UAC/Alternative Care Guidance for the COVID-19 Situation – Iraq Child Protection Sub-Cluster

Iraq Child Protection Sub-Cluster

This guidance provides an overview of the risks associated with COVID-19 outbreak that could cause children to be left without appropriate parental care, and provides scenarios for where children may be identified as separated in Iraq due to issues related to COVID-19.

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Guidance Note: Protection of children during infectious disease outbreaks

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

This Guidance Note aims to provide humanitarian child protection practitioners, particularly child protection advisors and program managers, with guidance on how to engage in responses to infectious disease outbreaks to ensure children’s protection needs are taken into account in preparedness for, and during responses to, the outbreaks.

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