Preventing Separation

Children of Haiti: Milestones and Looking Forward at Six Months
UNICEF | Thursday, July 01, 2010
Report looking at the milestones met and challenges ahead in responding to the needs of children and communities in earthquake affected Haiti. Includes reporting on child protection specific needs and the situation of children without parental care. View document

Terms of Reference: Age Assessment Practices
UNICEF | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 69KB
UNICEF HQ seeks a consultant for a two month consultancy on age assessment methodologies. Registering a child’s birth is a vital step towards their protection. Any enforcement of minimum-age legislation depends upon an official record of children’s ages, whether it is to protect them from illegal recruitment by armed forces or armed groups, from early marriage or from hazardous forms of work. The purpose of this consultancy is to document different methodologies for age assessment and the instances when such methodologies would be used. View document

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
Inter-Agency Standing Committee | 2007 | 831KB
Guidelines for a multi-sectoral response to the most urgent mental health and psychosocial issues in emergency situations. View document

Issue Brief Number Three: Child Care, An Essential Service for Disaster Recovery
Save the Children | 2007 | 151KB
A short paper on the importance of child care provision as a critical service in helping local communities recover post disaster. It gives 4 policy recommendations for protecting and restoring child care infrastructure. View document

Mobility Mapping and Flow Diagrams: Tools for Family Tracing and Social Reintegration Work with Separated Children
Brigette De Lay, IRC | 2003 | 371KB
Detailed guidance on using drawing with children to facilitate documentation and tracing efforts, as well as a tool for reintegrating separated children into families. View document

Working with Separated Children - Field Guide and Training Manual
Save the Children | 1998 | 618KB
Comprehensive guide to programming for separated children. Includes chapters on agency co-ordination, prevention, documentation, tracing, reunification and emergency and interim care placements. View document

Action for the Rights of the Child (ARC): Separated Children
Save the Children Alliance, UNHCR, UNICEF and OHCHR | 1998 | 747KB
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. View document

The Lost Ones. Emergency Care and Family Tracing for Separated Children from Birth to Five Years
Save the Children Alliance, UNHCR, UNICEF and OHCHR | 2007 | 902KB
Guidance on how to care for the children under five who are separated from their families in emergencies. Includes chapters on tracing, registering, verification, reunification, and the provision of care to meet developmental needs. View document

Interagency Guiding Principles on Unaccompanied and Separated Children: FRENCH VERSION
Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children | Friday, February 19, 2010
The Guidelines from the IAWG provide some of the strongest direction for ensuring emergency efforts protect family unity and avoid child-family separation. Where family unity can not be preserved, these guidelines instruct on tracing and family reunification, care arrangements, durable arrangements, special issues related to refugee children, and promotion of children’s rights. View document

Guidance Note for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support: Haiti Earthquake Emergency Response
Inter-Agency Standing Committee | Friday, February 05, 2010
Provides guidance to organisations working in Haiti about how they can most appropriately communicate with communities, their own personnel and the media. The Guidance Note focuses mainly on the acute phase of the response (including early recovery) and provides basic guidance for action. View document