Purpose of the AME Working Group
To generate, synthesise, and use agency-specific and inter-agency evidence to promote effective interventions
Key Priorities (2021)
The AME Working Group is currently supporting members in their assessment, measurement and evidence efforts through the development of:
- An e-learning series on assessment, monitoring and evaluation in child protection in humanitarian action
- Guidance on the selection and contextualization of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection indicators
- Tools to identify and understand risk and protective factors to prevent harmful outcomes for children before they occur.
Key Tools and Resources
- Briefing Note: Setting the Global Research Agenda for Child Protection in Humanitarian Contexts
- Child Protection Rapid Assessment [AR, EN, ES, FR]
- Child Protection in Emergencies Monitoring Toolkit
- Child Protection in Emergencies Initial Assessment Toolkit
- Site Specific Child Protection Rapid Assessment
- Child Protection in Emergencies Assessment Flowchart
- Understanding Risk and Protective Factors in Humanitarian Crises: Towards a Preventive Approach to Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
- Why Identifying Risk and Protective Factors is a Critical Step in Prevention Programming: Implications for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
- Identifying and Ranking Risk and Protective Factors: A Brief Guide
- Defining Evidence-Based Practice for Application in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Working Group Member Organisations
- Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
- AVSI
- Bethany Global
- CARE US
- Child Protection Area of Responsibility (UNICEF)
- Child Safe Horizons
- Columbia University
- CPC Learning Network
- Global Women's Institute, George Washington University
- InterAction
- INEE
- IOM
- IRC
- Maestral
- OFDA
- Plan International
- Proteknôn Foundation for Innovation and Learning
- Retrak
- Save the Children
- Silberman School of Social Work
- Terre des Hommes
- UNHCR
- UNICEF
- War Child (UK and Holland)
- World Vision International
Contact Details:
- Leen Decadt, World Vision International: ame.wg@alliancecpha.org
- Ramya Subrahmanian, UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti: ame.wg@alliancecpha.org
- Josiah Kaplan, UNICEF Office of Research Innocenti: ame.wg@alliancecpha.org