Implementing Minimum Standards for Child Protection - UNICEF 2013

March 2013 - Founded in 1946 UNICEF is mandated by the UN General Assembly to protect the rights of children and women in developing countries through its development and humanitarian assistance programming. In humanitarian emergencies UNICEF's activities include the provision of: commodities to treat severe acute malnutrition; safe drinking water sanitation facilities and hygiene programming; emergency education; basic healthcare; and protection services for children and women. With Canada's support UNICEF will support the ability of the humanitarian community to implement the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action launched in October 2012. The Minimum Standards aim to improve the quality predictability and accountability of child protection responses in humanitarian situations. The Minimum Standards will be implemented through training and dissemination activities technical assistance to humanitarian agencies and monitoring and evaluation of child protection programming.

Expected outputs include: produce translate and distribute copies of the Minimum Standards in French Spanish and Arabic; launch in collaboration with Governments Minimum Standards at six global and regional events and 15 national events; provide technical assistance for humanitarian agencies implementing the Minimum Standards through the deployment of child protection experts; develop guidance material on a variety of specific issues (gender child labour disaster risk reduction); develop training and orientation material on the Minimum Standards for practitioners; develop a tool to evaluate compliance of programming with the Minimum Standards; and monitor and evaluate compliance of agencies' policies and procedures with the Minimum Standards. Expected intermediate outcome: The reduced vulnerability of crisis-affected people especially children.