Published: October 2025
Author: Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, India, Information Briefs, Kenya, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

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.

Published: October 2025
Author: Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, India, Information Briefs, Kenya, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

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.

Published: no date
Author: Petit-Perrot, C. and Daniels, L. for Children’s Radio Foundation, South Africa, Cape Town.
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

A toolkit for using WhatsApp’s Radio Integration Platform, which allows radio content to reach people through WhatsApp on their devices. Written in South Africa, it’s designed to support radio initiatives across the African continent but could in theory be used anywhere where WhatsApp is available. The emphasis of this toolkit is about listeners interacting through conversations, and communities owning the content and shows.

Published: no date
Author: video4change.org
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

This online resource gives comprehensive instructions as to how to plan and make films with communities. It is a resource which seeks to hand power and control over to communities and as such is a very useful practical guide for anyone wanting to use video to strengthen community engagement and ownership.

Published: No date
Author: Bill Forbes, Alexander Krueger, Nicole Behnam, Philip Cook, Mike Wessells and John Williamson
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

This paper examines the most recent large-scale development in child protection work—the shift from individual child protection projects towards strengthening national child protection systems.

Published: No date
Author: Inter-Agency Standing Committee’s Reference Group on MHPSS in Emergency Settings
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources, Training materials and tools

Putting communities at the centre of humanitarian MHPSS response enables self-efficacy, reducing the impact of what is “delivered” and enhancing the significance of what is “built” together.

Published: No date
Author: Riva B. Kantowitz for Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network Columbia University
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

This paper seeks to articulate the main trends and challenges in the field of children affected by armed conflict. Its objective is to summarize lessons learned over the last decade, provoke reflection, generate questions and suggest potential strategies to improve the lives of more than one billion children affected by violence and deprivation.

Published: no date
Author: War Child Colombia
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

Una historia de resistencia y protección Guardia Indígena. Acciones para la protección comunitaria, defensa de los derechos humanos y construcción de memoria histórica en comunidades indigenas en los departamentos de Choco y Antioquia, Colombia.

Published: no date
Author: Medardo Rafael Barros B. & War Child Holland, Colombia
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources, Training materials and tools

Consultoría en derecho propio de la etnia Wounaan del Chocó, Colombia.

Published: No date
Author: Local2Global Protection
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources

The benefits of working using a sclr approach.

Published: No date
Author: Local2Global Protection
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources, Training materials and tools

“For those of you within larger organisations, both national and international, and members of the donor community who may be thinking about supporting initiatives defined and led by crisis affected people and groups, here are a number of factors and possible challenges which you should consider, and discuss with your colleagues.”

Published: May, 2020
Author: Beatrice M Halpaap † Joseph D Tucker † Don Mathanga, Noel Juban, Phyllis Awor, Nancy G Saravia, et al. for The Lancet Global Health
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Research, Resources

“Health innovation is often developed in response to local challenges, fueled from frontline health workers by unique needs and opportunities. Yet the power to scale up innovation is often vested in high-level authorities that have limited understanding of local contexts.

How can innovation in global health be sparked? A growing social innovation in health movement shows that innovation is more effective when it emerges bottom-up from low-income and middle-income countries.

Social innovation in health is a community engaged process that links social change and health improvement, drawing on the diverse strengths of local individuals and institutions. Social innovation argues that having local beneficiaries drive the development of a health programme results in more sustainable and accountable services. This commentary considers social innovation in health, including its history, tools for identifying social innovation, examples of social innovation, unanswered questions, and the next steps.”

The Lancet Global Health is an open source journal which can be read for free by registering on their site.

Published: May, 2020
Author: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources, Webinars and learning events

Maybe you joined the webinar launch of Working with communities to keep children safe (annex to the Inter-agency Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic)? Even if you missed it, you can now access the webinar recording as well as the presentation slides.

Read the PDF presentation: You can download a pdf of the presentation with notes here. Slides 15-16 are not fully functional as they are audio and video slides.

The link to slide 15 is “CELLPHILMS: A HOW TO” by Casey Burkholder – A 60 second cellphilm on how to make a cellphilm

The link to slide 16 is 18 year old Luzuko’s experience during COVID-19 pandemic, supported by RX Radio SA (Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town South Africa).

Watch the webinar: You can now watch the webinar on Facebook here. Please note that the presentation contains video and audio which can only be accessed by watching the recording of the webinar.

Read the guidance: Read Working with communities to keep children safe (annex to the Inter-agency Technical Note on the Protection of Children during the Coronavirus Pandemic).

Find practical tools: If you are looking for ideas and materials which can support this guidance, follow the links in the guidance and also visit the Exchange’s updated list of practical tools and materials here.

Published: May 2025
Author: Wessells, M., & Kostelny, K. (2025)
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, India, Kenya, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

A synthesis report of research from three countries around community-led child protection with actionable learning around shifting power to communities from child protection.

Published: May 2025
Author: Wessells, M., & Kostelny, K. (2025)
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, India, Kenya, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

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.

Published: May 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The sixth video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: May 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The seventh and final video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: March 2026
Author: Hibak Kalfan, Devex
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources

“As the aid ecosystem faces seismic changes, international groups must recognize that local systems of solidarity already exist — and their right to support these systems must be earned.”

Published: March 2025
Author: Ground Truth Solutions
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

A guide based on two years of conversations with people on the front lines of crisis. Over two years and across 12 countries, Ground Truth Solutions held more than 34,000 conversations with people experiencing crisis to find out what they want and need humanitarian action to do for them. They offer some clear priorities that should help us navigate this funding crisis.

Published: March 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

This video series offers an introduction to community-led child protection approaches and shares lessons from Ken and Joathem, two experienced facilitators who work in Marafa, Kenya. Follow along with the weekly video series to learn about key principles and skills for community-led child protection approaches, and use the weekly worksheets to reflect on how you could use these approaches in your own child protection work.

Join the WhatsApp learning group and receive the content straight to your phone. Just send a message to +27 787 458 832

Watch Viva Marafa! for a snapshot of a community protecting its children.

Read the background and introduction to the action research in Marafa, Kenya.

What to expect

Every week you will receive a short video and worksheet on your phone.

Each week focuses on a key consideration or skill required for a community-led child protection approach.

Each video comes with a worksheet that you can use for self-reflection or you might decide to form your own reflection group in your office, or your own WhatsApp group. You can invite colleagues to join this group even after the start date.

If you have questions, comments or other things you’d like to share, you are welcome to send them to Lucy. She will answer as many questions as possible and share her answers, your comments and other resources with the group (anonymously). This will include inviting you all to provide input on other participants questions from time to time to learn from diverse perspectives.

Rules of engagement

This group is a broadcast list so you will not see other people’s contact details or who is on the group. You can message Lucy directly of you’d like to share something with the whole group.

You can share any of the content you receive (videos, worksheets and stories) with your colleagues or other people who may be interested.

This group is a safe space. We are all here to learn so feel free to share opinions and ask questions. All questions are good questions!

This learning group is time-bound and will finish the week of 22 May 2022.

You can leave the group at any time for any reason simply by clicking on the Exchange WhatsApp profile then ‘edit’ then ‘delete contact’. Alternatively, ask Lucy to remove you.

We will never share your contact details with anyone for any purpose. We will keep your contact details for future announcements after this group has finished. If you’d like us to delete your details please let Lucy know.

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Videos

1. Introduction to community-led child protection approaches (release date: 28 March 2022)

2. Being a facilitator (release date: 4 April 2022)

3. Being humble and respectful (release date: 11 April 2022)

4. Enabling inclusive dialogue (release date: 18 April 2022)

5. Deep listening (release date: 25 April 2022)

6. Managing non-violent conflict (release date: 2 May 2022)

7. Building community consensus (release date: 9 May 2022)

Worksheets

1. Video Worksheet: Introduction to community-led child protection approaches (release date: 28 March 2022)

2. Video Worksheet: Being a facilitator (release date: 4 April 2022)

3. Video Worksheet: Being humble and respectful (release date: 11 April 2022)

4. Video Worksheet: Enabling inclusive dialogue (release date: 18 April 2022)

5. Video Worksheet: Deep listening (release date: 25 April 2022)

6. Video Worksheet: Managing non-violent conflict (release date: 2 May 2022)

7. Video Worksheet: Building community consensus (release date: 9 May 2022)

Published: March 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Research, Resources, Training materials and tools

This summary was developed as a background resource for the Exchange’s WhatsApp 2022 learning group. To read more about this group link here.

