Key Learning From Previous Day

Major themes arising from Day 2 will be summarized and linked to discussion centered around local Program Learning Groups and Global Technical Groups.

Hirut Tefferi, Child and Family Support Services

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

Act Locally, Learn Globally: Local Interagency Learning Laying the Foundation for Evidence-Based Programs

This session will focus on how to integrate local learning into global practice and policy. Consensus building amongst disparate agencies, buttressing already existing child protection networks, and using technology to share learning will be discussed. The session will briefly consider how Program Learning Groups fit into the larger CPC Learning Network, and, more specifically, the means by which robust, sustainable linkages can be built between Global Technical Group work strands and local child protection practitioner networks.

Irma Martam, PULIH Indonesia

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Despina Constandinides, Palestinian Red Crescent Society

Africano Kasingye, Save the Children in Uganda

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Rev. Jacob Ogwok, Institute for Development Studies, Northern Uganda

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

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Moving Forward: Planning a Learning Agenda for Strengthening Child Protection on the Ground

Participants will join one of a number of parallel groups that seek to plan a learning agenda for a core area of programming or practice. There will be one group meeting for each of the six Global Technical Groups (GTGs) established to date by the CPC Learning Network:

Economic Strengthening, Livelihoods & Child Protection

Room 31 Sida

Vision: To enhance the protection and well-being of conflict-affected children through the economic strengthening of their households.

Goals: To improve the design, quality and effectiveness of economic programming targeting conflict-affected populations as a means of enhancing the protection and well-being of affected children.

Dale Buscher, Women’s Refugee Commission

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Early Childhood Care and Development in Emergencies

Room 33 Stari Ras

Vision: Through a North-South / South-South dialogue, to ensure the development and implementation of effective tools, practices and policies to adequately respond to the holistic and diverse survival and developmental rights and needs of young children in emergency situations.

Goals: To analyze and synthesize information gathered from research, case studies, successful practices and tools from the fields of Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) and to use this information.

Arnaud Conchon, UNICEF

Louise Zimanyi, Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development

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Frameworks, Systems, and Assessments

Room 23 Quirigua

Vision: To identify, develop and promote effective tools for identifying child protection needs in crisis settings and guiding appropriate response.

Goals: To develop a structured series of national index reports; to provide a context for sharing and integrating learning from existing activities; to develop, support and refine ‘field-friendly’ tools for documentation and assessment in crisis settings; and to promote comprehensive and coherent approaches to the specification of child protection needs.

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

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Methods

Room 18 Djenne

Vision: To strengthen humanitarian assistance in conflict-affected settings through better methodologies for investigating, monitoring and reporting protection concerns and human rights violations.

Goals: To develop, pilot and refine assessment and evaluation methodologies capable of yielding reliable and quantifiable data on child protection.

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

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Psychosocial Well-Being

Room 22 Tierradentro

Vision: To be a more systematized, accountable field of psychosocial support in humanitarian crises in which strong evidence guides practice; to be a forum in which academic and NGO partners strengthen the evidence base through the collaboration of Southern and Northern partners and the use of conceptual frameworks, methodologies, and indicators that build on existing assets and resources, aid local empowerment, and respect the Do No Harm imperative; to conduct rigorous studies that help to expand the base of empirically proven practices that can be applied on a wide scale in humanitarian crises.

Goals: To (1) build the base of proven practice through multi-context, inter-agency research using rigorous methodologies, and to (2) create a global network of agencies that collaborate on strengthening capacities for evaluation and program learning and on advocacy to support evidence-based practice.

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

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Youth & Political Violence

Room 34 Tiwanaku

Vision: To facilitate integration between applied and research efforts on behalf of youth who experience and/or participate in war and ethno-political violence with the purpose of providing reliable and salient evidence to be implemented in practice and programming efforts

Goals: To generate reliable and salient evidence on the functioning and needs of conflict youth, and to facilitate the cooperation of diverse professional groups actively engaged in the service of conflict-youth

Brian Barber, Center for the International Study of Youth and Political Violence at the University of Tennessee

Conveners of the GTGs will present an overview of the proposed strategy and a preliminary action plan. Participants will be encouraged to shape this plan, identify resources and expertise relevant to it, and – where appropriate – signal interest in engaging with the work of the group.

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Joining the Conspiracy of Goodness

This session will explain the next steps for the CPC Learning Network and invite Summit participants to participate in future Learning Network activities. The session will end with the presentation of Stockholm Commitment to Child Protection to improve child protection on the ground.

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

Closing Remarks by Anders Pedersen, Chief of the Department of Empowerment at Sida.

Lunch and Farewell