A world changed, where all children - girls and boys - everywhere are protected.
This is the vision for Child Protection in International Development!
Mission.
My personal mission at Child Protection in International Development is to support individuals and organisations to do the best job they can so that their efforts to protect children and young people get the results they want.
I do this by:
Creating and managing a platform for sharing useful and timely resources (this website)
Promoting and sharing new thinking, knowledge and learning (by publishing regular blogs)
Supporting organisations to achieve more sustainable and gender sensitive results for children by providing advisory and consulting services in the following areas:
Knowledge generation: - gender-sensitive and equity data collection and analysis; programme reviews and evaluations; designing and testing innovation; writing lessons learned, concept notes, programme strategy notes, and theories of change
Technical support: - strategic planning and writing evidence-based strategies and plans; developing policies and advocacy plans; project and programme design; mapping decision making levels in Government to leverage policy and financial commitments for children; stakeholder and partner mapping; designing child safeguarding measures; workshop facilitation; and problem solving
Resource mobilization: - donor engagement, co-creation and collaboration; developing resource mobilization plans; editing donor proposals and reports; designing systems to document results achieved through investments by donors
Mentoring, coaching and team building: - mentoring in the broader themes of child protection in international development for individuals, groups and teams; coaching in specific competencies or technical areas of child protection for individuals, groups and teams; capacity building in teamwork, conflict resolution, work-life balance, collaborative planning and review.
Values.
During my career, I have demonstrated an enduring commitment to the core values of human rights. These values embrace gender equality, cultural diversity, equity, social inclusion for all, and leaving no child behind. These values promote care, integrity, respect, trust and accountability.
I have strived to instill these core values into the teams I have led by modelling appropriate behaviours and by challenging my teams to not only show commitment to these values but to translate them into effective rights based and gender sensitive programming for children and their families.
Girls and child protection.
Girls and boys experience horrendous levels of abuse, but the evidence shows us that the situations for girls is even worse due to gender inequality. This means that greater attention, thinking and resources are required to prevent and respond to child protection violations against girls. This needs to happen as part of knowledge generation and analysis, programme design and review and capacity building of the child protection sector.
These are the values of Child Protection in International Development.