Published: March 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The first video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: March 2020
Author: Communy Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources

Our first 2020 newsletter focuses entirely on the current COVID-19 outbreak and unprecedented global efforts to try and contain this pandemic. As child protection practitioners, we’ve been asking ourselves how COVID-19 impacts children and communities, how we can continue to provide services and support, and how can prevention strategies be adapted to our contexts? Many practitioners might also be wondering how it will affect them professionally and personally.

We’ve collected together some key resources here which can help support strong community responses to the outbreak and help keep children, and the people they rely on, safe (and that includes practitioners!). It’s worth noting that we are all still learning about this new virus and promising community strategies. So far, there’s very little documentation of community level responses to COVID-19 that we can find. In the meantime, global agencies have been very quick to produce useful guidance and other materials, and we can also draw on previous learning from other infectious disease outbreaks, such as Ebola.

Read more here.

Published: June 2020
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources, Uncategorised

A LOT of guidance has been drafted on coronavirus and its impact on children since early March, including a range of “technical notes”. Here, we shine a spotlight on the technical notes which are relevant to children’s wellbeing, and how they might help guide our community-led child protection work during this time.

But firstly, what is a technical note? In the COVID-19 and children’s wellbeing context a technical note is a brief which lays out the main considerations as well as our understandings so far on how and why children are or could be impacted by the pandemic. The notes might also suggest how to address these issues programmatically and sometimes through advocacy and policy. Mostly, they are developed collaboratively between different agencies, and are designed to align with each other and other global guidance and tools, including the 2019 edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action.

Technical notes are very useful in helping us understand key issues affecting children during COVID-19, as well as focusing our thinking. However, as they are written for a global audience, we also need to ensure we read them from the perspective of the contexts where we are working.

Read more here.

Published: July 2025
Author: Alejandro Posada Bermudez for ALNAP
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources

“Localisation is now central to humanitarian reform, with many agencies naming it a priority and local actors continuing to demand it—yet confusion persists, as there is no shared definition and the term is often conflated with locally led action. While localisation aims to reform international aid structures by shifting power and fostering equitable partnerships, locally led action focuses on resourcing initiatives driven by local and national actors (L/NAs), often outside the aid system—requiring distinct strategies and offering different pathways for change.”.

A very useful brief on power-shifting for localisation but could still go further in terms of including communities themselves.

Published: February 2025
Author: Philip A. Fisher, PhD & Joan Lombardi, PhD
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

Bronfenbrenner’s ecological approach to human development—and early childhood in particular—remains highly influential in scholarly work, policy, and practice, but much has changed since its formulation. This paper proposes an updated version which incorporates more recent learning around neuroscience and the evolving challenges and contexts in contemporary America. The socio-ecological approach is an important framework for community-led child protection.

Published: April 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The third video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: April 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The fourth video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: April 2022
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The fifth video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: April 2020
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources

We had a great response to our first COVID-19 newsletter, and it’s clear that many of us are urgently looking for practical guidance and tools to help us carry out our work whilst dealing with all the challenges of COVID-19.

In the last few weeks A LOT of technical guidance and materials on COVID-19 have been developed. We are aiming to share all this information with you in an ongoing manner and in the most digestible way possible.

This edition of the newsletter focuses on practical ideas, resources and information hubs which can help you continue to operate your child protection programmes from a distance. You may be confined to your office or your house, yet there are still ways to provide a level of support and to keep in touch with communities. Use these resources to inspire you and adapt to your context.

Read more here.

Published: April 2020
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Resources, Training materials and tools

The second video worksheet in the Exchange’s 2022 video series and WhatsApp learning group.

Published: 2026
Author: Viswanathan, Vijayalakshmi et al.
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

“Across the sector, localisation has become an accepted idea. It has become the norm for international actors to incorporate country-based expertise into proposals and plans (often at donors’ request); to implement programmes through national and local actors to ensure smooth delivery (with cost-efficiency arguments still often playing a role); and, to a lesser extent, to give visibility to their “local partners”.”

Published: 2026
Author: Viswanathan, Vijayalakshmi et al.
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

“Building More Locally-Led Aid Ecosystems is an attempt to bring nuanced insights from Global South civil society on the hopes and struggles of daily realities, as well as their efforts to find a different way forward. Mimicking the realities in which many national and local organisations find themselves, the report looks both within the dominant international system and outside it.”

Published: 2026
Author: Lakshmi Neelakantan, Pattie P Gonsalves, Elizabeth M Westrupp
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Research, Resources

“This special issue aims to extend the field by examining co-design in preventive systems, exploring its application in community, family, and systems-level approaches that aim to prevent mental ill-health before it emerges. It aligns with the evolving prevention literature exploring how co-design can inform effective and scalable universal mental health prevention initiatives, particularly for young people (Carter, 2025; Hetrick & Sharma, 2025). In this editorial, we synthesise the contributions to this issue, examining the diversity of co-design frameworks and methods employed, engagement with equity considerations, and priorities for advancing co-design in prevention research.”

Published: 2025
Author: Posada, A. and Ahimbisibwe, L. for ALNAP/ODI Global
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

Multi-year research, led by ALNAP in partnership with Local2Global, explores the questions: Could the international system connect to truly locally led efforts? What happens when the conventional humanitarian system engages with and supports informal community-led initiatives?

Published: 2025
Author: Community-Led Innovation Partnership (CLIP) & Indigenous & Modern
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

“This report delves into the complexities of scaling locally-led humanitarian innovation, presenting findings from case studies across five countries: Guatemala, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, and Cameroon. Each case showcases unique perspectives on scaling that depart from traditional, Western frameworks — particularly Silicon Valley-inspired models focused on entrepreneurship. For local innovators, scaling is an organic process that emphasises social impact, community ownership, and contextual adaptation over universal application. This report synthesises these examples to provide recommendations on reimagining scaling from a locally-led, decolonial perspective.”

Published: 2025
Author: START Network/Community-Led Innovation Partnership (CLIP).
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Resources, Training materials and tools

“This toolkit […] distills insights, tools, and practices developed alongside our Hubs, members and partners, offering a practical guide for reflection, decision-making, adaptation and implementation. Designed for both Programme Teams and Community Innovators, the toolkit is deeply aligned with Start Network’s system change approach which can be further explored in our Systems Change Guide.”

Published: 2025
Author: NEAR
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

“This policy note outlines NEAR’s position on localisation. Localisation is a central issue for us as it is essential to our vision and our mission. We see localisation as a solution to the current challenges faced by the humanitarian system when responding to the needs of people affected by crises. In this policy note, we set out NEAR’s definition of localisation and the change we believe is necessary to better meet the needs of people in crises.”

Published: 2025
Author: Rinske E.C. Ellermeijer et al.
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

The aim of this mixed-methods study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a community-led child protection approach (Seeds) in La Guajira, Colombia.

Published: 2025
Author: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

This  paper begins with briefly introducing the focus of this year’s theme, providing key definitions and concepts being used in the paper, and defining three focus areas within the broad spectrum of approaches that facilitate localised, ground-up child protection. These are: 1. Strengthening context-relevant and community-owned child protection 2. Strengthening local systems and actors, including leadership 3. Child and community engagement in project cycles to facilitate accountability.

Published: 2025
Author: Rinske Ellermeijer et al.
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

This paper describes the iterative process of the development of a community-led child protection approach, including (1) a systematic review of the literature, (2) formative work in Uganda and Lebanon, (3) a field test in Sri Lanka and (4) a feasibility study in Colombia, with a review by technical experts. This process resulted in the identification of a six-phase community-led approach aiming to (i) enhance the protection of children and (ii) increase children’s sense of protection.

