Capacity Statement: Child Protection

Approaches and Models

Child Protection and Advocacy (CP&A). The project model in the Ukraine Crisis Response is combined with Child Protection in Humanitarian interventions to best address the child protection risks and root causes in this emergency context. It involves structured psychological support activities at Child Friendly Spaces engaging children, their families, and community groups in tailored programs for child well-being. Besides, it focuses on enhancing the collaboration and interconnection between the formal and informal actors, whilst building the capacity of implementing partners, local authorities and other key stakeholders to address the root causes of violence against children and to increase their knowledge, capacity and skills to access and deliver services while adhering to the laws and acts relating to children rights, protection and participation.

Problem Management + (PM+). In Moldova psychologists and mental health professionals are trained on the PM+ approach to provide psychological counselling to adults enrolled in targeted formal and non-formal learning. The Problem Management Plus (PM+) is a psychological intervention for adults which can help people with depression, anxiety and stress. The approach is implemented to help Ukrainian refugees and Moldovan vulnerable community members improve their management of practical (unemployment, interpersonal conflict) and common (depression, anxiety, stress or grief ) mental health problems.

Positive Parenting. Conflict, loss, displacement and trauma have severe consequences for human well-being, especially for parents and caregivers who not only have to support and provide for themselves, but also for their families and children. In UCR the positive parenting approach supports conflict-affected parents and caregivers in regaining their parental confidence, learning new positive parenting skills, strengthening their parent-child relationships, building a support network among parents and processing their own needs and emotions.

3IMPACT + . With the guidance of World Vision Global Center Adolescent Lead and an external IMPACT+ consultant, World Vision in Moldova adapted the curriculum for the Moldovan context. The adapted curriculum is currently under translation into Ukrainian and Romanian languages. WVI UCR implements IMPACT + in Moldova and supports refugee and vulnerable community adolescent boys and girls in transitioning well into adulthood as active citizens empowered with competencies, values, confidence and social connectedness.

Integrating Child Protection, Education and Mental Health, and Psychosocial Support. As WV UCR is child focused, the response moves towards greater program integration for Child Wellbeing, Child Protection, Education, MHPSS for a more integrated programming approach. This integrated approach includes live-saving information and protection knowledge into school curriculums and sessions in the temporary learning spaces.

Locatization As a highly educated population (99.4% of people over 15 years old able to read and write), 83% tertiary enrolment and a highly developed and fast-growing technology sector, coupled with a thriving civil society, Ukraine is a prime location to advance WVI localization agenda. Most of the Child Protection agenda is implemented through local partners: World Vision has trained Child Protection partners in Child Protection and Safeguarding, Activity Catalogue for Child Friendly Spaces, Psychological First Aid, Case Management, Child Protection Referral system and the Child Protection in Humanitarian Action Minimum Standard.