrate children into the local society, to empower them, and to provide them with skills to have autonomy in the future. To achieve this inclusive integration, a holistic approach was applied that included supporting children to access health care, education, local services, legal documentation, Restoring Family Links. The interests, capacities, and needs of each child were taken into account in the design of each child's personal plan while at the Housing System.
The Housing System was designed to integrate children into the local society, to empower them, and to provide them with skills to have autonomy in the future. To achieve this inclusive integration, a holistic approach was applied that included supporting children to access health care, education, local services, legal documentation, Restoring Family Links. The interests, capacities, and needs of each child were taken into account in the design of each child's personal plan while at the Housing System.
Global Forum For Children and Youth
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The Global Forum will focus the world’s attention on the rights and urgent needs of children and young people, identify and celebrate proven and new solutions to address them, and inspire commitments, drive action and mobilize transformational resources to scale up and advance child rights and meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
Child Protection Rapid Assessment Toolkit
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The Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) is the global level forum for coordination on child protection in humanitarian settings. The group brings together NGOs, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring more predictable, accountable and effective child protection responses in emergencies. In the humanitarian system, we constitute ‘an area of responsibility’ within the Global Protection Cluster.
Case Study: Turkish Red Crescent Cash for Protection and Supporting Separated Children
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On February 6th, 2023 magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes struck Türkiye, with 83 aftershocks, impacting 11 cities. Türk Kızılay / Turkish Red Crescent launched a Cash for Protection programme in November 2023 in 6 of the most earthquake affected provinces. The aim was to alleviate economic difficulties, mitigate possible protection risks, and prevent adverse negative coping strategies like child marriage and child labour. Among the groups accessing the Cash for Protection programme are separated children and their caregivers who require cash for protection to overcome the financial barriers for their legal processes or to empower their family support systems.
Case Study: Panama Red Cross Children's Home
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The Panamanian Red Cross Children's Home, "Hogar de la ninez", is a program aimed at children from 0 months to 4 years old. "Hogar de la ninez" provides 24-hour shelter, protection and comprehensive care to children who are in particularly difficult circumstances in accordance with international standards such as the Panama Convention on the Rights of the Child (Law 15 of 1990). Children are referred by the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and the Family of the Republic of Panama and the Family Courts.
Operational Guidance for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
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The Toolkit for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings was developed by World Vision International and
the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support.
The Toolkit for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings comprises:
• Activity Catalogue for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
• Operational Guidance for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
• Training for Implementers of Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
the IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support.
The Toolkit for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings comprises:
• Activity Catalogue for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
• Operational Guidance for Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings
• Training for Implementers of Child Friendly Spaces in Humanitarian Settings