Published: 2025
Author: Gijs van Selm et al.
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Research, Resources

This paper examines the process of discussing and designing actions to tackle power inequities by Northern and Southern NGOs. Drawing on53 interviews with Northern and Southern NGOs, and NNGO networks, we argue that current localisation processes produce a form of cultural capital leveraged by competing Northern NGOs rooted in signalling solidarity with SNGOs and/or communities to donors through rhetorical and symbolic practices, reinforcing their access to and authority oversocial and economic capital as intermediaries.”

Published: 2025
Author: Ame Atsu David, Global Fund for Children
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources

A blog article on using a community-led approach to focus on girls in rural Sierra Leone.

Published: 2025
Author: Full Spectrum Coalition
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Research, Resources

“The Full Spectrum Coalition (FSC) envisions a world of thriving people and thriving places where community leaders, local collectives, and grassroots organisations lead sustained, multidimensional impact, supported by partnerships that elevate their visions, values, and potential. The FSC creates new partnership opportunities, generates innovative scientific understanding of how Holistic Community-led Development (HCLD) works, and informs better decision-making by funders, practitioners and policymakers. It thus contributes to the civil movement that seeks to uplift HCLD as a powerful, ethical, and sustainable approach to development.”

Published: 2024
Author: Inter-Agency Initiative to Enable Community Participation in Child Protection
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, India, Reports and consultations, Resources

Fostering Community Collaboration with Panchayat: Participatory Assessment of Needs and Appetite for Change to Enable Action (PANACEA) 2023-2024. “The introduction of Mission Vatsalya 2021, the erstwhile ICPS Scheme, mandates one of the panchayats’ standing committees to act as the Child Welfare and Protection Committee, emphasizing embedding child protection within local communities. The scheme directs Panchayats to integrate children’s issues into their Gram Panchayat Development Plans (GPDP) and allocates 5% of untied funds for child welfare and protection. These provisions establish vital foundations for promoting child protection at the grassroots level, enabling communities to engage in interventions concerning child welfare and protection, optimize resource allocation, and integrate cultural diversity into child-centric strategies.”

Published: 2024
Author: GFC and Tostan
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

“Global Fund for Children (GFC) and Tostan have forged a partnership over the past four years based on their shared commitment to promoting community wellbeing and empowering children, youth, women, and men to lead dignified lives. GFC invests in community-based organizations around the world to help children and youth achieve their full potential and advance their rights while Tostan is an Africa-based organization that works directly with networks of rural communities, empowering them to lead their own development. Tostan’s three-year Community Empowerment Program (CEP) has been instrumental in facilitating community-led initiatives, particularly in the realms of human rights, health, education, livelihoods, and the environment across entire districts. Tostan’s model emphasizes the importance of community ownership and broad civic engagement and results in sustainable and meaningful change.”

Published: 2024
Author: Drs. Kathleen Kostenly and Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

A case study of how community-led child protection approach was scaled up in Sierra Leone.

Published: 2023
Author: Michael Wessells, PhD. & Raksha Sule
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

This is the Report of a Consultancy conducted on behalf of the IASC Thematic Working Group on MHPSS & Peacebuilding within the IASC MHPSS Reference Group. The report was shared and discussed widely in four global consultations conducted July-September, 2022 with young people, grassroots practitioners, and policy and thought leaders.

Published: 2023
Author: Michael G. Wessells
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

In developing the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings, attention to social process was key for success. A reflection on this process by one of the authors, Michael G. Wessells.

Published: 2023
Author: Simone Di Vicenz & Elizabeth Hallinan for Christian Aid
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

“In the first weeks of the war after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ordinary people, host communities and spontaneous community groups sprang into action as first responders together with other local actors, including Ukrainian NGOs, church groups and volunteers. These first responders organically formed a humanitarian response based on their own resources and networks, connecting with like-minded helpers and local governments to expand and scale up.”

Published: 2023
Author: R.E.C. Ellermeijer, M.A. Robinson, A.F. Guevara, G. O’Hare, C.I.S. Veldhuizen, M. Wessells, R. Reis & M.J.D. Jordans
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

“This systematic review synthesises the current state of literature on community-level child protection in LMICs. The aim of the review is to present available evidence and effective strategies that implementing agencies can use to support community-level structures, practices, resources and processes.”

Published: 2023
Author: Kathleen Kostelny, Ken Ondoro, and Michael Wessells
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

“In an era of localization of aid and calls to share more power with communities, a valuable questions to be asked include ‘How could local people scale up a child protection intervention?’ and ‘What would a scale up effort driven by local communities look like, and could it achieve positive outcomes for children?’ “

Published: 2022
Author: Jessica Dolcy and Duquesne Prophete for Christian Aid
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

“On Saturday 14th August 2021 a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southwestern Haiti with devastating consequences. Christian Aid worked with local partner organisations Konbite pou Ranfose Aksyon Lakay (KORAL) and Service Jésuites aux Migrants (SJM) to implement the Haiti Earthquake Response which would test the sclr approach at scale for the first time in a complex emergency response in Haiti.”

Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, Plan India, & Praxis
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, India, Research, Resources

Action research for community-led child protection in Jharkhand State, India.

Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, Plan India, & Praxis
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, India, Information Briefs, Research, Resources

A short, illustrated story of a community-led initiative to end child marriages in Dhanbad, Jhakahand, India.

Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, Plan India, & Praxis
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, India, Information Briefs, Research, Resources

A short, illustrated story of a community-led initiative against school absenteeism in Khunti, Jharkhand, India.

Published: 2021
Author: Firelight Foundation
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

The power of grassroots-led change for long-term impact, and how funders can nurture it.

Published: 2021
Author: Glynis Clacherty
Resource Type: Case Studies, Research, Resources

Artbooks, which are a combined form of picture and story book created using mixed media, can be a simple yet powerful way of supporting children affected by war and displacement to tell their stories. They allow children to work through the creative arts, which protects them from being overwhelmed by difficult memories.

Published: 2021
Author: The Inter-Agency Core Group (CINI, Chetna Vikas, Child Resilience Alliance, PLAN India, & Praxis)
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, India, Research, Resources

Endline report of action research undertaken in Jharkhand state, India of community-led action to address child marriage and school dropout.

Published: 2021
Author: Firelight Foundation
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Resources, Tanzania

This report summarises achievements and learnings from an independent evaluation conducted by the AfriChild Centre of Excellence for the Study of the African Child, CBO grantee-partners’ reports, reports from community dialogues conducted by grantee-partners with their communities, consultant reports, and observations and reflections by Firelight staff.

Published: 2021
Author: Arbie Baguios, Maia King, Alex Martins and Rose Pinnington for ODI
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Resources

“Localisation and locally led international development practice has long been discussed, but has still not been delivered. Systemic barriers have posed challenges, and the term itself is contested. Now, the last tumultuous 18 months could provide a critical juncture to finally move forward with this crucial agenda. The pandemic has highlighted structural inequalities in the global system, and disrupted ways of working in the international development sector. The Black Lives Matter movement has brought conversations about racism and colonialism to the fore. And the climate crisis has highlighted the need for global action on humanity’s challenges that remain rooted in local realities.”

Published: 2021
Author: Local2Global Protection
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources

“Survivor and community-led crisis response (sclr) supports and resources individuals and communities responding to humanitarian and protection crises, whether sudden onset or protracted. The approach grew from research into how people respond to crisis, recognising that they are always the first and last responders in any context. It uses microgrants to transfer power and resources to existing and emergent self-help groups and organisations that mobilise during every crisis, allowing for the rapid provision of additional assistance to scale up interventions and increase their impact.”

Published: 2021
Author: Justin Corbett, Nils Carstensen and Simone Di Vicenz for The Humanitarian Practice Network at ODI
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

“This Network Paper introduces and explains existing knowledge and experience with an emerging way of working in humanitarian programming. For now, we call this approach ‘survivor- and community-led crisis response’ or ‘sclr’, as it seeks to enable external aid actors to connect with, support and strengthen crisis responses identified, designed, implemented and monitored by existing or new self-help groups among crisis-affected populations.”

