Convened by: Les Roberts of Columbia University

The essence of child protection is not easily captured in a standard survey tool and requires more nuanced and sensitive measurements. Program evaluation indicators may yield important findings but ministries of health and education, police departments and other local officials can and may already be collecting information as routine parts of their job functions. In addition, some of the current monitoring systems can offer important information about child protection once disaggregated by age. We can move the field forward by piloting new indicators and methodologies and integrating those that are demonstrating promising results into mainstream programming and evaluation. What measures are providing the most accurate and holistic description of protection? Which indicators are not working or need to be reworked?

The Methods GTG seeks to strengthen humanitarian assistance in conflict-affected settings through identification of better methodologies for investigating, monitoring and reporting protection concerns and human rights violations. It further aims to develop, pilot and refine assessment and evaluation methodologies capable of yielding reliable and quantifiable data on child protection.