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Key Focus of Priorities that Child Protection Actors should focus on
1. Child Protection in Africa Union Peace Support Operations
Knowledge & Learning Event, 7-9 December 2015
Dakar, Senegal
By Solange Vasse
Key focus of priorities that Child Protection Actors should
focus on
2. Where are we now?
• Effect of “First Born Child” – always last on/for everything
• Did we learn anything at all?
– Cote d’Ivoire
– DRC, CAR, South Sudan
• Is Child Protection a priority of PSOs?
• PSOs – AU/UN/Regional Organizations
– No fundamental differences/variations (Mali – AFISMA, MINUSMA).
– Same troops, personnel, challenges (human resources, poverty, budget,
training, etc)
• Child Protection Priorities – during or after conflicts??
3. Priority 1: Child Protection Mainstreaming
• Security Sector Reform (Defense and Security Forces)
– Key institutions, key specific aspects
• Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Programmes
– Sustainables and comprehensives
– Still too many challenges
• Core Child Protection mandate of Uniformed Personnel
– CP Units, SoPs, Directives
4. Priority 2: Child Protection Training
• Streamlined, mandatory, harmonized and sustainable
• Excellence/ Training Centers (AU, DPKO, others)
• Rosters and databases
• A matter of Policy. SSR AGAIN!
• Cluster approach:
• Protection/Child Protection Sub Cluster/ Country Task Forces (MRM..)
• Coordination/ pooling of resources
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5. Priority 3: Protection of rights of children
• 6 grave violations
• In the context of PSOs (recruitment, use of schools
• Listing (child recruitment no more political but technical issue)
• Engagement with NSAs
• MRM/MARA – response building
• SEA (Sexual Exploitation and Abuse)
• PoC Strategies
• SoPs,
• Specific protection: schools
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6. Priority 4: Information Management
• Data collection
• Not only on trainings and personnel but also on trends, incidents, grave
violations and other important topics
• UN Cloud and other tools (SAGE, PRIMERO)
• Early Warning
• Functional?
• Specific indicators
• SMART
7. Other burning issues to consider as priorities
• Extremism and extreme violence
• Long term threat
• How to handle?
• Strengthened relationships with Governments
“We are foreigners working at the heart of matters touching
on sovereignty of the states”
• Accountability
• Global Framework : ICC, Sanctions, Individual/Command
responsibility…
• Issue to keep in mind: CHILD RIGHTS and GENDER LENS!!!!