Published: 2020
Author: Africa centres for disease control and prevention (AFRICA CDC)
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources

In Africa, the number of COVID-19 cases and impacted countries has been increasing steadily. As of 12 March 2020, 129 cases have been diagnosed in 12 countries, with one death recorded. The experience in countries outside Africa is that, after initial cases are diagnosed, community transmission occurs rapidly. Member States need to immediately implement individual social distancing and plan to implement community social distancing.

Published: 2020
Author: Kathleen Kostelny, Ken Ondoro, & Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

An endline study (Oct-Nov 2019) of action research undertaken in Marafa and Bamba, Kenya. The research aimed to develop and test systematically the effectiveness of more community owned processes of child protection that link with formal, government aspects of child protection, and to use the learning from the research to strengthen practice.

Published: 2020
Author: Kathleen Kostelny, Michael Wessells, and Ken Ondoro
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

Chapter 18 from N. Balvin, D. J. Christie (eds.), Children and Peace, Peace Psychology Book. Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22176-8_18

Published: 2020
Author: Nikola Balvin & Daniel J. Christie, Editors
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

Full publication from the Peace Psychology Book Series

Published: 2020
Author: MIRE–Mecanismo Intersectorial de Respuesta a Emergencias
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

Ficha de situación – Chocó: Quibdó. Comunidades de Villa nueva, Wounaan Phoboor y Wounaan la Paz.

Published: 2019
Author: Columbia University
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Resources, Training materials and tools

This online course examines how children’s social environments at different levels, such as the family, community and societal levels, influence children’s adversity, development and resilience. Course participants will engage in critical thought about current international child protection practice and how to strengthen it. The course will invite participants to identify opportunities for using the learning from science and practice, to enrich current child protection approaches in humanitarian settings. Learn more and enroll here.

Published: 2019
Author: 6th Barefoot Guide Writers' Collective
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

“This book is the fruit of eighteen months of intense, lively collaboration by twenty-three people from seven countries on five continents! It is not about heroic leadership but, quite the opposite, about leadership that works generatively with life.”

This is a big (27MB) download so we’ve linked to the Barefoot Collective’s download page here.

Published: 2019
Author: The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Resources

The updated 2019 edition of this global guidance for minimum standards for child protection in humanitarian action.

Published: 2019
Author: UNICEF
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Resources, Training materials and tools

The operational guidelines are designed and intended to help UNICEF staff and partners support and promote safe, nurturing environments for children’s recovery, psychosocial wellbeing and protection. The guidelines present an operational framework that emphasizes engaging actors at all levels (children, caregivers, families and community service providers) to design and implement MHPSS strategies that
are locally relevant, comprehensive and sustainable in order to more effectively restore, strengthen, and mobilize family and community supports and systems with the ultimate goal of supporting child and family wellbeing in humanitarian settings.

Published: 2019
Author: Sabrina Hermosilla, Janna Metzler, Kevin Savage, Miriam Musa and Alastair Ager
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

Humanitarian crises present major threats to the wellbeing of children. These threats include risks of violence, abduction and abuse, emotional distress and the disruption of development. Humanitarian response efforts frequently address these threats through psychosocial programming. Systematic reviews have demonstrated the weak evidence-base regarding the impact of such interventions. This analysis assesses the impact of Child Friendly Spaces (CFS), one such commonly implemented intervention after humanitarian emergencies.

Published: 2019
Author: Beniamino Cislaghi
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Research, Resources

Many of the programmes that achieve gender norms transformation in low- and middle-income countries are conducted at ‘community’ level. These programmes help people address existing relations of gender and power in their family and broader social networks. There are several programmatic strategies for community-level interventions that transform gender relations. This think piece looks at how community-led approaches can help transform harmful gender norms.

Published: 2019
Author: Glynis Clacherty
Resource Type: Research, Resources

Migrant children are often represented through stereotypical narratives by media, governments and even researchers. These representations range from institutional narratives that reduce their experience to “pre-flight, flight, post flight” to psychological narratives that can represent them as traumatized victims of war.

Published: 2018
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange for the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI)
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Resources, Tanzania, Training materials and tools, Uganda, Webinars and learning events

A themes-focused report back of the workshops held in Kampala and Arusha 30 Jan-01 Feb and 06 Feb-08 Feb, 2018. These workshops were designed to create the time and space for practitioners in Uganda and Tanzania to reflect deeply on aspects of their own organisation’s community-based child protection work, learn about each others’ work and other evidence and learning, and to think about how they might employ some different approaches moving forward.

Published: 2018
Author: Written by Glynis Clacherty, edited by Lucy Hillier, with contributions from Mike Wessells for the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI)
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources, Uganda

This case study tells the story of a child protection programme developed by a community-based organisation called Children of the World that works in villages in northern Uganda. The Children of the World programme was chosen for this set of case studies because of its focus on the importance of a personal psychological process for real sustainable child protection.

Published: 2018
Author: Written by Glynis Clacherty, edited by Lucy Hillier, with contributions from Mike Wessells for the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI)
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources, Uganda

This case study tells the story of a regional association set up by truckers to protect children, in particular to stop truck drivers from picking up girls under 18 in the towns along the Uganda section of the Kampala-Mombasa trucking route. It tells the story of some of the truckers who took a stand against sexual exploitation of under-age girls as individuals and how they approached the Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau (URHB) to help them with technical information.

Published: 2018
Author: Written by Glynis Clacherty, edited by Lucy Hillier, with contributions from Mike Wessells. Photographs by James Clacherty.
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Resources, Tanzania

A case study collaboration between the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI) on community-based child protection mechanisms, the Community Child Protection Exchange, and Kwa Wazee, Tanzania.

Published: 2018
Author: Written by Glynis Clacherty, edited by Lucy Hillier, with contributions from Mike Wessells. Photographs by James Clacherty.
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Resources, Tanzania

A case study collaboration between the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI) on community-based child protection mechanisms, the Community Child Protection Exchange, and Tanzanian Home Economics Association (TAHEA).

Published: 2018
Author: The Interagecy Learning Initiative on Community-Based Child Protection and Systems Strenghtening
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources, Webinars and learning events

We came together as child protection actors from global, regional, national and local contexts to reflect on progress to date, and to identify next steps, in supporting stronger community-led or “bottom-up” approaches to strengthening child protection systems.  We renewed our commitment to putting communities in the driving seat to protect their own children and we successfully agreed at the meeting how we would take action forward.

Published: 2018
Author: Terre Des Hommes
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Resources

A short brief on how TDH approaches working with communities and connecting formal and informal actors for child protection.

Published: 2018
Author: Bon Pasteur Kolwezi/GSIF
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Research, Resources

A short brief about research (2018) undertaken in Kolwezi in the DRC. Sustainable, low-carbon future seems unthinkable without batteries and cobalt. Yet the human and environmental costs of cobalt production are unsustainable for the communities living at the ‘upstream’ end of the supply chain. While the market price of cobalt tripled in the past 2 years, human rights conditions in the mining communities of Kolwezi (DRC), the global capital of cobalt, have not improved accordingly, and, for many, have declined.

Published: 2018
Author: Mark Canavera et al. with Good Shepherd International Foundation
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

The goal of this document – and the research process that underpins it – is to articulate the model that the Good Shepherd Sisters (GSS) have been implementing in Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). By consulting with stakeholders from multiple levels – the Good Shepherd Sisters and their staff, participants in their programmes, community members who are not involved in the programme, government and non-government partners, and mining company representatives – we aimed to document what the Good Shepherd Sisters have been doing in Kolwezi over the past five years with an eye to provide constructive recommendations about the future of the programme, which is currently under review for possible replication in areas around Kolwezi.

