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what is child protection and how can courage help you? Child protection is the prevention and responding to violence, exploitation and abuse against children. Courage is a powerful toolkit that can work inside any child protection organization, community, family or individual to help enhance the child protection work that you do. Our aim is to give you the practical tools you will need to develop a child protection strategy that: 1.Recognises the rights and needs of all children. 2.Helps you to identify where they are being abused or overlooked. 3.Provides you with the strategies you will need to resolve the child protection challenges that you encounter. 4.Empowers yourself, your organization and your community to make a difference, in partnership with other like-minded individuals or organisations. 5.Measures and evaluates your progress to ensure that the difference you make is effective and sustainable. Good luck, and may you always have Courage in your heart.

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the universal rights of a child All children are entitled to a number of universal rights that are defined at an international, continental and country level. Courage summarises these rights into two different worlds: 1.A world where a child’s rights are met. 2.A world where a child’s rights are not met. These rights are grouped into four key areas: 1.The most basic physical rights that children need fulfilled to live. 2.The rights that children need to love and build relationships with other people. 3.The rights that children need to learn and develop to their full potential. 4.The rights that children need to live their best lives and to leave a legacy. Each of these rights are enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF’s Convention on Rights of the Child and the various in-country constitutions that protect children around the world. Before embarking on a child protection strategy it is important to be familiar with these rights to ensure that they are being met throughout your child protection efforts.

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the developmental needs of a child Each child develops in their own unique way, however, certain critical needs and milestones are relevant to all. Courage has summarised these developmental stages as follows: 17 – 32 weeks in-utero: Growth & Care 0 – 12 months: Love & Routine 1 – 2 years: Personality, 1 st Steps & Words 2 – 3 years toddler: Independence, Observing & Imitating 4 – 5 years: Planning & Making Friends 6 – 8 years: School, Projects & Problem Solving 9 – 11 years: Accomplishment & Friendship 12 – 18 years teenager: Puberty, Hormones & Early Adulthood Use these developmental charts to understand the child you are caring for or assisting, to meet their physical, mental, emotional and social needs. The charts will also help you to assess whether a child is experiencing any basic developmental or behavioural delays.

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child protection in your community Many people fail to see the child protection challenges that are happening in their own community, or they are too afraid to admit that they exist. Courage has illustrated a typical local community complete with formal and informal housing, and social services such as hospitals, clinics, schools, places of worship and government offices. In this community you will also find lots of different kinds of people, children, parents, grandparents, community members, teachers, doctors, social workers, the police and more. All of these people are interacting and many are experiencing child protection challenges and/or solutions. Their conversations are illustrated using our Courage icon language, which we use throughout the Courage engagement programme to ensure understanding, no matter what language you speak. Use this map to see if you can identify any child protection challenges that you have observed in your own community, and think about the impact that it had (use the zoom function to see detail). Acknowledging that child protection challenges are taking place in your community is the first step towards solving these problems and preventing them from happening again.

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child protection challenges There are different views on what a child protection challenge is, due to different people’s cultures and social norms. Courage has identified 35 different child protection challenges that are happening in communities around the world. Each child protection challenge is illustrated using a scenario and an icon, this will help you to understand the Courage icon language better moving forward. Each challenge, their drivers and consequences are also explained in more detail through the smaller icons at the top of each chart. Use these charts to identify and prioritise the child protection challenges happening in your community. Write down each challenge and then rank it on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is ‘not a concern’, 5 is of ‘medium concern’ and 10 is of ‘highest concern’ to you in your community. Not only will this help you to rank the most important challenges you face currently, if you do this exercise on an annual basis, it will become a useful benchmarking tool, to see how your community's child protection challenges are evolving over time. You will also use this summary of challenges to identify which child protection strategies you will need to access and in developing your child protection empowerment plan.

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child protection strategies Once you have identified and prioritised your child protection challenges, you will need to choose the prevention, early intervention and statutory intervention strategies required to address them. Courage has 6 different child protection strategy maps that illustrate a process or concept to help you engage with the people involved in your child protection challenge. These people could include children, young adults, women experiencing a crisis pregnancy, parents, carers, community members, at risk individuals and other child protection partners (e.g. social workers, teachers, health care practitioners, government officials and the police). Use these strategy maps to identify the best way forward in addressing your child protection challenge. This could include developing an action plan, or just having a conversation about the way forward with affected individuals so that they know what options are available to them. The strategy maps include: 1.Prevention and the process followed in an early intervention 2.Sex, conception and pregnancy awareness 3.Option counselling for someone experiencing a crisis pregnancy 4.The process followed in a statutory intervention 5.The process to follow if a child has been found abandoned 6.Permanent child placement through the process of adoption

