Publications

Publications

Region-wide

Region-wide

By country

By country

By type

By type

Factsheets

Factsheets

UNICEF in Action

UNICEF in Action

Child protection

Child protection

Child Poverty Insights

Child Poverty Insights

Monitoring & Evaluation

Monitoring & Evaluation

Surveys

Surveys

Emergency M&E

Emergency M&E

Facts and Figures

Facts and Figures

Communication for Development

Communication for Development

Meetings & Workshops

Meetings & Workshops

Sexual exploitation

Sexual exploitation

N'Djamena Child Soldiers Conference

N'Djamena Child Soldiers Conference

 

Child protection

Conference

The Conference on Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa took place in Dakar from 7-9 May 2012.

Conference website: http://conference.imedia.sn/spip.php?rubrique1&lang=en
Conference wiki: http://wiki.childprotectionforum.org

Featured resource

Policy and Programming Resource Guide for Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa

Young people in West and Central Africa: Trends, Priorities, Investments and Partners

Below please find additional child protection resources.

Child protection systems

• Regional review of child protection information and monitoring systems in West and Central Africa
• Strengthening Child Protection Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A progress report based on country matrices
• Strengthening Child Protection Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Conference on Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conference Report
• Report on the Use of Technology from the Conference on Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Notes on Child Protection Systems in Fragile States
• Mapping and Assessing Child Protection Systems in West and Central Africa
• Mapping and Analysis of the Child Protection System in Sierra Leone
• Report of the Mapping and Analysis of Ghana's Child Protection System
• Child Protection Systems Mapping and Analysis in West and Central Africa
• Child Protection Framework for West and Central Africa
• Researchers' Training Package
• Reforço dos Sistemas de Proteção da Criança na África Subsariana (in Portuguese)

Child protective and social welfare services

• A handbook on adapting and implementing UNICEF’s Guidelines for the protection of the rights of child victims of trafficking at national level in West and Central Africa
• Mobile Technologies for Child Protection: A briefing note

Community protection mechanisms

• What Are We Learning About Protecting Children in the Community? An inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms in humanitarian and development settings (Executive Summary)
• What Are We Learning About Protecting Children in the Community? An inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms in humanitarian and development settings (Full report)

Justice for children

• Child‐Friendly Legal Aid in Africa
• How a Child in Conflict with the Law Moves Through the Cameroonian Justice System
• An Assessment of Cameroon's Justice System for Children: Formal and Traditional Responses to Children in Conflict with the Law and Child Victims
• An Assessment of Cameroon's Justice System for Children: Formal and Traditional Responses to Children in Conflict with the Law and Child Victims (Annex)

Violence against children

• Too often in silence - Report
• Too often in silence - Initiatives
• Too often in silence - Bibliography  
• Children Accused of Witchcraft: An anthropological study of contemporary practices in Africa

Child labour, migration and trafficking

• Child trafficking in Guinea-Bissau: An explorative study
• Child Domestic Workers: Evidence from West and Central Africa
• Children Working in Commercial Agriculture: Evidence from West and Central Africa
• Children Working in the Urban Informal Economy: Evidence from West and Central Africa
• Children Working in Mines and Quarries: Evidence from West and Central Africa
• Children Begging for Qur'anic School Masters: Evidence from West and Central Africa