Published: 2018
Author: Mark Canavera et al. avec Good Shepherd International Foundation
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

Le but de ce document et le processus de recherche qui le sous-tend est d’articuler le modèle que les Soeurs du Bon Pasteur (GSS) ont mis en place à Kolwezi en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC). En consultant des intervenants de multiples niveaux les Soeurs du Bon Pasteur et leur personnel, les participants de leurs programmes, les membres de la communauté qui ne participent pas au programme, les partenaires gouvernementaux et non gouvernementaux et les représentants des sociétés minières, nous avons cherché à documenter ce que les Soeurs du Bon Pasteur ont réalisées à Kolwezi au cours des cinq dernières années dans le but de fournir des recommandations constructives sur l’avenir du programme, qui est actuellement en cours de révision pour une réplication possible dans les zones situées autour de Kolwezi.

Published: 2018
Author: Clacherty, G. published by the Interagency Learning Intitative on Community Based Child Protection, the Community Child Protection Exchange and TPO Uganda
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Research, Resources, Uganda

A case study collaboration between the Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI) on community-based child protection mechanisms, the Community Child Protection Exchange, and TPO Uganda.

Published: 2018
Author: Michael G. Wessells for the Child Resilience Alliance
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Resources, Training materials and tools

The terms “community-based” and “community-led” are often used interchangeably, but there is in fact a world of difference between these two approaches. A community-led approach to child protection is driven by the community themselves. Here, it is the community who holds the power and owns the process, not NGOs or outside experts. It is also the community who makes the decisions about which harms to children to address and how to address them.­­..Link to the online guide here.

Published: 2018
Author: Pearson, K.R., Bäckman, M., Grenni, S., Moriggi, A., Pisters, S. & de Vrieze, A. for SUSPLACE
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

A toolkit focusing on sustainable societies and creative, arts-based methods which can help communities work towards the goal of sustainability. This is a book which can inspire you and show you the power of creative approaches in community development, as well as teach you new skills and ways of thinking. The toolkit is Europe-focused and has an emphasis on the environment and nature, but many of its approaches and techniques, as well as its underlying theories, have global relevance and can be applied in different contexts, including child protection.

Published: 2018
Author: Global Communities
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Resources

A cross-sector example from the humanitarian response to disaster affected populations. Global Communities partners with communities to recover after natural disasters by addressing long-term needs and rebuilding climate-resilient infrastructure. It works with communities to strengthen their environmental resilience through climate change adaptation planning and disaster risk mitigation. The approach seeks to empower communities to identify, prioritise and find solutions to their most pressing needs. Haiti, Colombia, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico.

Published: 2018
Author: Jessica Kritz
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Research, Resources

A cross sector case study. Every urban slum creates challenges too complex for governments to resolve when working alone. Old Fadama, the largest slum in in Accra, Ghana, is home to over 100 000 people. Old Fadama has virtually no water or sanitation infrastructure, contributing to diminished quality of health and frequent cholera outbreaks when the nearby river floods. Our research introduces a model for cross-sector collaboration, supporting stakeholders who wanted to improve community health by installing latrines.

Published: 2018
Author: The Horn of Africa Regional Environmental Network
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

A training workshop manual provides guidance on how to collect real-life stories of change from community members by using video as a participatory evaluation tool. The manual provides detailed support on each step and can potentially be used beyond its original purpose to document and tell the story of the impact of a large project or a smaller community-owned action.

Published: 2017
Author: Morten Skovdal and Flora Cornish, Save the Children Fund
Resource Type: Research, Resources, Training materials and tools

A useful guide showing how practitioners can use qualitative research to improve practical programming.

Free download until 28 February 2017! http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780448534 Thereafter contact [email protected]

Published: 2017
Author: Morten Skovdal, Sitholubuhle Magutshwa-Zitha, Catherine Campbell, Constance Nyamukapa,and Simon Gregson
Resource Type: Research, Resources

A research article on how local organisations position themselves to be able to work with larger agencies on HIV issues in Zimbabwe. From the journal: Globalization and Health

Published: 2017
Author: UNHCR
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Resources

A report by UNHCR which seeks to help community-based protection actors and MHPSS practitioners understand the implications of their work for one another’s field of expertise including how they can collectively contribute to the wellbeing and protection of people affected by forced displacement.

Published: 2017
Author: Plan International
Resource Type: Case Studies, Reports and consultations, Resources

A case study which describes the community-based child protection programme implemented between 2015 and 2016 with Burundian girls, boys and adults in Mahama refugee camp in Rwanda.

Published: 2017
Author: Williamson, K., Gupta, P., Gillespie, L.A., Shannon, H. and Landis, D. for Oxfam GB.
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

The executive summary of an independent systematic review, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme which identifies, synthesizes and evaluates existing evidence of the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) in humanitarian crises since 1983.

Published: 2017
Author: Guest Editors: A. K. Shiva Kumar, Lorraine Sherr, Vivien Stern and Ramya Subrahmanian
Resource Type: Research, Resources

A Special Issue of Know Violence in Childhood: A Global Learning Initiative.Some community focused article are included.

Published: 2017
Author: Williamson, K., Gupta, P., Gillespie, L.A., Shannon, H. and Landis, D. for Oxfam GB
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

The full report of an independent systematic review, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme which identifies, synthesizes and evaluates existing evidence of the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) in humanitarian crises since 1983.

Published: 2017
Author: Williamson, K., Gupta, P., Gillespie, L.A., Shannon, H. and Landis, D. for Oxfam GB
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

The evidence brief of an independent systematic review, commissioned by the Humanitarian Evidence Programme which identifies, synthesizes and evaluates existing evidence of the impact of protection interventions.

Published: 2017
Author: The Fifth Barefoot Guide Writer’s Collective
Resource Type: Case Studies, Resources, Training materials and tools

Many organisations, large and small, are tackling the deep challenges of exclusion and coming up with creative, innovative and workable solutions that are putting into practice the policies and strategies that everyone is talking about. This Barefoot Guide, written by 34 practitioners from 16 different countries on all continents makes many of these successful approaches and solutions more visible.

Published: 2017
Author: Michael Wessells, David Lamin, Marie Manyeh, Dora King, Lindsay Stark, Sarah Lilley and Kathleen Kostelny
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

Chapter 5 of the publication “The Social Realities of Knowledge for Development: Sharing Lessons of Improving Development Processes with Evidence” published by the International Development Institute, 2017. Using Interagency Learning Initiative (ILI) action research in Sierra Leone, this chapter from a DfiD provides a case study on how a highly collaborative approach can enable child protection research to achieve a significant national impact. The chapter describes how the inter-agency research facilitated a community-driven approach to addressing teenage pregnancy.

Published: 2017
Author: Michael Wessells, Columbia University and Kathleen Kostelny, Columbia Group for Children in Adversity
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

Child rights are fundamental for ending violence and injustice against children and promoting children’s wellbeing. However, the top-down manner of introducing child rights is frequently problematic. Ethnographic research in Sierra Leone and Kenya indicates that top-down, impositional approaches to teaching child rights can lead local people to view child rights as a harm to children or to prefer traditional practices that can clash with human rights standards. To implement child rights, the use of a slow, respectful process of internally guided social change is recommended. To appear in M. Ruck, M. Peterson-Badali, and M. Freeman (Eds.) Handbook of Children’s Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Taylor and Francis.

Published: 2017
Author: Michael G. Wessells
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

This article, which introduces the 2nd Special Issue on Children and Armed Conflict, outlines 3 pillars of systemic supports for war-affected children: comprehensiveness, sustainability, and Do No Harm. It shows how supports should be multileveled, resilience-oriented, multidisciplinary, tailored to fit different subgroups, and attentive to issues of policy and funding.