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child protection empowerment tool All child protection challenges are driven by some form of disempowerment. Courage has identified 7 different disempowerment themes which all child protection challenges fit into. The fit may differ from community to community, depending on the unique circumstances that have created the challenge you are dealing with. However, once you have identified the theme, an equally powerful empowerment solution will become clear using the following matrix: Once you have identified and prioritised your child protection challenges, group the most critical into the 7 disempowerment themes above. Then use the empowerment theme below to develop a belief set or value system that will drive how you put your child protection solution into action. Each of these dis/empowerment themes are explained in detail in the cards that follow.

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developing a child protection strategy It is important in child protection to move from awareness and understanding into action and delivery as quickly as possible. To assist you with this, Courage has developed a number of ‘templates’ to help you develop a child protection strategy using the Courage toolkit as a framework for your thinking: 1.Strategy Overview: Use this overview to structure your child protection strategy and to review it. 2.Vision Template: Use this template to develop a child protection vision for your community, refer to the Universal Child Rights and Developmental Needs Charts for inspiration. 3.Child Protection Challenges Template: Use this template to rank each of the child protection challenges in your community, refer to the Child Protection Challenges for inspiration. 4.Strategic Priorities Template: Use this template to identify short term, medium term and long term priorities once you have identified your top child protection challenges. 5.Action Plan Template: Complete this template for each of your priorities, using the Child Protection Strategies to assist you in your planning process. 6.Strategic Partnerships & Planning Templates: Use these templates to identity the strategic partners you will need to implement your child protection plan with, refer to the Courage Community Map and Child Protection Strategies to for inspiration. 7.Challenges/Disempowerment Theme Sorting: Use this template to group your child protection challenges under key disempowerment themes, which will then reveal what empowerment themes or guiding principles to use in your child protection strategy. For more information on developing a child protection strategy, see the Courage Facilitator Guide at

child protection strategy: overview Overarching Vision & Values for your Child Protection Plan What do we want to achieve? (Child Rights & Needs) What is the reality of our children? (Child Protection Challenges) Identify & Prioritise Strategy Objectives Partnership Plan (Roles & Responsibilities) Action Plan (What, Who, When, Where, Why & How) Implementation & Measurement/Evaluation Quarterly Review Annual Strategic Planning Process

child protection strategy: vision What is the purpose of children in our community and society? What world would we like to create for them to ensure that they thrive?

child protection strategy: child protection challenges ranking CHILD PROTECTION CHALLENGE RANKRANK CHILD PROTECTION CHALLENEG RANKRANK CHILD PROTECTION CHALLENGE RANKRANK RANKRANK RANKRANK Poverty & Inequality AbandonedNo Registration or Identity Child TraffickingStreet Children, Unaccompanied Minors & Refugees Teenage Pregnancy Abuse in the Justice Care System Poor NutritionChild MarriageBullying Late Termination of Pregnancy Physical AbuseNo/Poor Healthcare Virginity TestingAbuse of children with disabilities Stigma/Abuse of Pregnant Mothers Corporal Punishment No Education or Schooling Female Genital Mutilation & Circumcision Violence against Sexual Minorities Drug & Alcohol Abuse In-Utero (FASD) Murder & Attempted Murder Sexual Abuse & Rape Harmful Male Circumcision Exposure to Gangsterism Mother to Baby HIV Transmission Emotional AbuseChild LabourBody Parts used for Traditional Medicine Self Harming & Suicide OrphanedNeglectCommercial Sexual Exploitation Child Headed Households Addiction

child protection strategy: strategic priorities HOW DIFFICULT WILL THIS BE TO IMPLEMENT/SOLVE? WHAT IMPACT WILL THIS HAVE ON MY COMMUNITY? LOW MEDIUM HIGH LOW MEDIUM HIGH SHORT TERM MEDIUM TERM LONG TERM Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3

child protection strategy: strategic action plan CHILD PROTECTION PRIORITY: WHAT & WHYMEASUREMENT & EVALUATION Define what you want to achieve with this goal or priority? Define why you are doing it, in relation to achieving your child protection vision? Identity they key measures of success for this priority? (Ask yourself, ‘what would success look like if we achieved this?’) How would you measure whether you have achieved this priority or not? How often and when would you measure whether you have achieved this priority? HOWWHOWHEN How are you going to achieve this priority? (Use the Child Protection Strategy Maps to help you answer this question) Who is responsible for delivery? When must it be delivered by?

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