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Strengthening Child Protection Systems

Child protection systems aim to address risks facing all children and families by strengthening components like resources, laws, standards, governance, monitoring and services. UNICEF and partners support mapping and assessing child protection systems to build consensus on goals, strengths, weaknesses and priorities for improved laws, policies, regulations, standards and services protecting children. This leads to strengthening systems with finances and staff to deliver results for children.

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Strengthening Child Protection Systems

Child protection systems aim to address risks facing all children and families by strengthening components like resources, laws, standards, governance, monitoring and services. UNICEF and partners support mapping and assessing child protection systems to build consensus on goals, strengths, weaknesses and priorities for improved laws, policies, regulations, standards and services protecting children. This leads to strengthening systems with finances and staff to deliver results for children.

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 Child protection systems seek to address the full spectrum of risk factors in the lives of all children
and their families. Along with partners, including governments, non-governmental organizations, civil
society actors and the private sector, UNICEF promotes the strengthening of all components of child
protection systems - human resources, finances, laws, standards, governance, monitoring and services.
Depending on the country context, child protection systems may cut across part of the social welfare,
education, health, and security sectors.

UNICEF and its partners support the mapping and assessment of child protection systems. This work
helps build consensus among government and civil society on the goals and components of such
systems, their strengths, weaknesses and priorities upon which to act. This then translates into
improved laws, policies, regulations, standards and services protecting all children. It also leads to the
strengthening of these systems with the financial and human resources necessary to deliver results for
children.

WHO scales up child maltreatment prevention activities

As part of the ongoing WHO Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, and as its contribution
to follow up on the UN Secretary General's Study on Violence Against Children, WHO has
scaled up its child maltreatment prevention activities. WHO has a threefold stake in the
prevention of violence against childre

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