1. Child protection minimum standards

2. Child Protection in Emergencies
Child Protection in Emergencies is about preventing and responding to violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. Whether caused by armed conflict or disasters, an emergency is a time when children face significant protection issues and increased risk of violence.
In any emergency situation, children are particularly at risk of separation from their families, abandonment, physical, psychological and sexual abuse, economic exploitation and lack of access to essential rights and services such as health, shelter and education.

3. This is Samira
Say that it’s available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.

4. Child Protection Working Group
The CPWG is the global level forum for coordination and collaboration on child protection in humanitarian settings. The group brings together NGOs, UN agencies, academics and other partners under the shared objective of ensuring more predictable, accountable and effective child protection responses in emergencies.

5. CPWG Members and Associates
Bureau for Population and Refugee Migration; Government of Canada; Child Frontiers; Child Helpline International; Child Soldiers International; ChildFund International; Columbia University, CPC Network; Danish Refugee Council; Department for International Development; Displaced Children and Orphans Fund; European Commission Humanitarian Office; EveryChild; Family for Every Child; Geneva Call; GOAL; Handicap International; Heartland Alliance; International Bureau for Children's Rights; International Committee of the Red Cross; International Labour Organization; International Rescue Committee; Islamic Relief Worldwide; Keeping Children Safe Coalition; Mercy Corps; Norwegian Refugee Council; U.S. Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance; Plan International; Retrak; Refugee Point; Save the Children; SOS Children's Villages International; Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation; Terre des Hommes; The International Institute for Child Rights and Development; United Nations Children's Fund; United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations; United Nations High Commission for Refugees; War Child Canada; War Child Holland; War Child UK; Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict and World Vision International.
The CPWG is the global level forum for coordination on child protection in humanitarian settings. In the humanitarian system, the CPWG constitutes an “area of responsibility” within the Global Protection Cluster.
The group brings together NGOs, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring more predictable, accountable and effective child protection responses in emergencies.
The global Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) led the development of the CPMS and is helping to support its roll-out and implementation. A CPMS Task Force has been created within the global CPWG to support the initiative.
As you can see from the list, the development and roll-out are inter-agency processes with broad consensus.
The CPWG also includes individual members with expertise in the area, who are not included in the list on the slide.

6. Child Protection: Life-saving, but Undervalued
Expertise, preparation, preventative measures and well-designed child protection responses help communities reduce risks to children and provide a sense of normalcy as quickly as possible.
Protecting children in emergencies saves lives and reduces the lifelong negative impact on children’s wellbeing and development and future productivity.
Second to education, child protection is the least-funded area of humanitarian response.
Most child protection projects receive less than half the funding required.
Investing in child protection is part of “building back better” . If children are protected they can contribute to helping their communities recover from the ill effects of the emergency and become contributing members of their communities.
‘Too Little, Too Late’: A study on child protection funding in emergencies, commissioned by the CPWG and carried out by Save the Children. It looks at the overall global trend in funding for child protection in emergencies worldwide in the period

7. The Need for CP Minimum Standards
“I have trouble convincing our manager and donor that child protection in emergencies can prevent violence and save lives”
“We find it find hard to discuss the importance of child protection interventions with humanitarian workers in other sectors”
“I spend a lot of time searching for the latest guidelines on child protection”

8. The Need for CP Minimum Standards
“CPMS would help organizations prepare for child protection issues during emergency response”
“CPMS would provide benchmarks for what is a ‘good enough’ child protection programme”
“CPMS indicators would allow organizations to better evaluate their response work in terms of child protection”
“CPMS would enable new cluster members at country level to benefit from evolution of the sector so far, and encourage all actors to obtain a minimum level of quality in responses”

9. Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action (CPMS)
A practical, interagency tool to address such challenges. They are reshaping Child Protection in Emergencies worldwide.

