Thematic Areas
Child Protection
INEE is working together with the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action to encourage and support collaboration between the two sectors. The work is led by a Technical Focal Point who reports into both networks, with guidance from a multi-agency, cross-sector Reference Group.
Objectives
- Closer collaboration between CPHA & EiE Actors at all levels of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle and at every stage in a response.
- Improved wellbeing of children and youth affected by emergencies, crises and forced displacement.
Activities
- Convene a multi-agency cross-sector Reference Group to oversee the work
- Develop a position paper on the complementarity of the two sectors
- Develop a user-friendly programming framework/toolkit for joint and integrated programming across CPHA & EiE
- Field-testing the framework/toolkit in diverse contexts and incorporate lessons learned into the material to refine and finalize for dissemination
- Develop joint training materials for CPHA & EiE to increase linkages between sectors
Reference Group
The CPHA-EIE Reference Group is made up of technical experts in child protection and education, drawn from the following organisations:
- World Vision (WVI)
- Global Education Cluster
- WarChild UK
- International Rescue Committee (IRC)
- Porticus
- Save the Children
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
- Lego Foundation
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC)
- Finn Church Aid (FCA)
- International Education Funders Group (IEFG)
- UNESCO
- USAID
- UNHCR
- United States Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM)
- European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO)
- Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
- Education Development Center (EDC)
- Plan International
- Bureau d'Informations, Formations, Echanges et Recherches pour le Dévelopment (BIFERD)
- Bent Al-Rafedain Organization (BROB)
- Child Nepal
- Hurras Network
- Elevate Children
Resources/Outputs
- Published the Weighing Up the Risks policy paper and blog, with accompanying webinars in English & French, that contributed to changing the discourse on COVID-19 School Closures.
- Completed a Desk Review and series of KII's which contributed to the development of the CPHA-EiE Position Paper.
- Finalised the Competency Framework Annex, which is integrated into the Alliance Competency Framework, and the re-launched INEE Competency Framework.
- Developed a joint Alliance-INEE E-Learning module on cross sector collaboration, based on CPMS Standard 23.
- Published a research-evidence piece on the impact of Covid-19 related school closures on education outcomes and child protection risks: No Education, No Protection: What school closures under COVID-19 mean for children and young people in crisis-affected contexts.
- Focused attention of actors from both sectors on how to conceptualise and implement joint and integrated programming.
- Further resources can be found in the INEE Child Protection Collection
Contact: child-protection@inee.org