
Initiatives
The Alliance Working Groups and Task Forces have developed a series of initiatives that align to the current Strategic Plan. Click on the topics below to see how you can participate in, or benefit from, these initiatives.
The Child Protection Minimum Standards (CPMS) Working Group of the Alliance recently released its newest video resource: "Hannah Has a New Job". This short video was designed as a follow-up to "This is Samira" and is applicable to newly-hired child protection in humanitarian action (CPHA) staff as well as those who want to learn more about using the CPMS to protect children in emergency settings...
Both family separation and detention — unaccompanied or as a family — have proven to be detrimental to children’s overall development and long-term wellbeing. With this in mind, the Alliance developed an advocacy brief to address the separation and detention of children/families along the southern US border. The Alliance also collaborated with the Better Care Network on a second brief to call for...
The Alliance’s Child Protection Minimum Standards Working Group has developed a new guidance note and briefing paper for child protection practitioners on how to ensure that children’s protection needs are considered in preparation for, and in response to, infectious disease outbreaks. These resources were developed in response to an identified gap in available guidance for child protection...
After a multi-stage, collaborative process, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action has defined its strategic priorities for 2018−2020. These priorities—integrated programming, evidence-based programming, and localisation—are driving the Alliance’s work and, most importantly, the work plans of its four working groups and six task forces. The Alliance's nearly 100 member...
In the year 2017, 222 violent conflicts were fought worldwide. When armed conflicts erupt, at least 10 per cent of all explosive weapons fired, dropped or launched remains unexploded. Landmines, explosive weapon remnants and unused ordnance left behind by combatants contaminate fields, streets and playgrounds. These weapons constitute a persistent, deadly threat to communities. Children are...
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (The Alliance) and the Inter-Agency Network of Education in Emergencies (INEE), in partnership with Elevate Children Funders Group and International Education Funders Group, held a joint meeting in Nairobi 15-16 October 2018. The two-day roundtable brought together actors from both sectors to consider how the CPHA and EiE sectors could ...