This 5-week hybrid learning course, offered through the CAFO Research Center, explores the key pieces of effective family strengthening, such as learning how to identify families that need support, building relationships with families, helping families to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and creating a care plan to deliver services.  

Date: Tuesday 10 October 2023

Time: 10:00 (UTC/GMT +02:00 - Europe / Brussels)

Attend a pivotal panel discussion building on the findings and recommendations from the UN Special Rapporteur’s report – A study on the exploitation and sexual abuse of children in the context of travel and tourism; a closer look at the phenomena of voluntourism. Together with Ms. Mama Fatima Singhateh, the UN Special Rapporteur, and esteemed leaders from governments, private sector, and civil society organisations, we will dive into the UN Special Rapporteur report’s findings and recommendations.

Join this webinar to learn about the findings from the Contextual Safeguarding Across Borders (CSAB) project, a two-year study ran by the Contextual Safeguarding research programme at Durham University and funded by Porticus Foundation. This research sought to understand the applicability and feasibility of Contextual Safeguarding in international contexts.

This webinar will focus on Family Separation Prevention. Three experiences from countries in the region will be presented, where public authorities and their teams will share their advances and pending challenges in policies and family support programs.

The objective of this webinar is to present the best practices learnt in the implementation of the youth wellbeing project which focused on integrated mental health and wellbeing support for youth and particularly Young People with Lived Experience of Care.

Advancements in Child Protection Administrative Data and Solutions for Tackling Child Exploitation and Abuse

This event taking place in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on 20 September between 3.00-4.50 pm CET is to celebrate the one year anniversary of the joint statement on illegal intercountry adoption issued by the Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The concept note and agenda for this event is attached.

The 2023 SDG Summit will take place on 18-19 September 2023 in New York. It will mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals with high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030.