Emergency Care Arrangements

Action for the Rights of the Child (ARC): Separated Children

View document Author: Save the Children Alliance, UNHCR, UNICEF and OHCHR
Date: 1998
File Size: 747KB

WHAT: A training resource pack on preventing the separation of children from their caregivers, assessing and locating separated children, care arrangements, family tracing and reunification, and monitoring and supporting separated children.

WHO: Trainers, practitioners, and managers working in pre and post emergency situations to prevent and respond to the separation of children.

WHERE: Global – for emergency preparation, in an emergency, and post emergency.

WHY: Contains a theoretical overview of issues relating to the separation of children and is accompanied by a variety of training tools including overheads, exercises, and handouts.

N.B. This resource follows the principles laid out in the Interagency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children, International Committee of the Red Cross, 2004 (included in this toolkit).