Inter-agency child protection database
ECHO, UNICEF, Save The Children UK and International Rescue Committee
Highlights
Save the Children, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and UNICEF are working together on supporting the standard interagency child protection database to facilitate Family Tracing and Reunification, DDR and other vulnerable children programs.
Working with separated children, children associated with armed forces and armed groups and other especially vulnerable children are major components of UNICEF, IRC and Save the Children’s child protection programs, with family tracing and reintegration as a key element. Systems for gathering information, collating data,
and monitoring are central to this work.
A number of organizations have worked together over the past ten years to promote and support standard approaches to working with separated children including standard registration forms and guidelines. Within this context, Save the Children UK and IRC have been working on developing a shared database. In addition to family
tracing, the current database can be used as a case management and an information management tool to generate reports and analyses for vulnerable children such as on specific protection concerns. This includes for example, for children associated with armed forces and armed groups, on reasons why children are recruited; a child’s role within the armed group; and how, when and why they left. Such information is particularly useful for program planning, monitoring and evaluation and for our global advocacy work on child protection concerns.
