July 6, 2010
CPC Network Members Inform Wellcome Trust Investment in Research to Strengthen the Public Health Response in Disasters and Humanitarian Emergencies
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CPC Network members and Program on Forced Migration & Health Faculty Inform Wellcome Trust Investment in Research to Strengthen the Public Health Response in Disasters and Humanitarian Emergencies
Dr Alastair Ager served on the planning group for the recent (June 29-30, 2010) Wellcome Trust Frontiers Meeting addressing the specific topic of Research to Strengthen the Public Health Response in Disasters and [...]

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June 2, 2010
CPC Learning Network Strategic Planning Retreat in Bellagio, Italy
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The Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries Learning Network (CPC Learning Network) met in Bellagio, Italy in May 2010. The meeting afforded a unique opportunity for members and partners of the CPC Learning Network to collectively determine the Network’s priorities for the next three years and agree on procedures, structures and modalities to [...]

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February 3, 2010
Neil Boothby’s Miami Herald OpEd
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See the published version here Miami Herald, February 15th, 2010.
From the Spanish Civil War to the Genocide in Rwanda to the Asian Tsunami, outsiders have used tragedy as an occasion to evacuate girls and boys out of their homelands, usually with dire consequences. We see history repeating itself yet again in Haiti as international actors [...]

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January 11, 2010
What are we learning about protecting children in the community?
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Mike Wessells, the Save the Children Alliance, and a Reference Group comprised of members from the Oak Foundation, PULIH Indonesia, UNICEF, USAID-DCOF, and WorldVision International, have published a global, inter-agency review of the effectiveness of community-based child protection mechanisms.
Click here to download the Executive Summary.
Click here to download the Full Report.
From the Introduction of the [...]

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December 14, 2009
Long-term well-being of Palestinian Youth project funded by the Jacobs Foundation
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Brian Barber, director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence at the University of Tennessee, and CPC Learning Network Global Technical Group convener, has received a $1 million grant from the Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland to study the long-term well-being of Palestinian youth.
The project will allow Barber to build on the [...]

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November 23, 2009
Inter-Agency Resource Kit to Capture Key Child Protection Concerns
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The CPC is currently involved in the piloting and roll-out of the Inter-Agency Emergency Child Protection Resource Kit, an initiative of the Child Protection Working Group, with funding from UNICEF. Courtney Blake, a member of the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC) Learning Network, has just returned from a pilot site in [...]

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November 13, 2009
“Grave Violations” Survey in Central African Republic
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Professor Les Roberts and research assistants Kathleen Myer and Alina Potts conducted a nationwide survey of children’s rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) in collaboration with UNICEF.  The survey examined the “grave violations” of children’s rights that are to be monitored in selected conflicts according to the UN Security Council Resolution 1612, [...]

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September 11, 2009
Featured Partner: The CYES Network
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The Children, Youth and Economic Strengthening (CYES) Network is an effort, grounded in a series of partnerships across non-profit organizations, donor agencies and academics, to build a body of knowledge on effective economic strengthening programming for children and youth. It was formed in 2004, in response to a USAID workshop on supporting orphans [...]

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September 1, 2008
The CPC Learning Network
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Columbia University, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, UNICEF, ChildFund International, and several local organizations have established an Agency Learning Network on the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (the CPC Learning Network). The Learning Network is a direct product of the [...]

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