Published: 2017
Author: Alejandro Silva for Terre des Hommes
Resource Type: Resources

MAPA is the result of the collaborative efforts to work with young people at risk or in conflict with the law. It is guided by Terre des Hommes-Lausanne Foundation and focuses on the exchange of experiences between experts and institutions with a long history of working with boys and girls, teenagers and young people living in situations of violence, drug abuse and any form of exploitation, in Nicaragua and other countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The approach looks at both the individual and the community with a focus on psychosocial aspects. This 76-page handbook describes the key methodologies used by the initiative across the globe and is useful for those wanting to explore how individual teens and the community intersect. It is specifically written for those working with marginalised teenagers and who are seeking to facilitate greater participation

Published: 2016
Author: Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone, Training materials and tools, Uganda

Mike Wessells’ presentation at the Kampala workshop 17-18 August 2016 where he discusses questions about community driven child protection which keep him awake at night.

Published: 2016
Author: Eddy Walakira
Resource Type: Case Studies, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Training materials and tools, Uganda, Webinars and learning events

This presentation looks at the results of a War Child Holland initiative in Northern Uganda around prevention of violence against children in a post war setting.

Published: 2016
Author: Patrick Onyango
Resource Type: Case Studies, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone, Training materials and tools, Uganda, Webinars and learning events

A presentation on girl mothers in armed forces and groups and their children in Northern Uganda, Liberia and Sierra Leone – Participatory Action Research to assess and improve their situations.

Published: 2016
Author: James Kobogozza
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Uganda, Webinars and learning events

An overview of a recent mapping of child protection systems in Uganda.

Published: 2016
Author: Kostelny, K., Lamin, D., Manyeh, M., Ondoro, K., Stark, L., Lilley, S., & Wessells, M.
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

The Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone disrupted the Interagency Learning Initiative’s action research on strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms. In response, ethnographic research was conducted to investigate the wider effects of the Ebola crisis as well as the specific effects on the community led intervention and problems related to teenage pregnancy.

Published: 2016
Author: International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD), Dr. Philip Cook, Michele Cook, Natasha Blanchet Cohen, Armel Oguniyi & Jean Sewanou
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Webinars and learning events

A final report on action research which looked at how communities can help drive monitoring, planning and action around social cohesion strengthening and child protection in Chad and Burundi.

Published: 2016
Author: Vanessa Currie and Cheryl Heykoop for International Institute for Child Rights and Development
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools, Webinars and learning events

Child-Centred Accountability and Protection Evaluation (CAPE) is a multi-institutional pilot project focused on assessing how the impact of child protection services and programs addressing sexual abuse and exploitation can be measured and evaluated from a child-centred perspective.

Published: 2016
Author: UCL and Stellenbosch University
Resource Type: Research, Resources

A 2016 review which builds on our knowledge and previous reviews (2009) of the effects of interventions, specifically psychosocial wellbeing, targeting children affected by HIV.

Published: 2016
Author: Columbia Group for Children in Adversity Inc., CINI, Chetna Vikas, Plan India, Praxis – Institute for Participatory Practices.
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, India, Research, Resources

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.

Published: 2016
Author: Child Frontiers on behalf of the Systems Strengthening and Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force - co-led by the CPC Learning Network and Plan International
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

This review targets actors supporting child protection responses in humanitarian settings. The document aims to provide an overview of child protection systems strengthening in emergencies practice to date, and propose certain key considerations with regards to systems for child protection practitioners.

Published: 2016
Author: Michael G. Wessells
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

An article featuring the rise of systems thinking evident in ecological frameworks and child protection systems, it emphasises resilience approaches and the movement away from deficits frameworks that underscore disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It also identifies numerous obstacles to achieving a comprehensive understanding of war-affected children. Primary among these are a weak evidence base, insufficient attention to contextual diversity, use of non-holistic approaches, and the marginalisation of children’s agency.

Published: 2015
Author: Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda

KiSwahili version of “Bottom-up approaches to strengthening child protection systems: Placing children, families, and communities at the center.” This article examines an alternative approach of community-driven, bottom-up work that enables non formal–formal collaboration and alignment, greater use of formal services, internally driven social change, and high levels of community ownership. From the journal: Child Abuse & Neglect

Published: 2015
Author: Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Kenya, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone, Uganda

This article examines an alternative approach of community-driven, bottom-up work that enables non formal–formal collaboration and alignment, greater use of formal services, internally driven social change, and high levels of community ownership. From the journal: Child Abuse & Neglect

Published: 2015
Author: Plan International
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Resources

PLAN International’s review of its global programmes for community-based child protection. NB this is a very large file: 50MB

Published: 2015
Author: Malherbe, N., Cornell, J., & Suffla, S. (Eds.) for Institute for Social & Health Sciences. University of South Africa.
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

A manual which provides excellent practical and detailed instruction and guidance on how to undertake a PhotoVoice activity with adults and/or children. The manual recommends a facilitation style which guides but does not lead or seek to provide answers or to influence.

Published: 2015
Author: Zeinab Hijazi for UNICEF
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

This is a compendium of psychosocial support (PSS) resources which is designed to support UNICEF’s global guidance on community-based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, including a framework that clearly shows the shift away from a Child Friendly Space focused approach to a more community-based approach. The compendium of resources supplements the global guidance through providing a set of resources that can be used in different field settings.

Published: 2015
Author: Kurt Madoerin. Kwa Wazee
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Resources, Tanzania

A background document on the Tatu Tano programme in Nshamba, Tanzania, Developed and implemented by Kwa Wazee.

Published: 2015
Author: Kurt Madoerin/Kwa Wazee
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Resources, Tanzania

An outline of the Tatu Tano programme and learning from 2015.

Published: 2015
Author: Praxis Institute for Participatory Practices
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, India, Reports and consultations, Resources

Democratising global policy making and processes through participatory research.

Published: 2014
Author: Kostelny, K., Wessells, M., & Ondoro, K.
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources

In diverse contexts, community-based child protection mechanisms (CBCPMs) are front line efforts to protect children from exploitation, abuse, violence, and neglect and to promote children’s well-being.

Published: 2014
Author: Kostelny, K., Wessells, M., & Ondoro, K.
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources

This research report is an output of the Interagency Learning Initiative on Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems. The technical leadership for the Initiative is provided by the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity.

Published: 2014
Author: Wessells, M., Kostelny, K., and Ondoro, K. For the Interagency Learning Initiative on Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources

Summary and Integrated Analysis: A grounded view of community-based child protection mechanisms and their linkages with the wider child protection system in three rural and urban areas in Kenya

Published: 2014
Author: Kostelny, K., Wessells, M., & Ondoro, K.
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources

This research report is an output of the Interagency Learning Initiative on Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems. The technical leadership for the Initiative is provided by the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity.

Published: 2014
Author: Mike Wessells, David Lamin, & Marie Manyeh
Resource Type: Case Studies, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

An overview of the Interagency Learning Initiative process of supporting community-driven action that addresses needs of vulnerable children in Bombali and Moyamba Districts of Sierra Leone.

Published: 2014
Author: Community Child Protection Exchange
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

A short round up of studies undertaken since the publication of the 2009 review “What are we learning about community based child protection mechanisms?” All the studies are hyperlinked.

Published: 2013
Author: Kostelny, K., Wessells, M., Chabeda-Barthe, J, & Ondoro, K
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources

A rapid ethnographic study in two urban slums in Mombasa, Kenya, of community-based child protection mechanisms and their links with the national child protection system

Published: 2013
Author: CPC Learning Network
Resource Type: Research, Resources, Uganda

This study looks at how people living in protracted refugee settings in Uganda protect their children.

Published: 2013
Author: Ken Ondoro, Kathleen Kostelny, Mike Wessells
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources, Webinars and learning events

Webinar presentation 28th Aug 2013 – Kenya, urban slums

Published: 2013
Author: The African Child Policy Forum; African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect; Environnement et Développement du Tiers-monde; International Social Service; Mouvement Africain des Enfants et Jeunes Travailleurs; Plan International; Regional Inter-agency Task Team on Children and AIDS; Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative; Save the Children; SOS Children’s Villages International; Terre des hommes; UNICEF; et World Vision..
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources

Addis Ababa, 6 Novembre 2013 – Treize agences travaillant en Afrique ont lancé une Déclaration Conjointe qui appelle les gouvernements africains à renforcer leurs systèmes de protection de l’enfance afin de garantir à chaque enfant, le droit à une vie sans violence, abus, exploitation et maltraitance dans les contextes d’urgence et de non-urgence.

