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Henrik Häggström, Save the Children Sweden

Taking Stock & Moving Forward: Promise, Progress and Future Directions in the Field of Child Protection

This session will highlight how the CPC Learning Network will contribute to improving child protection on the ground; outline progress and promising practices to date; and, discuss future learning needs and their applications to practice and policy developments.

Neil Boothby, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

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Alastair Ager, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

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Interagency Practice Developments

The following sessions will focus on emerging and promising practice in the field of child protection and well-being. Please choose one of the following sessions to attend and then rotate (during a 20 minute break with refreshments) to attend another session of your choice.

SESSION I

Topic A:

A Simulation Exercise

Effective protection programming requires that global standards be tailored to particular social, cultural, economic, and crisis realities. The problems of one-size-fits-all programming are widely acknowledged. This session will outline a process for engaging children and adults in identifying what it means to “do well” and “have problems” in their own lives and communities. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in an exercise that simulates this ethnographic assessment methodology.

Room 18 Dejenne

Mona Zaghroot Hodali, YMCA Rehabilitation Program

Livia Iskander, PULIH Indonesia

Braxton Okot, University of Hull

Neil Boothby, Columbia University’s Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health

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Topic B

Beyond the Guesswork: Interagency Assessment in Emergencies

When an emergency erupts, what do we need to know early on to guide an effective child protection response? And how can we collect the necessary information and use it to identify key intervention priorities? This active discussion will invite participants to take stock of what information is needed, how to collect and use it, and how to raise the standard of evidence and interagency collaboration. Brief presentations outline how the global Child Protection Working Group has developed an interagency tool for assessing child protection issues and assets early in emergencies. Discussion will explore how to strengthen rapid assessment efforts and connect them with longer term efforts to strengthen the evidence base in the field of child protection.

Room 24 Copan

Brigitte Delay, Project Officer Child Protection, UNICEF

Eduardo Garcia Rolland, the International Rescue Committee

Mike Wessells, CCF and Columbia University’s Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health

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Topic C:

From Incidents to Incidence: The Epidemiology of Human Rights

This session will look at the collection of health information and its influence on human rights issues. Legal mechanisms rely on detailed collection of incident reports. Public health strategies rely on being able to measure and influence the incidence rates of events. There is an argument that we in the humanitarian community need to move from incidents to incidence. Several examples now exist of priorities being influenced by population based data. These examples will be highlighted and strategies for advancing population focused measures of justice will be proposed.

Room 19 Asante

Sara Lilley, Save the Children UK

Les Roberts, Columbia University’s Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health

11.05 – 11.25 – Break for refreshments

SESSION II:

Topic D:

Building Livelihoods: The Economics of Child Protection

This session will review the current state of economic programming targeting conflict-affected populations what’s working and what’s not. Shortcomings covered will include the lack of an evidence base for current interventions; the lack of misapplication of tools; and the impact of such on both program effectiveness and child protection. The session will also include new learning and activities underway to address existing shortcomings and will engage session participants on strategizing how to enhance economic program effectiveness and measurement.

Room 24 Copan

Dale Buscher, Women’s Refugee Commission

Africano Kasingye, Save the Children in Uganda

Jennine Carmichael, Academy for Educational Development

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Topic E:

From Emergency Response to Systems Development

Promoting protective systems for children is the key strategy to addressing child security and well-being. In an acute emergency, however, most agencies efforts aim to address discrete groups of vulnerable children, such as separated children, victims of gender-based violence, and children associated with fighting forces. This session will focus on new efforts and new learning on how to transform rudimentary emergency responses into protective systems and environments for children. Good practice examples from Aceh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and other crisis affected settings will be highlighted.

Room 19 Asante

Rebecca Symington, UNICEF

Katy Barnett, Save the Children

Calister Mtalo, UNICEF Afghanistan

Neil Boothby, Columbia University

Ron Pouwels, UNHCR

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Topic F

Evidence-Based Management and Programming

The time has come for evidence to determine practice and policy. During this session, examples of existing methodologies capable of yielding reliable and quantifiable data addressing a range of key child protection concerns will be briefly illustrated through examples of two programs: one, a CCF program seeking to support the reintegration of formerly abducted girls in Sierra Leone, and, the other, a Save the Children school-based intervention promoting resilience in northern Uganda. However, interagency collaboration is vital for the success of such evaluations. This session will conclude with a discussion of how best to promote interagency cooperation and identify key learning needs for practitioners and donors.

Room 18 Djenne

Despina Constandinides, Palestinian Red Crescent Society

Braxton Okot, University of Hull

Gaëlle Nizery, ECHO

Mike Wessells, CCF and Columbia University’s Program on Forced Migration at the Mailman School of Public Health

Alastair Ager, Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

Topic A:

Simulation to Establish Local Definitions of Child Protection and Well-Being

Room 18 Asante

Topic B:

Interagency Rapid Assessment Initiative

Room 24 Copan

Topic C:

From Incidents to Incidence: Epidemiology of Human Rights

Room 19 Djenne

14.35 – 14.55 Break for refreshments

SESSION II

Topic D:

Getting Livelihoods: Applying a Livelihoods Framework to Child Protection and Well-Being

Room 24 Copan

Topic E:

From Emergency Response to Systems Development

Room 19 Asante

Topic F:

Evidence-Based Management and Programming

Room 18 Djenne

Identifying Key Learning Needs

A panel representing the constituencies of donor organizations, international NGO staff and national based staff identify key issues that have arisen in the course of the day. Discussion is then opened into full plenary.

Hirut Tefferi, Child and Family Support Services

Lynne Schaberg, USAID

Alastair Ager, Columbia University’s Program on Forced Migration and Health at Mailman School of Public Health