Cycle 1 of the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme (CPiE PDP) in the Middle East and Eastern Europe region ran from September 2018 to April 2019. The programme aims to empower midlevel CPiE professionals from international and national NGOs, as well as government representatives, and strengthen their child protection response capabilities in both chronic crises and new emergencies. It also aims to build competencies to pass on the acquired knowledge and skills gained through the Programme to colleagues in their own and/or partner organizations. This report presents results from a survey administered to graduates of the programme to evaluate if and how the CPiE PDP has influenced their professional development and to what extent the graduates have practiced what they have learned.
The nine-month follow-up survey has shown that the CPiE PDP has influenced graduates’ professional development and the graduates have been practicing what they learned from the Programme in their daily work setting, training/workshop opportunities as trainers/facilitators, and during emergency deployments. The result also shows areas where the Programme Management Team could investigate further support for the professional development of the graduates: for example, by reactivating the peer network and providing information to the graduates on emergency deployments.
The result has also indicated that graduates have further developed themselves professionally in the last nine months after the graduation from the CPiE PDP. The emergency sector is expected to better utilize resources available, such as trained CPiE practitioners including graduates from this programme, to implement quality CPiE work in their countries or in the region.
