Child Protection in Crisis Uganda: March 2012 Learning Retreat Report

The Uganda PLG’s inaugural learning forum in March 2012 focused on Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms (CBCPMs) and their linkages with the National Child Protection Systems. The two-day conference brought together over 70 participants from government, academic institutions, community based organizations, and international agencies along with national child protection actors and researchers. Participants discussed the process of identifying and utilizing community based child protection systems, lessons to be learned from informal child protection systems, sector wide approaches to systems, lessons to be learned from informal child protection systems, sector wide approaches to systems strengthening, institutionalizing child protection and setting the Ugandan learning agenda for 2012-2015.