CAS Digital Learning in Emergencies (2022-23)/module4-Mikias

Module 4 - Mikias' page

Topic:

Course for education and CP personnel on Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA)

Overview of the context

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Globally 1 in every 70 people around the world is currently caught up in a crisis. Another 89.3 mil are forced to flee due to large-scale displacements. Children who constitute just under half the affected population are particularly vulnerable in these situations. The impacts of crises are not only felt immediately by children but can have long-lasting effects over the course of their lifetime and into the next generation. While death, injuries, separation from their families, recruitment by armed forces or armed groups, child labor, sexual violence, and other types of abuse and exploitation are only some of the risks that boys and girls face in humanitarian situations around the world, protecting them from violence, abuse and neglect is an urgent priority for all humanitarian personnel. This course aims to encourage exchanges and appreciation of practical experiences of the complexity of child protection in refugee and IDP contexts. Indeed, it's important to acknowledge that historically, humanitarian child protection has been very focused on responding to harm and protection issues when they've already happened. These reactive programs are fundamental to the work to provide a response to children, but this course also focuses on the many preventive actions that we can take.

Aims

Improve the capacity of education personnel towards enhancing the protection of children in schools in both IDP and refugee contexts

Outcomes:

• Familiarize with the CP legal framework, inter-agency coordination requirements and key global guiding documents and instruments, and key CP core principles and standards
• Define child well-being and the active role of child agencies, caregivers, and communities in supporting and protecting children
• Identify and assess children’s specific vulnerabilities/ at-risk groups, put forward adequate response plans, and advocate other sectors for child protection mainstreaming
• Examine the provision of individual care through the case management process, and
• Review measures and provisions aimed to ensure protection from abuse, including sexual exploitation and abus

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Project structure:

The course will be organized for 10 days (5 days per week, max of 2 hours in a day) organized in 6 modules, with aims to strengthen and improve the skills and capacity of education and child protection professionals and other personnel’s profiles working or willing to work in humanitarian settings. 2 hours live over Zoom/ MS Teams, self-study, interaction via Jam board, zoom break out rooms, sharing resources via google drive (CP minimum standards, links to educational videos); mini-simulation and peer assessment, the content will be aligned with Project management cycle.

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