10. Toolkit for Humanitarian Action
“The CPMS work to strengthen the quality and accountability of child protection programming (…) They provide a clear basis for coordination, expectation of appropriate responses and improved monitoring and reports. Most importantly, they don’t exist in isolation. They have become an important part of the toolkit for humanitarian action.”
Leslie Norton, Government of Canada, Director General, International Humanitarian Assistance Bureau, DFATD.

11. Drafting Process November 2010, First meeting
July 2011, Large consultation
April 2012, Country consultations (Four languages)
October 2012, Global launch

12. Process to develop CPMS
400+ people
30 organizations
More that 40 countries worldwide
16 country consultations
8 pre-final drafts

13. CPMS Objectives
The Child Protection Minimum Standards aim to improve programming and accountability in child protection work. They compile current good practice and learning, and facilitate better communication and advocacy on child protection issues.

14. CPMS Objectives
Establish common principles among those working in child protection;
Improve the quality of child protection programming and its impact for children;
Improve accountability within child protection work;
Provide a synthesis of good practice and learning to date;
Enable better advocacy and communication on child protection risks, needs and responses.
The CPMS references and builds directly on existing guidelines such as interagency guidelines on child friendly spaces, mental health and psychosocial support, unaccompanied and separated children, working with CAAFAG, etc.

15. Working together: CPMS and other humanitarian standards
The Sphere Project, the ICRC Professional Standards for Protection, INEE Standards, HAP and others help humanitarian actors to improve quality and accountability in Humanitarian Response. +
CPMS became companion Standards to the Sphere Standards in May 2013.

16. CPMS Structure
The CPMS begins with Principles and Approaches
Explain.

17. Principles Underpinning the CPMS
Explain jigsaw: Four Guiding Principles of the UNCRC; Four Sphere Handbook Principles; Two CPMS principles
Survival and development
Non-discrimination
Child Participation
Best Interest of the Child
Avoid exposing people to further harm
Ensure people’s access to impartial assistance
Protect people from physical and psychological harm
Assist people to claim their rights, access available remedies and recover from the effects of abuse
Strengthen child protection systems
Strengthen children’s resilience in humanitarian action

18. Standards for a Quality Response
1. Coordination 2. Communications, Advocacy and Media 3. Human resources 4. Programme Cycle Management 5. Information Management 6. Child Protection Monitoring
Go through each one, pulling out detail and giving examples where useful.

19. Standards for Addressing Needs
7. Dangers and injuries
8. Physical Violence and other harmful practices
9. Sexual Violence
10. Psychosocial distress and mental disorders
11. Children associated with armed forces or armed groups
12. Child labour
13. Unaccompanied and separate children
14. Justice for children

20. Standards for Developing Adequate Strategies
15. Case Management
16. Community-based child protection mechanisms
17. Child-friendly spaces
18. Protecting excluded children

21. Standards for Mainstreaming
Economic Recovery
20. Education
21. Health
22. Nutrition
23. WASH
24. Shelter
25. Camp Management
26. Distribution

22. CPMS Structure Follows Sphere Format
Background information
Standard
Key actions in the preparedness and response phase
Outcome and action indicators to measure your efforts
Guidance notes
References
Under each standard, you will find essential background information on the topic, the standard itself and key actions in the preparedness and response phase, outcome and action indicators to measure your efforts, guidance notes and a reference list.

23. CPMS Changing Child Protection in Emergencies
“Sometimes our field staff are under enormous pressure to jump into responses without consulting existing actors and systems on the ground. CPMS Principle 5 really helped our colleagues to identify what was existing in the country as a child protection system: on the ground, in the community, in the government’s systems.”
Principle 5: Strengthen Child Protection Systems
Makiba Yamano, World Vision International

24. Who are the CPMS for?
CPMS
Those working directly with children, families and communities
Planners, policymakers and coordinators
Donors
Government personnel and those working in independent or multilateral organizations
Justice system and security personnel
Armed forces and armed groups

25. CPMS Help Measure Impacts
There is a clear need to increase the sector’s effectiveness by producing a solid evidence base.
The CPMS state how we measure the impact of our work and provide sample indicators.
How can we use CPMS?

