Operational Handbook for the Comprehensive Protection of Children in emergencies or disasters

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• # of community outreach child protection activities that include nutrition and breastfeeding messages. • # and type of child protection messages included in community and awareness-raising activities associated with nutrition. • # and type of child protection activities that provide suitable spaces for mothers to breastfeed their babies. • # and type of child protection activities that take place during nutritional programme activities.

Standard 22. Shelter and Child Protection Children and their caregivers have appropriate shelter provided that meets basic needs, including protection and longer-term solutions. Actions for Child Protection Actors

Actions for Shelter Actors

• Support shelter and settlement organizations in putting child protection actions into shelter and settlement services. • Ensure that key issues related to shelters, settlements and child-friendly spaces are considered appropriately in child protection assessments. • Include appropriate shelter- and settlement-related messages in community-based child protection activities • Ensure child protection workers are informed about where children and caregivers can find information and report any concerns about shelters and settlements.

• Ensure that child protection issues and child-friendly spaces are taken into account in shelter assessments. • Design shelter interventions that respond to size variables and needs of a community’s families. • Ensure that personnel working in shelter and settlement projects have adequate information and training on child protection issues.

Key Considerations and/or Indicators • # and type of procedures and information protocols established among child protection actors and shelter and settlement actors. • # and type of joint activities and/or comprehensive advocacy to create awareness on child protection and shelter and settlement actors. • % of child protection programmes that have assessed shelters and settlements from the point of view of child protection. • % of programmes in which monitoring and evaluation of shelter interventions include child protection indicators. • % of shelter and settlement staff who include the points of view of children, youth, men and the locality in their programme design.

Standard 23. Camp Management and Child Protection The basic needs, interests and safety concerns of children living in camps are adequately represented and safeguarded through effective camp management structures. 48


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