Tools and guidance for monitoring and evaluating cfs find, read and cite all the research you need on. Child friendly spaces, one of save the childrens emergency interventions, provide children with protected environments in which they participate in organized activities to play, socialize, learn, and express themselves during the recovery process after a disaster or other emergency. Ahmed, who volunteers in one of the spaces, said, the childfriendly spaces have been a real success. The overall aim is to improve the standards and capacity of field staff, by providing the required knowledge to support the design and operations of child friendly spaces. Cfs is one of save the childrens key interventions to protect children from physical harm and psychosocial distress and to help them continue learning and developing both during and immediately after an emergency.
Learning from partnership in the response to typhoon haiyan executive summary while many claims are made about the value of working in partnership with local organisations in relief and development contexts, there remains a large gap between rhetoric and reality. Child and adolescent friendly spaces after the 2015 nepal. May 16, 2019 childfriendly spaces are programs that support the wellbeing of children during emergencies. Communication friendly spaces cfs focuses on the role of the environment in supporting speaking and listening, emotional wellbeing, physical development.
Child protection knowledge, attitudes, and practices study. Spaces for children, that are child friendly, collaborative and engaged can make a difference across a variety of contexts. Deciding what to plant in your garden is an important first step, as the plants should be sturdy and appeal to kids. See more ideas about home decor, home and kids bedroom. Child friendly spaces research collaboration world vision. Recognizing this, the child protection working group cpwg of. This case study describes how child and adolescent friendly spaces set up by plan international after the 2015 nepal earthquake provided physical and emotional safety, information and integrated child protection and education services to children. The minimum standards for protective spaces for children, khyber pakhtunkhwa july 20 are a revised and expanded version of the minimum standards for protective spaces for children and women developed by the national child protection sub cluster pakistan in september 2010 and later revised in. Operational guidance for child friendly spaces in humanitarian. This handbook will guide save the children emergency response personnel and implementing partners in the rapid implementation of effective child.
In timbuktu, plan international established 3 child friendly spaces cfs to provide holistic child protection, education and early childhood care and development eccd for 4,400 atrisk children. Jan 16, 2014 in troubled countries, child friendly spaces offer some relief. Iraq field study report summary in a threeyear collaboration, world vision international and columbia university, now joined by unicef and save the children, are seeking to document the protective and restorative effectiveness. Child friendly spaces as a tool for child protection in. Child friendly spaces cfs center for education innovations. It identifies the steps to build a local system of governance committed to fulfilling childrens rights. The women friendly space wfs and child friendly space cfs. Over the last few months ive seen its possible to make children smile again. So far this month weve talked about taming toys, curbing kids clutter, and stylish storage bins, but what about how real families incorporate their childrens things into their homes. Since it was launched in april 1999, unicefs child friendly spaces initiative proved to. Child friendly spaces cfs cfs offers informal education, health, and nutrition support to child laborers and the children of laborers thereby facilitating their reintegration to the mainstream education system.
Nov 21, 20 child friendly spaces play such an important role in our emergency response. The main highlights of successful child friendly spaces. The establishment of child friendly spaces has occurred due to the increasing recognition that children are vulnerable in the aftermath of emergencies. Earlier this month i gave a presentation on the importance of child spaces for children in fiji and also had an article published in mai life magazine on how necessary third spaces are for children. See more ideas about kids room, kids bedroom and kid spaces. Minimum standards for protective spaces for children. There are few programmes that provide safe spaces exclusively for girls, although many childfriendly spaces cfs run sessions by age and gender. Childfriendly spaces are protected areas set up by our staff, together with members of the local community. In troubled countries, childfriendly spaces offer some. Child friendly systems of reporting abuse, trafficking, and sexual violence and exploitation should be developed, with special measures taken for women and adolescent girls, and draw upon the cfs staff and cpgs that are often trusted in communities. Children visit child friendly spaces world vision uk. Child friendly spaces cfs have become a widely used approach to protect and provide psychosocial support to children in emergencies. Creating childfriendly spaces is a multidisciplinary and complex task.
Resources and documents about child friendly spaces cfs. In troubled countries, child friendly spaces offer some relief. Columbia university mailman school of public health and world vision international. A practical guide for developing child friendly spaces unicef. World vision and columbia university, working with save the children, unicef, and others, engaged in a 3year collaborative project to document the outcomes and impacts of child friendly spaces and. Pdf child friendly spaces are widely used in emergencies as a mechanism for protecting children from risk, as a means of promoting childrens.
This analysis assesses the impact of child friendly spaces cfs, one. The women friendly space wfs and child friendly space. Childfriendly spaces offer fun, safety and relief unicef usa. The benefits of childfriendly community design range from the promotion of healthier lifestyles, to improving the quality of social interactions to the longterm sustainability of natural spaces. The concept of safe spaces for either children or women is quite well established, but assumes that these spaces serve the needs of adolescent girls. Child friendly spaces impact across five humanitarian. Eliminate barriers and facilitate access to services and activities 4. Ethiopia field study summary report 6 background child friendly spaces cfs are widely used as a form of intervention to address issues of child protection and psychosocial wellbeing in emergency contexts. Children are the most vulnerable group during conflict and in the aftermath of a disaster, both emotionally and physically. An interagency series of impact evaluations in humanitarian emergencies research pdf available november 2015 with 290 reads how we measure reads. Findings from an interagency series of impact evaluations in humanitarian settings. It attempts to provide readers with the main principles of a cfs and the processes on how to establish one. Providing childfriendly spaces for syrian refugee children. Evaluation of baby friendly spaces results and impact 64 2.