Published: 2013
Author: Michael Wessells and Kathleen Kostelny
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

Natural helpers play a critical role in ensuring children’s safety during and in the aftermath of crises.

Published: 2012
Author: Child Protection in Crisis Network
Resource Type: Research, Resources, Uganda

The goal of this research is to take a bottom-up approach in examining existing CBCPMs in Arua and Nebbi districts in Uganda. By understanding how communities currently define, prevent, and respond to child protection violations and how local systems connect (or do not connect) to formal protection systems, these mechanisms may then be supported, and enhanced, rather than ignored or undermined.

With appropriate support, CBCPMs may be able to increase coverage and efficacy and even improve the implementation of locally appropriate strategies.

Published: 2012
Author: Inter-Agency Learning Initiative on Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems
Resource Type: Case Studies, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone

This document serves as a seven-page summary of the longer report included among these research documents, “An Ethnographic Study of Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and their Linkages with the National Child Protection System of Sierra Leone.”

Published: 2012
Author: REPSSI
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

The overall aims of the guidelines are to help young carers:

1.To feel more empowered (by the acquisition of new knowledge and skills) and less vulnerable in their role as young carers;

2.To feel more supported (by other individuals and groups) in their role as a young carer.

Published: 2012
Author: Plan International
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

This report describes the methodology used by Plan for their comparative analysis of community based child protection mechanisms. The report includes the full set of tools used.

Published: 2012
Author: Plan International
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Research, Resources

This report provides a child-friendly summary of Plan’s comparative analysis of community based child protection mechanisms.

Published: 2012
Author: CPC Learning Network and the Interagency Learning Initiative
Resource Type: Research, Resources

Lessons learned on conducting research drawn from a collective body of research undertaken by the CPC Learning Network and the Interagency Learning Initiative.

Published: 2012
Author: Principal Investigator, Mike Wessells, Columbia Group for Children in Adversity
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Kenya, Research, Resources

A rapid ethnographic study in two urban slums in Mombasa, Kenya, of community-based child protection mechanisms and their links with the national child protection systems. This is a four-page overview of the results of this study.

Published: 2012
Author: Neil Boothby, Mike Wessells, John Williamson,, Gillian Huebner, Kelly Canter, Eduardo Garcia Rolland, Vesna Kutlesic, Farah Bader, Lena Diaw, Maya Levine, Anita Malley, Kathleen Michels, Sonali Patel, Tanya Rasa, Fred Ssewamala, Vicki Walker
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda

A systematic review of evidence of effective early response strategies for children outside of family care.

Published: 2012
Author: Neil Boothby, Mike Wessells, John Williamson, Gillian Huebner, Kelly Canter, Eduardo Garcia Rolland , Vesna Kutlesic, Farah Bader, Lena Diaw, Maya Levine , Anita Malley, Kathleen Michels, Sonali Patel, Tanya Rasaj, Fred a Ssewamala , Vicki Walkerk
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

Published: 2011
Author: Kwa Wazee
Resource Type: Case Studies, Resources, Tanzania

A 2011 evaluation of the Kwa Wazee girl’s self-defence training initiative in Nshamba, Tanzania.

Published: 2011
Author: Child Protection in Crisis Network
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Uganda

In 2011, 320 children from across Uganda participated in a consultation on the nature of childhood in the country. Drawn from urban and rural areas children shared their hopes as they described what they saw ‘doing well’ as a child to mean. Over 150 parents also indicated their own aspirations for their children.

Published: 2011
Author: Susan McKay, Angela Veale, Miranda Worthen & Michael Wessells
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources, Uganda

In this paper, the authors describe an innovative ¢eld practice ^ community-based, participatory action research (PAR) that meaningfully involved formerly associated young mothers, and other vulnerable young mothers, in their communities.

Published: 2010
Author: REPSSI and TPO Uganda
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools, Uganda

Practical information about community-based psychosocial and mental health interventions in the aftermath of emergency situations. This learning is derived from the experiences of the Transcultural Psychosocial Organisation in Uganda (TPO) and REPSSI.

Published: 2010
Author: Alyson Eynon and Sarah Lilley for Save the Children UK on behalf of the Child Protection Working Group of the UN Protection Cluster
Resource Type: Case Studies, Resources

This discussion paper uses three case studies – Myanmar, the occupied Palestinian territories, and Timor Leste – to examine the state of evidence about strengthening national child protection systems through community-based mechanisms during emergencies.

Published: 2010
Author: Interagency working group on child protection systems in sub-Saharan Africa
Resource Type: Information Briefs, Resources, Training materials and tools

This Resource Guide is intended to provide practical tools and resources for two related groups of stakeholder users: Country level policy and decision makers and international and country level partners who are providing technical assistance and/or funding aimed at system strengthening.

Published: 2010
Author: Interagency Learning Initiative on Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems
Resource Type: Kenya, Research, Resources

A rapid ethnographic study in two urban slums in Mombasa, Kenya, of community-based child protection mechanisms and their links with the national child protection system.

Published: 2010
Author:
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Perspectives

Between 2011 and 2014 the Interagency Learning Group on community-based child protection mechanisms and child protection systems released a series of reports which document the development, implementation and preliminary findings of an innovative community-based child protection action research programme in Sierra Leone.

This ground-breaking research was conceived in response to concerns around the effectiveness and sustainability of common models of community-based child protection such as child protection committees or child protection focal points. For many years numerous international agencies, donors and governments have been incorporating these models into child protection policy and programming even though there is very little evidence demonstrating if, how and why these types of community approaches are effective.

The research findings so far are encouraging. They indicate that by taking adequate time – in partnership with the local community – to get a clearer picture of how people perceive and address childhood, child protection and risks to children, truly community-owned interventions which build on existing local structures and groups can be facilitated. In this particular case the communities targeted the high incidence of teenage pregnancies. Early evaluations suggest that the intervention has helped reduce the number of teenage pregnancies in communities, that it has strengthened community links to government health services and that the intervention has the potential to continue in the long term without direct external leadership.

Download and read the four-page brief on the implications of this work for community-based child protection implementation. This will be available soon!

Phase One: An ethnographic study to help us understand how communities in Sierra Leone approach protecting children

In 2011 the ethnographic study set out to try and identify local people’s concepts of childhood and child protection, what they perceive to be risks for children and how communities commonly respond to child protection concerns. This included looking at how community responses are linked to any “formal” child protection systems, such as the police, health services or social welfare.

Download and read the ethnographic study brief  here (7 pages)

Phase Two: Communities mobilise and participate in action research to reduce teenage pregnancy

The communities identified the problem of teenage pregnancy as a priority which they wanted to address in the next phase. Local people were frustrated because they had tried hard to reduce teenage pregnancy but had not succeeded. Looking for a more effective approach community people thought that engaging with government officials such as the staff at health posts could help communities reduce the problem. A collective “Task Force” was created by the communities which represented sub-groups – such as children, elders and women – and villages and which took responsibility for implementing the intervention with the support of locally-based facilitators and monitors.

Download and read an overview of the intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy here (14 pages)

Phase Three: Evaluations and community members report positive preliminary results

After a year of implementation preliminary findings were identified through a midline evaluation in 2014. Comparison villages were included in the baseline and midline evaluations to allow for comparison between teenagers taking part in the community-led intervention and teenagers with no intervention in their village. In addition, participatory workshops generated feedback and information.

Download and read the midline evaluation brief of the intervention here (18 pages)

Download and read the preliminary results of the participatory review workshops here (11 pages)

Download and read the baseline report here (60 pages)

Read about and watch the webinar with Lindsay Stark and Sarah Lilley recorded on 15th October 2014 here.

Next steps: 2014 and beyond

A plan is being implemented to progressively withdraw the external facilitators and monitors from the communities and to transfer these functions entirely to the communities.

