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Localizing Child Protection – Why Community Ownership Matters. Briefing Paper
Published: October 2025
Author: Mike Wessells
A Call to Action for Donors. This briefing paper outlines challenges to localizing child protection at community level in development and humanitarian work. It presents a Call to Action that emphasizes shifting more power to communities and supporting stronger community ownership through the use of community-led and -owned child protection approaches.
Localizing Child Protection at Community Level – How to Shift Power and Increase Community Ownership
Published: October 2025
Author: Mike Wessells
A Practice Brief – The era of localization presents both key challenges and opportunities in community-level child protection. This brief highlights how shifting power to communities and generating high levels of community ownership is fundamental for localizing child protection effectively and sustainably. It explores how child protection practitioners are key players in supporting a localized, evidence-based, community-led child protection approach.
Shifting Power, Localizing, and Strengthening Ownership: Three Country Learnings and Challenges in Community-Led Child Protection
Published: May 2025
Author: Wessells, M., & Kostelny, K. (2025)
A synthesis report of research from three countries around community-led child protection with actionable learning around shifting power to communities from child protection.
Executive Summary: Shifting Power, Localizing, and Strengthening Ownership: Three Country Learnings and Challenges in Community-Led Child Protection
Published: May 2025
Author: Wessells, M., & Kostelny, K. (2025)
Summary version of a synthesis report of research from three countries around community-led child protection with actionable learning around shifting power to communities from child protection.
Endline report: Community Action to Address Child Marriage and School Dropout: Findings from Action Research on Community-Led Child Protection in Jharkhand, India
Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, Plan India, & Praxis
Action research for community-led child protection in Jharkhand State, India.
CHILD BRIDES NO MORE! Story of a community-led Initiative against child marriages in Dhanbad, Jharkhand
Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, Plan India, & Praxis
A short, illustrated story of a community-led initiative to end child marriages in Dhanbad, Jhakahand, India.
A SCHOOL FOR EVERY CHILD! Story of a community-led Initiative against school absenteeism in Jharkhand
Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, Plan India, & Praxis
A short, illustrated story of a community-led initiative against school absenteeism in Khunti, Jharkhand, India.
Endline Report: Community Action to Address Child Marriage and School Dropout: Findings from Action Research on Community-Led Child Protection in Jharkhand, India
Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group (CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, PLAN India, & Praxis)
Endline report of action research undertaken in Jharkhand state, India of community-led action to address child marriage and school dropout.
In Pursuit of Safe Havens – a study of harms faced by children in Jharkhand state of India
Published: 2016
Author: Columbia Group for Children in Adversity Inc., CINI, Chetna Vikas, Plan India, Praxis – Institute for Participatory Practices.
Reflections from an inter-agency action research initiative aimed at learning from communities in Jharkhand state of India about harms faced by children and protections available to them.