Protecting children against abuse, violence, neglect and exploitation is an obligation shared by many different actors, particularly Plan. A number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are now actively promoting systems strengthening as a means to achieve more effective and efficient child protection responses.

Plan in coalition with Save the Children, TRG, Unicef and World Vision; have come together the create a policy and programming resource guide to help strengthen child protection systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. This guide is designed to provide policy makers and programmers alike with a menu of tools and resources to help with child protection systems.