Guidance on setting up prevention programs to reduce child protection risks to children and young people, and in particular to prevent commercial sexual exploitation.

Presentation by Linda Richter at the CCABA & IAS for the Meeting on Children and Especially Marginalized Populations on the 10-11th February 2010 in Geneva.

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.

Provides a broad range of dynamic group exercises on preventing, identifying, and responding to child protection by non-specialists.

Comprehensive manual on the theory and process of deinstitutionalization based on the experiences of childcare professionals across the European region.

Opinion editorial on risks associated with using intercountry adoption as an emergency response to the needs of children in Haiti.

Guidance on use of early psychosocial interventions in humanitarian responses to help to mitigate the effect of trauma, alleviating psychological distress, and strengthen resiliency.

Discusses risks associated with using adoption in emergency settings. Additional consideration given on where adoptions can be safely and appropriately facilitated for children with adoptions underway prior to the earthquake.

Online update on concerns around promoting adoption in an emergency context.

Member agencies of the Disasters Emergency Committee are calling for international focus to remain on reuniting children who have lost their families during the earthquake in Haiti rather than adopting them out of the country.