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Partnerships providing a sustainable response to child protection

Child Protection Systems. Partnerships providing a sustainable response to child protection. What do we mean by child protection?. Measures and structures to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence affecting children. Why are child protection systems needed?.

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Partnerships providing a sustainable response to child protection

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  1. Child Protection Systems Partnerships providing a sustainable response to child protection

  2. What do we mean by child protection? Measures and structures to prevent and respond to abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence affecting children.

  3. Why are child protection systems needed? To ensure universal and equitable protection of all children, especially the most vulnerable To promote and enforce good practice standards in the care and protection of children To formalise cooperation between sectors, levels and actors (Government, NGOs, humanitarian agencies, community based groups)

  4. Why are child protection systems needed? • To provide the basis for long-term and sustainable solutions • To efficiently manage and coordinate resources allocated for child protection across different issues and sectors • Focus on individual protection issues ignores that most children face multiple problems...

  5. Keys to successful NCPS…

  6. Informal mechanisms, the ‘first line of response’ Child Protection/Welfare Committees Community care groups Children’s or child rights clubs/groups OVC Committees Community watch groups… And many other voluntary, local associations that somehow address child protection issues (or CBCPMs)

  7. What makes CBPMs effective? Some Key elements… Community ownership Building on existing resources Support from leaders Child Participation Linkages with formal and informal systems: partnerships

  8. Connecting formal to informal… Informal mechanisms often not linked to formal structures Traditional ‘problem-solving’ which values family and community life (endogenous practices) X local perceptions about role and performance of formal mechanisms Lack of ownership over formal system, perceived as ‘foreign imposition’ National priorities not necessarily local priorities…

  9. Meeting the challenges… Take a respectful approach to child protection work at community level – work together, not top-down; Facilitate community ownership of community-based child protection groups, even during emergencies – strengthen local actors, don’t replace them; Change donor and agency practices in regard to the amount, structure and orientation of funding for community based child protection groups...

  10. The role of local, indigenous civil society… • Bridge the gap between formal and informal mechanisms – facilitate communities’ and children’s active and meaningful participation; • Document its own prevention and response practices, collect data and share lessons learned; • Fill service-gaps temporarily: influence and support the government to play its role;

  11. The role of local, indigenous civil society… • Partner with other actors to place child protection in the broader development agenda; • Participate in coordinating, oversight and regulatory mechanisms – remain accountable and part of the system!

  12. Some tasks ahead… Understand more about how social protection can further the aims of child protection; Secure commitment to promote children’s rights to protection learning from and in partnership with communities and children; Catalyze all lessons learned and resources available to develop and sustain child protection systems that address the needs of ALL children in a holistic manner.

  13. Some key references Barnett K and Wedge J (2010), Child Protection Systems in Emergencies. A discussion paper, Child Protection Working Group, UNICEF. Bell, Bill (2009), A 'Rough Guide' to Child Protection Systems, Save the Children. Child Frontiers (2011), Mapping and assessing child protection systems in West and Central Africa. A five-country analysis paper. Save the Children (2010), Building rights-based national child protection systems: a concept paper to support Save the Children’s work; Stockholm, Child Protection Initiative. Wessels M (2009), What are we Learning about Protecting Children in the Community: An inter-agency review of evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms; London, Save the Children UK. Wessels M (2011),An ethnographic study of community-based child protection mechanisms and their linkage with the national child protection system of Sierra Leone. The Columbia Group for Children in Adversity.

  14. Thank you! Denise Stuckenbruck Save the Children Child Protection Initiative Global Program Manager denise.stuckenbruck@rb.se http://resourcecentre.savethechildren.se/

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