This scoping review examines family-centered psychosocial interventions that support children affected by disasters, highlighting how caregiver well-being, family functioning, and developmentally appropriate approaches contribute to children’s recovery and resilience. It finds that while interventions show promise, evidence gaps remain for certain age groups and long-term outcomes, emphasizing the need to integrate family-centered approaches into disaster mental health systems.

From the 9th to the 11th of June 2026, 975 participants from across the globe came together for the 2026 Annual Meeting for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, hosted by the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action. This report provides an overview of the meeting.

This mapping aims to highlight promising laws, policies and practices relevant to family reunification for unaccompanied and separated refugee children and other children in need of international protection. The mapping aims to raise awareness of current legal, administrative, and programmatic barriers as well as highlight a range of promising practices that enable unaccompanied and separated children to reunite with parents or other caregivers across borders.

The Children’s Climate Risk Report provides the most comprehensive picture to date of the threat to children from the climate crisis and its impacts. In an unprecedented level of detail, it shows how children’s exposure to multiple, overlapping climate hazards, combined with their inherent physical vulnerabilities and gaps in the social services they rely on, undermines their rights and increases their risk of harm.

This report documents the history and achievements of the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR) from its origin in 2005 up to its consolidation with the integrated Protection Cluster at the end of 2025.

This brief examines how armed conflict affects children’s development and family life, drawing on attachment theory and insights from the war in Ukraine. It highlights both the harms of war and the resilience of families, emphasizing the need for targeted support to help caregivers and professionals provide safe, stable care for children during and after conflict.

​This paper outlines the practical experience of SEYAJ in implementing the "Protection Square" approach, which establishes an integrated framework for child safety by aligning the roles of families, local communities, educational institutions, and regulatory bodies. SEYAJ developed this model as a proactive strategy to strengthen protection mechanisms in high-risk environments.

This brief describes how UNICEF works with the Government of Ukraine and partners, including civil society, across three mutually reinforcing pillars to improve the protection and wellbeing of children returning and reintegrating.

Parents living through conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises faced extraordinary pressures that affected both their own wellbeing and their children’s development. This Global Parenting Initiative webinar brought together global and field-level perspectives to explore how parenting and psychosocial support could be better aligned within humanitarian systems.

This global brief examines how sustained humanitarian funding cuts since early 2025 are affecting children’s safety, access to protection services, and the overall capacity of child protection systems across humanitarian contexts. Drawing on insights from 401 practitioners across 68 countries, alongside key informant interviews, the analysis shows that what began as short-term financial disruption has evolved into systemic deterioration.