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Key Focus of Priorities that Child Protection Actors should focus on
- 1. Child Protection in Africa Union Peace Support Operations Knowledge & Learning Event, 7-9 December 2015 Dakar, Senegal By Solange Vasse Key focus of priorities that Child Protection Actors should focus on
- 2. Where are we now? • Effect of “First Born Child” – always last on/for everything • Did we learn anything at all? – Cote d’Ivoire – DRC, CAR, South Sudan • Is Child Protection a priority of PSOs? • PSOs – AU/UN/Regional Organizations – No fundamental differences/variations (Mali – AFISMA, MINUSMA). – Same troops, personnel, challenges (human resources, poverty, budget, training, etc) • Child Protection Priorities – during or after conflicts??
- 3. Priority 1: Child Protection Mainstreaming • Security Sector Reform (Defense and Security Forces) – Key institutions, key specific aspects • Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programmes – Sustainables and comprehensives – Still too many challenges • Core Child Protection mandate of Uniformed Personnel – CP Units, SoPs, Directives
- 4. Priority 2: Child Protection Training • Streamlined, mandatory, harmonized and sustainable • Excellence/ Training Centers (AU, DPKO, others) • Rosters and databases • A matter of Policy. SSR AGAIN! • Cluster approach: • Protection/Child Protection Sub Cluster/ Country Task Forces (MRM..) • Coordination/ pooling of resources • ehdfbf
- 5. Priority 3: Protection of rights of children • 6 grave violations • In the context of PSOs (recruitment, use of schools • Listing (child recruitment no more political but technical issue) • Engagement with NSAs • MRM/MARA – response building • SEA (Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) • PoC Strategies • SoPs, • Specific protection: schools • cccvv
- 6. Priority 4: Information Management • Data collection • Not only on trainings and personnel but also on trends, incidents, grave violations and other important topics • UN Cloud and other tools (SAGE, PRIMERO) • Early Warning • Functional? • Specific indicators • SMART
- 7. Other burning issues to consider as priorities • Extremism and extreme violence • Long term threat • How to handle? • Strengthened relationships with Governments “We are foreigners working at the heart of matters touching on sovereignty of the states” • Accountability • Global Framework : ICC, Sanctions, Individual/Command responsibility… • Issue to keep in mind: CHILD RIGHTS and GENDER LENS!!!!
- 8. THANK YOU