Child protection mainstreaming briefs

Child protection mainstreaming is the responsibility of all humanitarian actors. In order to ensure children’s safety, all humanitarian actors must ensure that child protection principles and considerations are integrated into assessments, planning, implementing, and monitoring and evaluation of all humanitarian sectors.

Child protection principles

This briefing package provides a quick reference for Plan International staff on how to ensure that child protection principles and considerations inform all aspects of humanitarian programming in other sectors. This is aligned with the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Sphere Standards.

This package includes a briefing paper on how to mainstream child protection in all humanitarian sectors, as well as guidance on how to work with specific sectors of WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), nutrition, and distribution, as well as MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning) considerations.

Campaigns, Early childhood development, Education, Emergencies, Protection from violence, Sexual and reproductive health and rights, Skills and work, Youth empowerment, Activism, Cash and voucher assistance, Child marriage, Child protection in emergencies, Children with disabilities, Civic engagement, Climate change, Climate change activism, Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), COVID-19, Disaster relief, Disaster risk management, Early learning, Education in emergencies, Female genital mutilation, Financial literacy, Food crisis, Gender-based violence, girls’ leadership, LGBTIQ+, Lifeskills training, Livelihoods, Maternal health, Menstruation, Migrant and displaced children, Organisation information, Out-of-school children, Parenting, Safeguarding, Safer Cities, Savings groups, Sexual and reproductive health services, Technology for development, Teenage pregnancy, Vocational training, Water and sanitation, Youth in media

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