26. At all stages of humanitarian response
Preparedness
Response
Early Recovery
Prevention
When should the CPMS be used?
At all stages of humanitarian response
Note that prevention activities should be woven into activities at all stages.

27. To sum up: How can the CPMS be used?
To plan and cost humanitarian interventions
To monitor and evaluate the allocation of funding
To establish common and measurable expectations
To agree on common principles between different actors
To induct and train new staff or partners
As a learning and reference document
To increase the effectiveness of humanitarian activities in other sectors
To improve advocacy and communications on child protection issues

28. CPMS Roll-out Products
Handbook available in English, French, Spanish & Arabic in hard copy
Translations into Turkish, Korean, Indonesian and Portuguese
Roll-out Pack (banners, brochures, presentation etc.)
CPMS Contextualization “How-To Guide”
Training packages: Field Workers Frontline CPMS training/workshop CPiE F2F Training Package structured around CPMS, Action for the Rights of the Child (ARC) aligned with the CPMS
Translation: Within a year, the CPMS were available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish and Korean. Translations are currently underway in Indonesian and PortugueseThis list will grow as the roll-out continues.
Dissemination: Available as a handbook & online

29. More CPMS Products Coming Soon..
CPMS Mainstreaming Briefs & “Top Tips”
What You Need to Know about the CPMS in an L3 (forthcoming)
Child-friendly Version of CPMS (forthcoming)
Youth-friendly Version of CPMS (forthcoming)
Summary Version of CPMS Handbook
Video Lecture Series

30. Roll-out process 2013-2015 Mainstreaming Raise awareness
Gather support of government and other humanitarian leaders
Promote use of CPMS
Contextualization
Make the content of the standards appropriate and meaningful to the context
To have a set of Standards that the government can invest in Provide a basis for improving sector plans
Mainstreaming
Dialogue with actors from other sectors to improve incorporation of child protection in all sectors
Integrate & monitor application
Improve the quality, predictability and accountability of the child protection response in your context
Country & regional level activities
Raise awareness – launch events, discussions
Contextualize the Standards
Build capacity to use CPMS
Integrate CPMS in strategies, work plans and M&E tools
Dialogue with colleagues in other sectors on how to mainstream Standards
Assess existing programmes against the Standards

31. 20 CPMS Trainings & Workshops
Roll out events so far!
18 Launches
East Africa region, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Jordan, DRC, Ethiopia, Pakistan, the Philippines, USA, the Latin America region, and the North American region, Colombia, Vietnam, Yemen, Burundi and CAR.
9 Contextualizations
Jordan, Kenya (Dadaab), DRC, Rwanda, Mali, Sudan, Indonesia, Burundi and CAR.
20 CPMS Trainings & Workshops
Burkina Faso, Caribbean (regional), Democratic Republic of Congo (national and South Kivu Province), Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Pacific (regional), Pakistan, Somalia, Sri Lanka, South Sudan, Australia, CAR, Indonesia, Turkey-Syria Response, Afghanistan and Thailand.

32. Support CPMS Implementation!
Reach out to the CPMS Task Force for advice or technical assistance!
Does the inter-agency CP Strategy refer to CPMS?
Do humanitarian decision makers recognize CPMS?
Has there been a CPMS Launch?
Does the country have a specific CPMS roll-out plan?
Have CPMS been contextualized for the country/area?
Is there a need for technical assistance to help promote, adapt to implement the CPMS?

33. Global Level support Financially support workshops & trainings
Technically support contextualization, mainstreaming & other activities
Develop & produce capacity building & communication materials
Monitor use &application of the Standards

34. Recent & upcoming CPMS events
(See cpwg.net > Minimum Standards > Events)

35. Using the CPMS
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