Protected! Podcast

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

The L&D Working Group is sharing a NEW Podcast Series to better equip CPHA practitioners to adapt child protection programming in the context of COVID-19 and other IDOs! Find the corresponding webinars and resources to the podcast here: https://alliancecpha.org/en/strengthening-capacity-cpha-practitioners-respond-times-covid-19

Subtitle: Caring for young children during COVID-19 (Part 2). Many governments around the world are debating or have initiated the second round of restrictions to combat the coronavirus. Back in May 2020 we spoke to early childhood expert Joan Lombardi, director of Early Opportunities. She told the Protected! host, Hani Mansourian, what she thought governments should be doing to support child protection professionals during the Covid-19 crisis. Five months on, do child protection professionals have what they need to support and protect children as the coronavirus makes a comeback? Take a look at the Alliance’s guidance on social protection policies and how these policies can be used to protect and support children. https://alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-online-library/guidance-social-protection-and-child-protection-how-join-forces And this is part one of the interview with Joan Lombardi, director of Early Opportunities. https://soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/protected-podcast-ep-5-featuring-joan-lombardi-on-caring-for-young-children This podcast was recorded on the 22 of May 2020.

The pandemic is difficult for children living and working on the street. How can you obey a stay-at-home order when home is not an option? How do you stick to basic hygiene precautions like regular hand washing, if there’s no water on tap? CWIN has been supporting children and advocating for their rights in Nepal for over 30 years. They continued to support these children during the lockdown and Pramila Manandhar, CWIN’s media officer, shared her experiences with Hani Mansourian. Take a look at the channels that CWIN runs on Youtube as part of their education and outreach work: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCub9HxEr8EzudlzUgImUj4A/videos For more resources on COVID-19 and child protection: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic This interview was recorded on 16 July 2020.

More children than ever called the CWIN child helpline 10-9-8 when lockdown measures begin in Nepal. The helpline team at the country’s oldest child rights organisation was on the streets supporting children daily, even as movement restrictions barred all but essential workers from operating. Sumnima Tuladhar, a founding member and executive director of CWIN, tells Hani Mansourian from the Alliance how the calls to the helpline changed when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Nepal. They discuss the processes drawn up to allow the helpline team to continue supporting children in dangerous situations. Plus Sumnima Tudladhar also talks about how the team kept themselves safe and the psycho-social support everybody in the organisation receives. Find out more about CWIN’s work: https://www.cwin.org.np/index.php/who-we-are/introduction And a deep dive into the types of calls the 10-9-8 Helpline received https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=7B317E7E9873B8B7!3560&ithint=file%2cxlsx&authkey=!ACTZMXWmQ8PQY4M And if you want to know more about how helplines can help your organisation support families remotely, take a look at this guidance note on child helplines and COVID-19 https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-online-library/technical-note-child-helplines-and-protection-children-during-covid This interview was recorded on 16 July 2020.

We asked one of the guests on the Protected! podcast, what drew them to the field of child protection. Stephen Blight from Unicef reflected on a memory from the 1990s, when he saw children being turned into fighters. Do you still remember the reasons you started working in child protection and what keeps you going?

Many girls and boys face violence at the hands of the very people they need to trust most. Their parents and close relatives. The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns have wiped out the income many families relied on to meet their basic needs. And that means overwhelmed adults and children have been confined to the same space for months, putting some kids at risk of violence. Stephen Blight from UNICEF talks to Hani Mansourian about UNICEF’s work to help communities and families support children during the pandemic. Unicef resources on positive parenting and the pandemic. https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/covid-19-parenting-tips#10 More strategies and policies on protecting children at home. https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-online-library/covid-19-protecting-children-violence-abuse-and-neglect-home This interview was recorded on the 10th of July, 2020.

Schools in Mongolia shut down in January 2020, long before many other countries considered nationwide school closures. Amarbayasgalan Erdenebileg from World Vision Mongolia tells Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator, what effect the school closure had on children in rural and urban settings. Plus, WVI Mongolia has developed different programs to help children cope with remote learning and staying at home. We discuss one remote learning plan designed to avoid the risk of online harms. Plus a simple but fun way to bring the family together and learn about positive parenting, that does not involve any screen time at all! For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic Get in touch with us if you like Protected! Podcast at podcast@alliancecpha.org This conversation was recorded on 1 July 2020.

Social norms govern how we behave in all the different communities that we move within and between. As the response to COVID-19 has altered how we live, the pandemic has influenced many norms around child rearing, from compulsory mask wearing, to physically-distanced grandparenting to hand washing. Plus the social norms affecting caregiving are shifting too. In your community, think about who is responsible for educating children since schools closed. Or what about the social norms affecting how kids can play together once the lockdowns or stay-at-home measures are lifted? We asked Mark Canavera, the co-director of the Care and Protection of Children Learning Network, at Columbia University to unpack this huge topic for us. He discusses child protection and social norms and how they influence each other with Hani Mansourian, the co-coordinator of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. Take a look at the technical note on working with communities to keep children safe here: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-online-library/working-communities-keep-children-safe-v11 Mark also mentions the African Movement of Working Children and Youth in the podcast. Take a closer look at the movement here: http://www.english.maejt.org/ For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to: soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic This interview was recorded on the 3rd of June, 2020.

