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Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action

Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action . What are the CCCs?. UNICEF’s core humanitarian policy with recognition that strengthening partnership and collaboration is key to success in humanitarian action Promote predictable, effective and timely collective humanitarian action

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Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action

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  1. Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action

  2. What are the CCCs? • UNICEF’s core humanitarian policy with recognition that strengthening partnership and collaboration is key to success in humanitarian action • Promote predictable, effective and timely collective humanitarian action • A framework based on norms and standards, around which UNICEF seeks to engage with partners

  3. What is new – Humanitarian Action CCCs: Core Commitments for Children • Humanitarian Action vs. emergency • Broader scope including preparedness and early recovery actions during the response

  4. What is new – Humanitarian Reform • Humanitarian reform has changed the way we work as humanitarian agencies: • Cluster approach • Financing • Humanitarian leadership • Partnerships

  5. What is new – Results orientation • Results-oriented, with clear Strategic Results, Commitments and Benchmarks for each sector • realized through close collaboration among partners, host governments, civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), UN agencies and donors. • Clearly linked to partners’ ability to deliver on the ground

  6. What is UNICEF committing to? • Ensure the situation of children and women is monitored • Respond in defined programme sectors where resources and partners allow • Advocate with governments and partners to ensure that benchmarks are achieved • Ensure minimum preparedness in defined programme sectors and within UNICEF

  7. What is UNICEF’s role? • UNICEF’s role varies depending on context and who has comparative advantage. May include: • promoting CCCs through advocacy, • leadership, • cluster roles (lead and/or member), • Role of UNICEF within humanitarian country teams, etc.

  8. What are UNICEF’s cluster commitments? • Ensure effective leadership and interagency coordination • Always on preparedness (clarify UNICEF and partners cluster responsibility) • Articulated under 1st commitment for Nutrition, Health, WASH, Child Protection and Education • UNICEF’s role in country often mirrors global role, but varies according to capacity and context

  9. When are the CCCs used? • In all countries on: • Preparedness • Situation monitoring of women and children • In both rapid onset, slow onset and protracted humanitarian situations

  10. What are the Cross-cutting commitments? (detailed in Chapter 1) • Normative: • Humanitarian Principles • Human Rights-Based Approach • Gender Equality • ‘Do No Harm’ • Programme Processes: • Contextual analysis • Monitoring, analysis and assessment • Risk management and assessment • Programme Areas: • HIV and AIDS • Advocacy • Communication for Development • Coordinated Approach: • Integrated programme approach (including DRR) • Partnerships • Inter-agency • These apply to all programmes and are mainstreamed in each sector response

  11. Content: Hierarchy of Results CCCs: Core Commitments for Children Strategic Result Commitments – 1st in each sector refers to coordination or cluster lead (when relevant), aligned to UNICEF’s commitments in humanitarian reform. Benchmarks – aligned with globally accepted standards including SPHERE and INEE

  12. Content: Technical Justification and ProgrammeActions CCCs: Core Commitments for Children Technical Justification Programme Actions: UNICEF has identified key preparedness, response and early recovery actions to contribute to each sectoral commitment.

  13. Objective of CCC Performance Monitoring • To support the CO in managing performance in humanitarian action in line with the revised CCCs • In coordination with operational partners • In support of coordination across humanitarian system, especially clusters • Where possible linking to/ building up national monitoring and reporting systems • To reinforce accountability for CCCs at UNICEF CO, RO and HQ levels.

  14. What is the CCC PM system? • The CCC PM system is to be adapted to each country context • The CCC PM system is a logically connected: • results framework aligned to CCC benchmarks • a set of data collection methods and tools • feeding into key planning and management processes • framed in an M&E plan • processed for managers and decision-makers thru ‘dashboards’ pulling in data from different systems (latter not yet developed)

  15. How does UNICEF fund the CCCs in response • Reprogram Regular Resources within the country programme budget, or reprogram Other Resources; • Request internal loan – Emergency Programme Fund • Apply to CERF • Appeals – IND, Flash • CAP (inter-agency) and HAR (UNICEF)

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