Programme Design for Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG)

Examine key definitions related to CAAFAG

Thousands of girls and boys continue to be recruited and used in conflicts worldwide. While progress has been made in some areas, challenges are still faced in designing and implementing programmes to prevent and respond to the needs of CAAFAG.

This six-week course from the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action will introduce the key concepts of programme design for CAAFAG and contextualise your design within the legal and normative framework.

Explore each step of the project cycle

Guided through the five steps of the project cycle, you’ll learn to meet requirements set out in the CAAFAG programme development guidelines.

You’ll examine background information, context analysis, programme design and strategic planning, implementation and monitoring, and learning and evaluation, and discover how to implement each step.

Design programmes for prevention, release, and reintegration

On this course, you’ll learn how to develop gender sensitive, context specific programmes that incorporate the perspectives of CAAFAG.

You’ll explore programme design for the prevention of recruitment, the facilitation of release and identification, and the promotion of reintegration.

This unique focus will equip you with the skills to create effective programmes and evaluate and adapt future designs.

Improve your project implementation skills

Project implementation not only includes programme design, but broader considerations including budgeting, human resource management, and child safeguarding.

You’ll be introduced to a range of implementation and monitoring strategies to ensure all activities, data, and participants are treated with respect and meet professional guidelines and finish this course having enhanced your knowledge of programme design within the context of CAAFAG.

This course is designed for child protection managers or advisors in charge of designing, implementing, reviewing, and supporting programmes for CAAFAG.

It is intended to further the knowledge of practitioners with prior experience in child protection and programme development. This may include those working in international and national NGO, UN agencies, and representatives of government institutions.

This course is designed for child protection managers or advisors in charge of designing, implementing, reviewing, and supporting programmes for CAAFAG.

It is intended to further the knowledge of practitioners with prior experience in child protection and programme development. This may include those working in international and national NGO, UN agencies, and representatives of government institutions.

• Explain the key elements of international legal and normative framework
• Describe the process and the tools available to design and implement a context analysis
• Demonstrate how to use the data from the context analysis to design programmes
• Describe the key element of quality programme implementation
• Summarise key elements of an effective learning and evaluation of CAAFAG programmes