GETTING ON THE RIGHT PATH

The four main objectives of the workshop are to enable participants to: GETTING ON THE RIGHT PATH

Understand UNICEF’s mission, role, and priorities in complex emergencies, including how UNICEF applies its rights based approach to programming in these contexts OBJECTIVE 1:

Become familiar with the international legal and ethical standards (normative framework) which provide protection to children and women affected by conflict OBJECTIVE 2:

Understand how the normative framework provides the foundation for UNICEF’s assistance, protection and advocacy work in complex emergencies OBJECTIVE 3:

Learn about the challenges of applying the normative framework and humanitarian principles to practical dilemmas facing UNICEF staff and partners working in complex emergencies. Challenges include negotiating humanitarian access, protection of internally displaced persons, prevention of the recruitment and use of child soldiers, engaging with non-state entities; and prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse OBJECTIVE 4:

The workshop design assumes that participants already have knowledge and experience of UNICEF’s human rights-based approach to programming, or of working in emergency situations. The focus here is the integration of a child rights approach to complex emergencies in accordance with international legal and ethical standards and humanitarian principles