Introduction to UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action

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 and partners, as well as local medias and other external stakeholders
• hold a briefing session 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, as well as operational partners on UNICEF Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action, and how to put these guiding principles and framework effectively into practice
• embed the CCCs in the Annual Workplans (AWP), Country Programme Documents (CPD), Emergency Response Plans, Humanitarian appeals (HAC) and Partnerships of 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