The sustainability of the intervention over longer periods of time will also be tested including how the intervention can go to scale, by enabling similar intervention processes in the comparison chiefdoms and in other districts.

Published: 2010
Author: Dr. Lindsay Stark
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Perspectives

“Change That Counts” Results from the follow-up study of a community-led intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy in Sierra Leone

Access the recording of the webinar on the CPC Learning Network’s YouTube channel here.

Dr. Lindsay Stark, Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the CPC Learning Network and lead methodologist in developing this survey to measure children’s well-being, will present the process of designing the measurement tool as well what we are learning at the second data collection point, nearly a year after implementation began.

Sarah Lilley, deputy head of child protection at Save the Children UK and coordinator of the Interagency Learning Initiative on community-based child protection mechanisms and child protection systems, will serve as a respondent.

This webinar took place on 15th October at 09:00 New York, 14.00 UK, 15.00 Geneva, 15.00 Johannesburg, 16.00 Nairobi, 18.30 Colombo, 20.00 Bangkok, 21.00 Manila. The webinar lasts about 1hr 15 mins.

A short background article about the Sierra Leone studies and the full accompanying reports can be found here.

Published: 2010
Author: ChildFund International
Resource Type: Research, Resources, Training materials and tools

Simple tools and methods to research in a participatory way with children and youth, and to engage with communities from the very beginning.

Published: 2010
Author: Grace Onyango & Miranda Worthen
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Resources, Sierra Leone, Training materials and tools, Uganda

A guide for programmers and implementers based on the Participatory Action Research project with young mothers and their children in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Uganda.

Published: 2009
Author: Mike Wessells, lead consultant, on behalf of an Inter-Agency Working Group
Resource Type: Case Studies, Research, Resources

This 20-page executive summary presents an overview of the key findings from a 2009 inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms. The full report is also available in this research section.

Published: 2009
Author: Mike Wessells, lead consultant, on behalf of an Inter-Agency Working Group
Resource Type: Research, Resources

This 2009 inter-agency studied examined 160 documents about working with community-based groups for child protection.  While finding that the evidence base concerning the child protection outcomes achieved by such work, the report identified sets of factors that seemed to contribute to more effective community-based work and outlined promising practices.

Published: 2009
Author: Deborah Daro and Kenneth A Dodge
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Research, Resources

A research article which looks at five different community child abuse prevention efforts (in the USA) which focus on enhancing community capacity, including formal and informal resources, and local cultural contexts.

Published: 2009
Author: Theresa S. Betancourt and Timothy Williams
Resource Type: Research, Resources

This paper reviews what is currently known from research about the effectiveness of interventions to address mental health problems in children and adolescents affected by armed conflict. The focus will be on interventions delivered in conflict affected countries either during active humanitarian emergencies or during the post conflict period.

Published: 2009
Author: Torres, J., Camacho, F., Aguilar, J. & Hanson, E. for War Child Holland and Corporación Sumarse
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

Designed for children and young people who are doing a photography or art projects on children’s rights.

Published: 2008
Author: Sarah Lilley for Save the Children UK
Resource Type: Case Studies, Research, Resources

This 2008 discussion paper shares Save the Children’s experience in working with community-based groups; the paper is an effort to stimulate dialogue by highlighting the successes and challenges of such work.

Published: 2008
Author: Nicole Benham
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Resources

A Report of the Interagency Learning Initiative: Engaging Communities for Children’s Well-Being.

This 2008 report, commissioned by an inter-agency steering committee and produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development’s Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, drew largely upon interviews with practitioners to draw out factors that both enable and constrain good practice with regards to working with community-based child protection and welfare groups.

Published: 2008
Author: Nicole Benham for the Interagency Learning Initiative
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

A report which aims to identify key issues, as a step toward the development of a broad consensus on good practice in engaging with communities to promote children’s safety and wellbeing.

Published: 2008
Author: Kamal Kar with Robert Chambers
Resource Type: Community/locally-led: all sectors and settings, Resources, Training materials and tools

A cross sectoral example and guidance for community-led action to improve sanitation.

Published: 2008
Author: Kurt Madoerin. Published by REPSSI
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Resources, Tanzania, Training materials and tools

Several decades of experience in working with vulnerable children across the planet had resulted in Kurt coming to believe that in the face of family, community and societal disintegration, the single most important supportive “intervention” that could be offered “to”, and more importantly “with” children and youth, might be the mobilisation of children and youth into their own child-led and youth-led organisations.

Published: 2008
Author: Michael Wessells
Resource Type: Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

“Psychosocial assistance in emergencies plays an important role in alleviating suffering and promoting well-being, but it is often a source of unintended harm. A prerequisite for ethically appropriate support is awareness of how psychosocial programs may cause harm. This paper underscores the importance of attending to issues of coordination, dependency, politicization of aid, assessment, short-term assistance, imposition of outsider approaches, protection, and impact evaluation. With regard to each of these issues, it suggests practical steps that may be taken to reduce harm and maximize the humanitarian value of psychosocial assistance.”

Published: 2006
Author: Jill Donahue and Louis Mwewa
Resource Type: Case Studies, Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources

Case studies of mobilisation and capacity building to benefit vulnerable children in Malawi and Zambia.

Published: 2006
Author: Amnesty International
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

Amnesty International (2006) Ben ni walen/let’s agree and take action – mobilising for human rights using participatory theatre. Amnesty International. Amsterdam.

A guide on how to implement a theatre for development project which “contains basic guidelines and suggestions rather than giving step-by-step directions on how to develop programmes.”  Whilst the guide does set out to “teach” rights to some extent, there is also a focus on promoting a community assets-based approach and opening up dialogue and discussion and to reflect and decide how things could be changed, not to dictate.

Published: 2006
Author: Lunch, C., & Lunch, N. for InsightShare
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

A manual which is a comprehensive and practical guide written by practitioners for setting up and running participatory video projects anywhere in the world. This manual sets out to support communities to lead their own development and is therefore a promising tool which could potentially be used to support community-level child protection processes. The manual explicitly mentions endogenous innovation and horizontal learning as well as vertical learning, for example, for advocacy.

Published: 2005
Author: REPSSI
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

Building upon “The Journey of Life: A Community Workshop to Support Children,” this 2005 publication includes much of what is available in that earlier workshop manual but also includes a section for holding workshops with children.

Published: 2005
Author: B. Cope for War Child Holland
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

One-page music activities. The activities are simple but require preparation and practice to facilitate. While the focus is psychosocial, with no explanation as to how they impact on individuals and groups, they could be used as icebreakers, team building and for other objectives.

Published: 2005
Author: Glynis Clacherty and Professor David Donald
Resource Type: Case Studies, Reports and consultations, Resources, Tanzania

The aims of the Humuliza Project are to develop a practical instrument to enable

teachers and caregivers to support orphans psychologically and to develop the

orphans’ own capacity to cope with the loss of their caretakers.

Published: 2004
Author: REPSSI
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

This 2004 publication from the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative, is a workshop designed to raise awareness of the problems and needs of children. It provides guidelines on how the community can find solutions. It was developed in southern and eastern Africa but has been used in a variety of settings. This 49-page booklet includes instructions for the facilitator(s) and concrete workshop planning tools.

Published: 2002
Author: The Concerned for Working Children - Compiled and Edited by Nandana Reddy and Kavita Ratna
Resource Type: Community-led child protection, Reports and consultations, Research, Resources, Training materials and tools

A document which shares the body of knowledge acquired by the Concerned Working for Children, India, and questons which still need answering.

Published: 2001
Author: Sarah Earl, Fred Carden & Terry Smutylo. Foreword by Michael Quinn Patton
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools, Webinars and learning events

How can we really measure the the impact of our programmes? This book helps practitioners identify and set realistic expectations and goals for outcome mapping.

Published: 2001
Author: Save the Children UK
Resource Type: Resources, Training materials and tools

A training manual on how to use various theatre and arts approaches to help communities – both adults and children – unpack and understand power issues in their lives and how to undertake effective advocacy for child rights.