June 23-25, 2010: Learning Into Action
The Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) and CPC Learning Network co-hosted this three-day conference at the International Conference Center in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of this meeting was to improve the care and protection of children in crisis‐affected countries by bringing together practitioners and researchers to: 1) engage the global child protection community around new learning involving child protection practice; 2) increase understanding of different methodologies that can be used to strengthen program practice; and 3) reflect on the needs for evidence in the sector that can inform the wider CPWG learning agenda.
Day 1
Welcome Remarks, Neil Boothby, CPC Learning Network
Keynote Address: Evidence and Advances in the Treatment of Malnutrition, Dr. Stephen Collins, Valid International
Day 2
Plenary Session 1: Building Back Better: Myth of Reality, Neil Boothby, Bo Viktor Nylund, & Mallika Samaranayake
Breakout Groups, Session 1: Measurement of Child Protection Concerns, Children Associated with Armed Forces & Groups, Psychosocial Programming, Education
Plenary Session 2: The Ethics of Learning, Mike Wessells, Laura Boone, Jane Warburton, Clare Feinstein & Sarah Lilley
Breakout Groups, Session 2: Interim Care of Children, Child Friendly Spaces, Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Qualitative and Participatory Methods, Gender
Plenary Session 3: Evaluation, Sarah Lilley, Alastair Ager, Hannah Thompson & Guy Thompstone
Day 3
Plenary Session 4: Mapping Child Protection Systems, Bill Bell, Monika-Sandvik-Nylund, Bo Viktor Nylund, & Guy Thompstone
Plenary Session 5: Assessment, Ayda Eke, Courtney Blake, Wayne Bleier, Helene Ruud, Alastair Ager & Chrissie Gale
Breakout Groups, Session 3: Community-Based Protection Mechanisms, Gender-Based Violence, Participation, Livelihoods
Plenary Session 6: Learning Into Action, Santi Kusumaningrum, Sarah Lilley, Katy Barnett, Vincent Adude, Neil Boothby & Melissa Horn Abjua
Available presentations are posted below:
– Build Back Better: Myth or Reality? Tsunami Impact Studies in Indonesia and Sri Lanka and Lessons Learned, Mallika Samaranayake, IPID, and Neil Boothby, Columbia University
– Girl Mothers in Armed Forces and Groups and their Children in Northern Uganda, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Susan McKay
– What Are the Protection, Educational, and Psychosocial Outcomes of CFS for Young Children? Evidence From An IDP Camp in Northern Uganda, Michael Wessells, Columbia University
– Developing a Baseline on Violence in the School Environment in Cote D’Ivoire, Hannah Thompson, Save the Children
– SMS Surveillance and Response System for Child Protection in Indonesia, Center for Child Protection at the University of Indonesia
– Mapping and Assessment of Child Protection Systems in West Africa, Guy Thompsone, Child Frontiers
– Assessing Child Protection In Emergencies: Field Experience Using the Inter-Agency Emergency Child Protection Assessment Resource Toolkit, Columbia University
– From Incidents to Incidence: Measuring Sexual Violence Amidst War and Displacement, Lindsay Stark, Columbia University