The Chronic Urban Emergency in Rift Valley Kenya: Report From Profiling Children Connected to the Streets in Rift Valley Province
Save the Children UK and UNICEF | Wednesday, August 01, 2012 | 940KB
Research was conducted in five Rift Valley towns in Kenya in 2011 to understand the link between emergencies and the perceived increase of children joining the streets. Findings show that emergencies such as Post Election Violence and drought have caused children to join the streets. By far the biggest reason for children joining the streets was food insecurity. The authors advocate for an urgent, large-scale response to place children currently connected to the streets in durable situations in tandem with a multi-sectorial development approach to tackle and address the root of the crisis. View document

Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Global Protection Cluster | Saturday, December 01, 2012 | 2,828KB
The Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action were formulated in 2011-2012 by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), an inter-agency working group composed of child protection practitioners, academics, and policy makers working to support child protection work in humanitarian settings. View document

Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System
IRC, Save the Children, and UNICEF | Sunday, July 01, 2012 | 560KB
Promotes and provides inter-agency information management tools for a coordinated approach to child protection particularly in regards to separated children, children associated with armed groups and forces and other especially vulnerable children. View document

United States Government Action Plan on Children in Adversity
United States Government | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | 2.47MB
The Action Plan on Children in Adversity is the first government wide strategic guidance for U.S. Government international assistance for children. The goal of the Action Plan is to achieve a world in which all children grow up within protective family care and free from deprivation, exploitation, and danger. It has three principal objectives, with Objective 2 specifically focusing on the importance of promoting family care and prevention of family-child separation. View document

Protect My Future: The Links Between Child Protection and Equity
Andy West & Emily Delap | Monday, October 01, 2012 | 1,293KB
The lack of care and protection facing children is a global crisis with billions of children experiencing abuse, neglect or exploitation, and many millions growing up outside of families, on the streets or in harmful institutional care. This lack of adequate care and protection is commonly the result of inequalities. Children without adequate care and protection are stigmatized and have inequitable access to basic services which, severely diminishes life chances and creates a spiral of disadvantage. In order to break this spiral, the authors of this report recommend a three-pronged strategy. View document

Child Adoption and War: 'Living Disappeared' Children and the Social Worker's Post-Conflict Role in El Salvador and Argentina
Karen Smith Rotabi | Wednesday, October 31, 2012
This research paper provides a brief overview of the Vietnam Babylift and of a more recent child abduction attempt in Chad. Then, turning to the history of child abduction and adoption history in Latin America, the paper presents the conflicts of El Salvador and Argentina and discusses ‘living disappeared’ children – those who disappear into adoption networks during war. The research explores the post-conflict social realities in both nations. The role of the social worker and specific practices are identified and discussed in context of generalist social work practice.

Fighting Back: Child and Community-led Strategies to Avoid Children’s Recruitment into Armed Forces and Groups in West Africa
Emily Delap | 2005 | 164 KB
A research study which explores strategies used by children, families and communities to prevent child recruitment into armed forces. View document

Interagency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children: FRENCH VERSION
Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children | Friday, February 19, 2010
The Guidelines from the IAWG provide some of the strongest direction for ensuring emergency efforts protect family unity and avoid child-family separation. Where family unity can not be preserved, these guidelines instruct on tracing and family reunification, care arrangements, durable arrangements, special issues related to refugee children, and promotion of children’s rights. View document

When the Safety Net Fails: Children in West and Central Africa and the Risk of HIV Infection
Plan West Africa | Sunday, March 01, 2009 | 80 KB
Study investigating the psychosocial impact of different high risk situations in West and Central Africa such as trafficking, ethnic cleansing, armed conflict or parental loss. View document

UNHCR Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child
United Nations High Commission on Refugees | Thursday, May 01, 2008 | 1.66MB
Provides a formal mechanism to determine the best interests of the child as a mechanism within a child protection system View document