When the coronavirus lockdown has shrunk your world to the four walls around you, Joan Lombardi, the director of Early Opportunities, shares about caring for young children under lockdown. This is part one of a two-part interview with Joan Lombardi on the Protected! Podcast. On the podcast this week, Hani Mansourian and Joan Lombardi talk about how responsive care and early childhood experiences shape a child’s development and future wellbeing within families and communities. They also cover how child protection actors can support families with young children during the COVID-19 crisis. Plus why good parenting can be like a game of tennis. Take a look at the parenting tips for the lockdown period and beyond. https://alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-online-library/tips-parenting-during-coronavirus-covid-19-outbreak For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to https://soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic Get in touch with us if you like Protected! Podcast at podcast@alliancecpha.org This podcast was recorded on the 22 of May 2020.

Protected! Ep.4 Child Labour and child protection risks during the pandemic with Selim Benaissa from ILO. The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many families into difficulties. And it has increased the risk of children being lured or forced into different types of work that are hazardous for their health, wellbeing and development. In this podcast, Hani Mansourian from the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action speaks with Selim Benaissa, Chief Technical Officer from the ILO on the Myanmar program from the elimination of child labour. They discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the program, which brings together the ILO, partner organisations, the government, workers and employers organisation and communitities to end child labour in the country. If you want to find out more about the ILO’s work in Myanmar. https://www.ilo.org/yangon/areas/childlabour/lang--en/index.htm Check out the technical note related to child labour from the Alliance: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/covid19childlabour For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to https://soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go here: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic Get in touch with us if you like Protected! Podcast at podcast@alliancecpha.org This conversation was recorded on the 4th of June 2020.

Governments shut borders quickly in eastern Africa as the threat of an outbreak of COVID-19 loomed. That left child protection actors with reduced access to the refugee children they support and the children themselves are facing more risks. Elsa Laurin, the Senior Child Protection Officer for the East and Horn of Africa from UNHCR, tells Hani Mansourian how they and their partner organisations re-prioritised cases in response to the changing situation. Plus Elsa explains why developing and supporting community networks is so important and how to make these networks even stronger. For more information on adapting case management to deal with health and movement restrictions have a look at some of the guidance on the Alliance CPHA’s website: https://alliancecpha.org/en/child-protection-webinars/webinar-adapting-child-protection-case-management-covid-19-context For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to https://soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go here: https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic Get in touch with us if you like Protected! Podcast at podcast@alliancecpha.org This conversation was recorded on 15 May 2020.

Have you ever wondered what happens when child protection actors have zero face-to-face access to the children and families they support? Plan International Lebanon faced that exact problem in March 2020, when the government imposed a curfew and state of emergency across the country. Elissa Alhassrouny, a child protection specialist with Plan International Lebanon, tells Hani Mansourian how their team moved to remote child protection programming and the steps involved in that process. If you are interested in programs helping vulnerable adolescents, check out some of the resources and guidance notes that Elissa Alhassrouny has shared: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a32T4iecScbfFANr2mvL_xceEefUSFpD/view?usp=sharing For more details on the Needs Assessment carried out in Lebanon that Elissa mentioned, have a look at this: https://plan-international.org/publications/covid-19-multi-sectoral-needs-assessment Plus the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action website has links to a wealth of resources on child protection and COVID-19:https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to https://soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic Get in touch with us if you like Protected! Podcast at podcast@alliancecpha.org This conversation was recorded on 6 May 2020.

This podcast is for all child protection actors everywhere. Wherever you are, hit the Play button now! Dr Zeinab Hijazi, the mental health and psychosocial support expert from UNICEF talks to Hani Mansourian, the Alliance's Co-coordinator about the coronavirus pandemic and its effects on mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. They discuss how child protection workers worldwide are dealing with the effects of both the virus and containment measures. Plus, how to look after our own mental health and our staff's wellbeing in these times. Dr Hijazi mentioned a couple of papers and briefing notes, so we put a list of them below. Here are the IASC guidelines that Dr Hijazi mentioned in the podcast, check them out. Link: https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/iasc-reference-group-mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-emergency-settings/interim-briefing You can download the different language versions of the children’s book, “My Hero is You”, scroll to the bottom of the page linked to below. Link: https://interagencystandingcommittee.org/iasc-reference-group-mental-health-and-psychosocial-support-emergency-settings/my-hero-you For the rest of this series, Protected! Podcast: COVID-19 Edition, go to https://soundcloud.com/alliancecpha/sets/protected-podcast-the-covid-19 For the rest of the resources related to child protection and COVID-19, please go https://www.alliancecpha.org/en/series-of-child-protection-materials/protection-children-during-covid-19-pandemic Get in touch with us if you like Protected! Podcast at podcast@alliancecpha.org This conversation was recorded on 9 April 2020.