About this course

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 This course has been designed to help you develop your understanding of the revised Core Commitments for Children (CCCs) and how to use them in an emergency response. With this course and accompanying toolkit, you will be able to recognize how to deliver principled, timely, quality and child-centred humanitarian response and advocacy in diverse types of crises.

Learning objectives

By the end of the course, you will:

  • Understand the new key functions of the CCCs, the Programmatic and Operational Core Commitments, and their benchmarks.
  • Understand the managerial and organizational commitments related to the CCCs.
  • Master the tools available to plan and design emergency responses with UNICEF teams and partners.

 Feel: 

  • Confident to apply the CCCs in your day-to-day work.
  • Confident to support others to apply the CCCs.
  • Motivated to improve your skills further.

Be able to:

  • Effectively use the CCCs as an advocacy tool in your dialogue with governments, local authorities, partners, media, and other external stakeholders.
  • Hold briefing sessions on the CCCs with your teams to build their knowledge and capacities, and use the CCCs as a training and onboarding tool for UNICEF personnel.
  • Conduct briefings with host governments, national and local authorities, and operational partners on UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action and how to put these guiding principles and framework into practice.
  • Embed the CCCs in Annual Work Plans (AWPs), Country Programme Documents (CPDs), Emergency Response Plans, Humanitarian Appeals (HACs), and partnerships within your office.
  • Embed the CCCs in the management tools of your office and in the performance reports of your teams.
  • Coach UNICEF personnel on how to include and mainstream the CCCs in their workplans.

 

Audience

This learning programme is applicable to all UNICEF personnel, managers and partners and provides the necessary building blocks to increase their ability to deliver principled, timely, quality and child-centred humanitarian response and advocacy in diverse types of crises.

Length

It should take you about 1.5 hours to complete this self-paced course. 

Methodology

The course is composed of four modules and uses webinars, workbooks, videos, testimonials, case studies, scenarios, and discussion forums to help you build and strengthen your understanding of how to put the Core Commitments for Children into action.

Structure

The structure is as follows: 

  • Pre-assessment
  • Module 1: Introduction
  • Module 2: UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Action
  • Module 3: Using the UNICEF Core Commitments for Children to Engage with Partners
  • Module 4: Using the UNICEF Core Commitments for Children as a Programme Planning and Monitoring Framework
  • Final Assessment, Evaluation and Certificate

 Contact details

This course was designed and developed by the Humanitarian Evidence and Learning Section (HELS) in close collaboration with the Humanitarian Policy Section (HPS), Office of Emergency Programmes.

Topic: Child Protection and Migration, Child Protection and Migration - Child Protection, Child Protection and Migration - Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Humanitarian Action, Humanitarian Action - Foundations and principles, Humanitarian Action - Thematic programming
Format: Online courses - Short e-course
Provider: UNICEF
Language: English

Dates

Start date: 02/11/20