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2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is organising the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action on Zoom from the 9th to 11th of June 2026. This includes 3 days dedicated to the theme of the meeting, “Child Protection in a Resource-Constrained World: From...
HNPW 2026 | Climate Crisis Fuels Rising Violence Against Children: Evidence across Child Protection Research
Climate shocks are not only environmental crises; they are child protection crises. Droughts, floods, cyclones, and landslides can result in cascading vulnerabilities that heighten violence against children. Evidence across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia shows emerging patterns of economic stress...
HNPW 2026 | Locally Led, Globally Supported: Exploring Ways to Localise the Production and Sharing of Technical Knowledge
Humanitarian actors are facing unprecedented challenges: major and sudden funding cuts, reduced technical capacities, fewer capacity strengthening opportunities and rising expectations to deliver specialised, context-appropriate support in complex, protracted crises. Recent surveys from the Alliance...
Reflection | The Alliance's Participation at the Sixth Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action was pleased to participate in the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour from February 11th - 13th in Marrakesh, contributing expertise on specialised child protection prevention and response services, and on multisectoral...
CLOSED - Call for Abstracts for the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is organising the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action over a virtual platform between 8 - 11 June 2026 (TBC). This year's meeting will focus on the crucial theme: "Child Protection in a Resource-Constrained World...
Red Hand Day 2026
February 12th marks adoption of the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for the protection of children in armed conflict. Known as Red Hand Day, this international day of awareness reminds the global community of its responsibility to end the recruitment and use of...
Join the Alliance at HNPW 2026
Join the Alliance at the 2026 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week (HNPW) as we convene two interactive, evidence-driven sessions addressing some of the most urgent challenges facing humanitarian action today. From rethinking how technical knowledge is shared in a resource-constrained world...
Join Us at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
If you’re attending the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakesh, Morocco, the Alliance invites you to connect with us in person during the Conference — by joining our interactive session, visiting us at the Innovation Fair, and engaging with us during a thematic panel...
Explore the New CPHA–EiE Webpage: Strengthening Child Protection and Education Integration
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) are pleased to share the newly designed Child Protection and Education in Emergencies (CPHA–EiE) webpage . This page helps practitioners and partners easily navigate key...
Background Paper | Child Protection in a Resource-Constrained World: From Challenges in Financing to Innovative Solutions
This background paper sets the scene for the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, examining how escalating humanitarian needs, acute funding cuts, system-wide reforms, and the erosion of international humanitarian and human rights law are reshaping the operating...
2023-2024 Annual Report | The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) is a global network that facilitates inter-agency technical collaboration on child protection in all humanitarian contexts. This 2023-2024 Annual Report provides a summary of the Alliance’s activities and accomplishments guided...
New Survey: How Are Funding Cuts Affecting Children’s Protection?
One year after major global funding reductions, the Alliance is gathering updated evidence on how these ongoing cuts and humanitarian system changes are affecting children and child protection services. The survey takes 15–20 minutes, is anonymous, and is designed to capture experiences across...
Launch of Inter-Agency Guidance on Child Protection Case Management Data Categorisation
Child Protection Case Management (CPCM) is vital to supporting vulnerable children in humanitarian crises. Yet, without a common language for data, understanding risks, vulnerabilities, and service needs across contexts has been a major challenge. To address this, the Alliance has developed a new...
One Year On from the First Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children: A Call to Strengthen Commitment to Children Affected by Conflict and Crisis
It’s been one year since the first Global Ministerial Conference to End Violence Against Children, held in Bogotá in 2024 — a milestone moment that united governments and partners around a shared vision: A world where every child grows up safe and free from violence. Since then, there’s been...
Case Management Forms Video Series
Appropriate documentation by caseworkers is essential for effective and accountable child protection case management. The Case Management Forms — updated in 2024 — support consistent, ethical, and informed practice across humanitarian contexts. Each short video in this playlist explains the purpose...
New Case Management Forms Video Series!
Appropriate documentation by caseworkers is essential for effective and accountable child protection case management. The Case Management Forms — updated in 2024 — support consistent, ethical, and informed practice across humanitarian contexts. Each short video in this playlist explains the purpose...
Inter-agency Guidance on Child Protection Case Management Data Categorisation
Watch the Global Launch of the Guidance on Child Protection Case Management Data Categorisation here . Child Protection Case Management (CPCM) is a cornerstone of child protection in humanitarian settings. While numerous tools and guidelines exist, there is an opportunity to utilise CPCM data more...
Putting the Pieces Back Together: Centring Children and Their Protection in the Humanitarian Response in Gaza
With the ceasefire in Gaza and the scale-up of humanitarian assistance, the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action calls for children’s protection to be placed at the centre of the response. This statement outlines urgent priorities to meet the needs of Gaza’s 1.1 million children —...
Report | CPHA Practitioners Survey - Capacity and Learning Needs
The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (The Alliance), the Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR), and UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) conducted a joint survey on Capacities and Learning Needs in Child Protection in Humanitarian Action from May to August 2024. This joint...
Key Updates to the Advocacy Resource Pack: Humanitarian Reset, UN80 & the CAAC Agenda
Our Advocacy Resource Pack has been refreshed with several important updates and new materials: 🌍 Humanitarian Reset & UN80 View the latest updates, including reports and messaging on the UN's 80th anniversary reform process and the Humanitarian Reset, including on humanitarian and child protection...
Education and Child Protection - How to Use the New Online Guidance
In recent years, the Child Protection and Education in Emergencies sectors have been more intentional in working collaboratively to strengthen integrated and joint programming. INEE and the Alliance, working with a variety of members, have developed a Guidance Note to support implementation of joint...
Briefing Note: The Impact of UN80, the Humanitarian Reset, and Funding Cuts on the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Agenda
This note outlines how ongoing reforms, in particular the Humanitarian Reset and UN80 Initiative, underpinned by deepening funding cuts, risk undermining the Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) agenda. It provides recommendations to ensure that critical gains that have been made to address the...
The Alliance E-Learning Hub
The Alliance is committed to capacity strengthening for the child protection in humanitarian action workforce. Together, we develop quality learning materials and deliver them through face to face, online and blended learning opportunities. The Alliance E-Learning Hub is home to all of the Alliance...
Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups Task Force - Offer of Support
This Offer of Support outlines how the Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG) Task Force coordinates humanitarian and development actors to strengthen quality programming that prevents recruitment, facilitates release, and responds to the needs of CAAFAG in emergencies and...