A number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are now actively promoting systems strengthening as a means to achieve more effective and efficient child protection responses. A systems approach places emphasis on the use of a holistic strategy and strategic partnerships to increase protection for all children, and moves away from backing small scale, vertical projects that only target high visibility, at-risk categories of children.
This Resource Guide aims to be a user-friendly and manageable document designed to provide an overview of the current system strengthening approaches, along with a series of resources and tools available to support systems strengthening in child protection. The guide includes programming and policy tools and resources designed to improve the national protection response at both the central and decentralized level, but focuses primarily on upstream interventions.
