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Ending legalised violence against children: Prohibiting and eliminating corporal punishment in all alternative care and day care settings (1.4Mb)
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children, 2012
Corporal punishment is inflicted on children in nearly all societies and cultures. Its legal and social acceptance is a potent symbol of children’s perceived low status. Although it is just as violent to hit a child as it is to hit an adult, by 2011, only 32 states worldwide had recognised this in legislation. In the remaining 166 states, children can be legally subjected to violent, humiliating and degrading punishment by those whose role it is to take care of them. But all children have a right to legal protection from all violent punishment, however “light”, wherever they are and whoever the perpetrator. This report provides guidance on achieving law reform which gives children in alternative care and day care the protection from all forms of corporal and other cruel and degrading punishment that is their absolute right.
- A Practical Guide for Developing Child Friendly Spaces (2Mb)
UNICEF 2009
This guide is designed to assist UNICEF staff and partners, in establishing and operating Child Friendly Spaces (CFS) in an emergency. It attempts to provide readers with the main principles of a CFS and the processes on how to establish one.
The overall aim is to improve the standards and capacity of field staff, by providing the required knowledge to support the design and operations of child friendly spaces. It will facilitate an understanding of how to develop a CFS in contexts in which children’s well-being are threatened or damaged as a result of conflict or natural disasters. More specifically, this guide attempts to broaden and strengthen the knowledge, skills and attitudes of protection officers/field staff so that they are able to respond to the multi-faceted needs of children. - Applying the Standards - Improving quality childcare provision in east and central Africa (611.9Kb)
At the beginning of the 21st century, new challenges face practitioners and policy-makers who are concerned with the protection and care of children. The HIV pandemic is creating a rapidly escalating care crisis on top of pre-existing high levels of need arising from poverty, conflict, natural disasters and family breakdown. Despite these growing demands, government responses to children’s need for care and protection are weak and underdeveloped in many countries across the world, with an over-reliance on institutional care as a solution.
At an international level, UNICEF, International Social Services (ISS), Save the Children and others are engaged in advocacy efforts to establish international standards for children deprived of parental care. This publication will contribute to dialogue and action towards the establishment of such international childcare standards and guidelines, and their
translation into practical change at national and local levels. - Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 3 (5.2Mb)
Booklet 3 - Empowering Caregivers: Raising Awareness in Mothers and Fathers:
this is the last booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 3 illustrates a variety of developmentally appropriate parenting practices for preschool children and describes a series of awareness activities on Early Child Development directed at parents. Such activities could be implemented by any professional (social workers, nurses, teachers, paediatricians, etc.) who are in contact with parents of preschool children.
- Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 2 (4.7Mb)
Booklet 2 - Empowering Caregivers: Professionals with Direct Responsibility for Groups of Preschool Children (Kindergarten Teachers, Preschool Children’s Educators, Animators): this is the second booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 2 provides an overview of how children learn and what professionals with direct responsibility for groups of children (kindergarten teachers, preschool children’s educators and animators) can do to support their learning and development. The booklet includes a training guide for kindergarten teachers on Early Child Development. The training is structured in six basic modules (Child Development; Dealing with Children; Responsibility for Working with Young Children; Role of the Family; Children in Difficult Situations; Summary) and lasts fifty-one hours. A key component of the training is the Child Follow-Up File as a tool to monitor and support preschoolers’ development.
- Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 1 (4.6Mb)
Booklet 1 - Monitoring Development in Preschool Children:
this is the first booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 1 describes the developmental gains for children from the ages of three to five, illustrates indicators (developmental milestones) to monitor development in preschool children, and presents the Child Follow-Up File, a tool developed within the Gaza experience to monitor the children’s progress in the kindergarten.
- Working with preschool children - e-Toolkit on Early Childhood -Booklet 0 (5.2Mb)
Booklet 0 - Introduction to Working with Early Childhood:
this is the introductory booklet of the four-booklets e-Toolkit developed by Terre des Hommes Italy as a result of two years working with preschool children in the Gaza Strip. The e-Toolit is directed at professionals who would like to explore how principles of Early Child Development (ECD) – especially those focusing on preschool children – can be turned into projects and activities, this publication provides a series of working tools that can be used to address some of the recurring issues when dealing with preschoolers.
The Booklet 0 explains the genesis of the e-Toolkit and illustrates the reference framework (approach, core principles and basic concepts) on Early Child Development in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating their intervention.
- Caring for Child Survivors in Humanitarian Settings: IRC Fact Sheet (181Kb)
Traits et normes des EAEAF pour la RCA (12.8Kb)
A description of traits and norms with their desired characteristics for CFSs. (French)- Alternative Care for Children in Tsunami-affected Countries (289.8Kb)
Based on a UNICEF project for tsunami affected children in Malaysia, Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand. - Synthesis IMPACT CHARTS (52Kb)
A collection of questionnaires, results, and synthesis of an impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages, Gori district, Georgia. - Synthesis - impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages (40Kb)
A collection of questionnaires, results, and synthesis of an impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages, Gori district, Georgia. - Questionnaire to parents in villages (45Kb)
A collection of questionnaires, results, and synthesis of an impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages, Gori district, Georgia. 
Impact assessment DB children village (418.5Kb)
A collection of questionnaires, results, and synthesis of an impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages, Gori district, Georgia.- Impact assessment DB parents village (162Kb)
A collection of questionnaires, results, and synthesis of an impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages, Gori district, Georgia. - Children Question English village (295.5Kb)
A collection of questionnaires, results, and synthesis of an impact assessment done in Shida Kartli villages, Gori district, Georgia. - Child Friendly Spaces in Bangladesh (144Kb)
Set of minimum standards for creating CFSs from initial assessment to exit strategy. Standards include those for child protection, participation of children and communities, human resource management, physical facilities, psychosocial and recreation services, health care, food and nutrition, education and learning, orphan and separated children, birth registration, water and sanitation, and monitoring, evaluation and record keeping. - Child Friendly Spaces in Bangladesh (144Kb)
Set of minimum standards for creating CFSs from initial assessment to exit strategy. Standards include those for child protection, participation of children and communities, human resource management, physical facilities, psychosocial and recreation services, health care, food and nutrition, education and learning, orphan and separated children, birth registration, water and sanitation, and monitoring, evaluation and record keeping. - West Darfur: Minimum Standards for CFSs & Children\'s Centers (116.5Kb)
Final draft of minimum standards for Child Friendly Spaces and Children Centers adopted by the West Darfur Child Protection Working Group in 2007. - WCH-SL Induction Training Package (2.2Mb)
Training package developed for new staff, external trainers and community facilitators in Sierra Leone. Includes basic methodology, theory of child development, monitoring tools, and activities.