A practical guide for developing child friendly spaces pdf. They give children a safe space where they can play, learn, express themselves and socialise. Unauthorised use andor duplication of this material without express and written permission from this sites author andor owner is strictly prohibited. International aid organizations such as save the children and. If you have kids, you want your garden to be as childproof as possible. Spaces for children, that are childfriendly, collaborative and engaged. Educators count children and reunite families by building childfriendly spaces a fundamental necessity as important as food, clothing, and shelter. The united nations childrens fund unicef program child friendly cities promotes childfriendly community design and inclusive decisionmaking. Prevent the increase of malnutrition, morbidity and mortality rates. Jan 29, 2014 childfriendly spaces offer fun, safety and relief january 29, 2014 pbs featured unicef this month in a blog post highlighting childfriendly spaces safe places where children can gather, learn and play during conflicts and emergencies. Childfriendly spaces offer fun, safety and relief january 29, 2014 pbs featured unicef this month in a blog post highlighting childfriendly spaces safe places where children can gather, learn and play during conflicts and emergencies. Child friendly spaces cfs are safe spaces set up in emergency settings to help support and.
Building child friendly cities a framework for action. Admission and exit criteria for baby friendly spaces beneficiaries 56 2. Child friendly spaces play such an important role in our emergency response. Vulnerable children and children with disabilities should be in a non discriminatory environment. This case study describes how child and adolescent friendly spaces set up by plan international after the 2015 nepal earthquake provided physical and emotional safety, information and integrated child protection and education services to children, adolescent girls and boys and their caregivers. Childfriendly space refers to spaces where communities create nurturing environments for children to access free and structured play,recreation, leisure and learning activities may provide health, nutrition and psychosocial support and other servicesactivities which will restore their normal functioning. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to the middlesized garden with appropriate and specific direction to. Here are six places where world visions childfriendly spaces and the staff who run them are helping vulnerable children. Jan 21, 20 so far this month weve talked about taming toys, curbing kids clutter, and stylish storage bins, but what about how real families incorporate their childrens things into their homes. Child friendly spaces in nepal world vision australia youtube. A child friendly school is a school that recognizes and nurtures the achievement of childrens basic rights. Planning childfriendly spaces for rural areas in south. Child friendly spaces, one of save the children s emergency interventions, provide children with protected environments in which they participate in organized activities to play, socialize, learn, and express themselves as they rebuild their lives.
Child friendly spaces cfs are safe spaces set up in emergency settings to help support and protect children. The case studies provide examples of concrete activities and related lessons that may benefit future cfs projects. Childfriendly space refers to spaces where communities create nurturing environments for children to access free and structured play,recreation, leisure and learning activities may provide health, nutrition and psychosocial support and other servicesactivities which. Identify children that are not systematically attending your activities mobile identification points 3. May 01, 2015 world vision has opened child friendly spaces in the aftermath of the nepal earthquake, places for children to play and spend time with their friends amongst the chaos.
Although different agencies call cfss different thingssafe spaces, child centered spaces, child protection centers or emergency spaces for children the. Their objective is to restore a sense of normality and continuity to children whose lives have been disrupted by war, natural disaster, or other emergencies. Child friendly spaces cfs have become a standard approach to address the protection and psychosocial needs of children in the context of humanitarian emergencies, being included in several major intervention guidelines 3,4,5. Child friendly schools work with all commitmentholders, especially parentsguardians of students, and values the many kinds of contributions they can make in seeking all children to go to school.
Child friendly spaces are a widely used approach world vision uses to protect children and provide psychosocial support in emergency situations. Child friendly spaces impact across five humanitarian settings. Child friendly spaces, one of save the childrens emergency interventions, provide children with protected environments in which they participate in organized activities to play, socialize, learn, and express themselves as they rebuild their lives. Child friendly spaces intervention journal of mental health and. The importance of childfriendly spaces a life unstyled. The activities also focus on the experience and knowledge of. Evaluation of child friendly spaces cpc learning network. Most often, we create child friendly spaces to support children. Aug 08, 20 child friendly spaces cfs are used by humanitarian agencies to support and protect children in emergencies. The golden rule in creating an efficient childfriendly space in rural areas is to design the space for the specific location through integrating the surrounding landscape and vegetation as the play settings and nature as possible play materials. Childfriendly spaces are programs that support the wellbeing of children during emergencies. Plan international has been providing humanitarian assistance to girls and boys affected by the complex emergency in northern mali since 2012. Doc the concept of child friendly school mark akoto.
Childfriendly spaces for adolescent girls in emergency settings. Building child friendly cities a framework for action this document provides a framework for defining and developing a child friendly city. Child friendly spaces are protected areas set up by our staff, together with members of the local community. Pdf on sep 1, 2015, sarah lilley and others published evaluation of child friendly spaces. Jun 29, 2016 world vision answers your frequently asked questions about child friendly spaces.
These spaces help children return to a normal routine by offering activities, games and informal education. There are few programmes that provide safe spaces exclusively for girls, although many child friendly spaces cfs run sessions by age and gender. Child friendly spaces cfs are used by humanitarian agencies to support and protect children in emergencies. Training for implementers of child friendly spaces in humanitarian settings. World vision answers your frequently asked questions about child friendly spaces. Recognizing this, the child protection working group cpwg of the global protection cluster and the interagency. A child friendly space is a safe place set up in a disasteraffected community where childrens unique needs can be met. Guidelines for child friendly spaces in emergencies unicef.
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