Child Protection

WUCP has been providing protection programming for more than 10 years. Ongoing protection programs are currently being implemented in all regions of the world. Our Protection staff operates in a variety of emergency, conflict, and crisis settings, working with governments and NGO partners to create policy and programmatic changes to enhance the protection of vulnerable children. Our technical resources cover a range of sectors, including conflict, post-conflict, and reconstruction settings; transitional settings; children in chronic crisis and acute emergency settings; child exploitation and exploitative child labor, and trafficking. Specifically, key target areas for protection programming include exploited children, children affected by fighting forces (CAFF) and other vulnerable children. Key interventions include psychosocial wellbeing, community networks for protection, education programs in emergencies, creating safe spaces, anti-trafficking programming, developing national protection policies and child welfare reform, community mobilization and child-to-child interventions.