Partner Resources
ISPCAN Resources
Safe Futures Hub – SOLUTIONS INDEX
“Building Safe Futures: Solutions to end childhood sexual violence” is a comprehensive evidence review highlighting what works to prevent and respond to childhood sexual violence in low- and middle-income countries
Region: Global
Safe Futures Hub
(Public Access)
Caring for Children on the Move
The ‘Caring for Children on the Move’ community is primarily aimed at practitioners and service providers working with children on the move, but is also relevant to programme managers, policymakers and academics working in the sector.
The aim of the space is to build a global and collaborative group of stakeholders that works together to build support for change for children on the move, ultimately contributing to ensuring all children on the move are safe to live and develop, protected from harm, and can fully access their right to family care. Topics covered can range from preventing family separation, improving integration and reintegration, supporting mental health and increasing participation of children and young people on the move in the matters that affect them.
Through this space members will also receive regular updates about the activities and projects taking place within the Family for Every Child alliance in relation to children on the move portfolio. Over 2024, the space will host a series of Q&A sessions, webinars and discussions, specifically focusing on Family’s newly-published ‘Supporting Integration’ toolkit!
Region: Global
Changemakers for Children
(Public Access)
Caring for children who have experienced violence: Training for health professionals
This course empowers frontline health workers to identify and provide appropriate support to children who have experienced violence.
Region: Global
World Health Organization
(Public Access)
Child Trends’ interactive child welfare data tool
US Based, this comprehensive child welfare resource provides state and national data on child maltreatment, foster care, kinship caregiving, permanency, and older youth in care. The data are essential to help policymakers understand how many children and youth come in contact with the child welfare system, and why. States can use this information to ensure that their child welfare systems support the safety, stability, and well-being of all families in their state.
Region: North America, Global
Child Trends’ popular interactive child welfare data tool
(Public Access)
INSPIRE – Seven Strategies for ending Violence Against Children
“INSPIRE” Seven Strategies for ending Violence Against Children is an evidence-based technical package to reduce and prevent violence against children aged 0-17 years. The INSPIRE technical package consists of seven complementary and mutually reinforcing strategies, and two cross-cutting activities to help connect interventions across sectors and assess progress. INSPIRE is intended to support countries in their efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children. The package is anchored in recognition by the Convention on the Rights of the Child that all children have the right to be free from all forms of violence.
The strategies will advance efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal target 16.2 to end all forms of violence against children. INSPIRE is based on the best available evidence of what works globally. INSPIRE is intended for a wide audience, including, policymakers and legislators; civil society actors, practitioners and implementors of violence prevention programmes; NGOs, funders of social, economic, humanitarian, and civil society initiatives; and advocates working in the violence against children sector.
INSPIRE is an acronym with each letter representing a strategy for ending violence against children. Click on the graphic below to access the seven strategies.
Region: Global
INSPIRE WORKING GROUP
(Public Access)
Gender Dimensions of Violence Against Children and Adolescents
Global estimates suggest that more than half (1 billion) of the world’s children aged 2–17
experienced physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse during the past year.1 Addressing
violence against children and adolescents is part of UNICEF’s core mission to protect the
health and well-being of children and adolescents, grounded in gender equality programming
priorities articulated in the 2018–2021 Gender Action Plan and the 2018–2021 Strategic Plan,
particularly Goal Area 3: Every child is protected from violence and exploitation.
As UNICEF prepares a new Child Protection Strategy and Gender Policy to accompany the
next organization-wide Strategic Plan, this paper examines how and why UNICEF and
international partners should pay greater attention to gender dimensions of violence against
children and adolescents (VAC/A), including drivers of violence and opportunities for more
effective violence prevention and response. Greater attention to gender across all violence
programming and evidence generation responds to recommendations of evaluations of
UNICEF’s work on violence,2
child protection,3
and Gender Action Plans.4,5
This paper also explores the rationale for greater attention to links among different forms of
violence across the lifespan, including ways in which violence against adult women,
particularly intimate partner violence (IPV) affects children’s and adolescents’ health, well-being and risk of violence, and the implications of those intersections for UNICEF’s violence
prevention and response programming.
Region: Global
Unicef
(Public Access)
Child Helpline International – Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (OCSEA)
Child helplines identified some common attributes of the victims
of OCSEA that contact them. The most common form of OCSEA
reported to the child helplines took the form of blackmail using
intimate images that the victims had shared with the perpetrator.
This is termed as sexual extortion of children. Members also
suggested some key risk factors in the victims’ background,
such as their age (being younger than 17) or familial
environment (living in dysfunctional households). Many of the
child helplines mentioned the guilt and shame experienced by
the survivors, and fear of their parents or caregivers finding out,
as well as a lack of knowledge that a crime had been committed.
Region: Global
Child Helpline International
(Public Access)
Youth Perspectives on Online Safety in Germany Findings from 2023 quantitative research among 12-16-year-olds in France – THORN Report in German
Thorn published youth-centered research that digs into the experiences of German youth (aged 12-16) with online sexual harms, including cold solicitations, online grooming, sexting, NCII, and the hurdles they face in disclosing their experiences. GERMAN Version
Region: Europe & Russia, Global
THORN
(Public Access)
Youth Perspectives on Online Safety in Germany Findings from 2023 quantitative research among 12-16-year-olds in France – THORN Report in English
Thorn published youth-centered research that digs into the experiences of German youth (aged 12-16) with online sexual harms, including cold solicitations, online grooming, sexting, NCII, and the hurdles they face in disclosing their experiences. ENGLISH Version
Region: Europe & Russia, Global
THORN
(Public Access)
Youth Perspectives on Online Safety in France Findings from 2023 quantitative research among 12-16-year-olds in France – THORN Report in French
Thorn published youth-centered research that digs into the experiences of French youth (aged 12-16) with online sexual harms, including cold solicitations, online grooming, sexting, NCII, and the hurdles they face in disclosing their experiences. FRENCH VERSION
Region: Europe & Russia, Global
THORN
(Public Access)
Youth Perspectives on Online Safety in France Findings from 2023 quantitative research among 12-16-year-olds in France – THORN Report in English
Thorn published youth-centered research that digs into the experiences of French youth (aged 12-16) with online sexual harms, including cold solicitations, online grooming, sexting, NCII, and the hurdles they face in disclosing their experiences.
Region: Europe & Russia, Global
THORN
(Public Access)
Enhancing a survivor-centred approach to healthcare provision in Afghanistan – EVIDENT Video
This TL;DR video presents an overview of the critical research, “Enhancing a Survivor-Centred Approach to Healthcare Provision in Afghanistan,” from the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect. The study focuses on the unique challenges male victims/survivors of sexual violence face in accessing healthcare services in Afghanistan, a context deeply affected by conflict.