Emergency Response
Displacement
Emergency response measures must address children’s urgent needs and protection in the face of instability, disrupted relationships, and insecure shelter:
- Safe Shelter & Protection: Establish emergency shelters that guarantee physical safety, child-friendly design, privacy, and proximity of caregivers. Anticipate multiple relocations by creating flexible registration and rapid reallocation systems.
- Rapid Medical & Nutrition Support: Deploy mobile health units and emergency nutrition programs (e.g., fortified rations, breastfeeding support) to avoid health deterioration. Prioritize vaccination and maternal/newborn care.
- Family Tracing & Reunification: Implement child protection teams and robust tracing databases to identify and safeguard separated or unaccompanied children. Provide interim care that preserves attachment continuity.
- Emergency Registration & Legal Aid: Register displaced families quickly, issue temporary IDs or documentation, and provide legal assistance to secure entitlements and access to services.
- Discrimination Safeguards: Enforce zero-tolerance protection policies in shelters and service points, with confidential reporting systems and culturally sensitive practices to reduce exclusion or abuse.
Flexible service delivery
Displacement
Displacement disrupts systems and continuity of services; responses must be adaptive, mobile, and inclusive:
- Mobile Services & Outreach: Provide health, nutrition, and psychosocial services via mobile units and pop-up community hubs to follow displaced families across locations.
- Alternative Learning Pathways: Offer portable learning kits, radio/digital lessons, and informal community-based education where schools are closed or inaccessible.
- Case Management Systems: Train community volunteers to keep regular contact with children and caregivers, ensuring psychosocial needs and caregiving challenges are monitored despite repeated moves.
- Nutrition & Food Security: Ensure equitable access to food through camp distribution points, vouchers, or host-community integration programs. Monitor malnutrition among displaced children regularly.
- Inclusive Community Spaces: Establish safe, neutral spaces where displaced and host community children can interact through structured play, reducing social isolation and building acceptance.
Governance, coordination, and accountability
Displacement
Displacement requires integrated, accountable systems that cross legal, social, and humanitarian boundaries:
- Cross-Sectoral Coordination: Align humanitarian, government, and civil society actors to ensure displaced families have access to healthcare, education, and social protection without administrative blockages.
- Child Protection Continuity: Ensure referral systems remain functional across borders, camps, and host communities, so no child falls through service gaps during moves.
- Legal and Policy Safeguards: Advocate for national and local policies that grant displaced children equal rights to education, healthcare, and protection regardless of documentation status.
- Inclusion of Displaced Voices: Establish consultation mechanisms where displaced families and youth inform service design and monitoring.
- Standards & Equity: Enforce child-focused minimum standards in shelter, food distribution, and education, ensuring accountability for meeting displaced children’s developmental and protection needs.
- Monitoring & Transparency: Implement real-time registration, service-tracking, and community feedback systems to identify discrimination, inequity, and service breakdowns quickly.
Integrated mental health and psychosocial support
Displacement
MHPSS must address the trauma of loss, repeated moves, and attachment disruption:
- Safe Play & Stability Creation: Create child-friendly spaces where children rebuild daily routines and continuity, mitigating stress from disrupted environments.
- Attachment Repair & Caregiver Support: Provide parenting programs, counseling, and practical tools for caregivers to strengthen nurturing care under stress. Foster care or group home systems must include attachment-informed practices.
- Multiple Relocation Coping: Offer group sessions and child-focused resilience activities (storytelling, journaling, memory projects) that help children process repeated transitions.
- Psychosocial Nutrition Support: Integrate psychosocial counseling with food assistance to reduce caregiver stress and prevent neglect driven by scarcity.
- Anti-Discrimination Support: Establish peer groups, dialogue sessions, and psychosocial activities to help displaced children cope with stigma and build belonging in host settings.
- Trauma-Informed Counseling: Provide specialized services for children facing grief, repeated displacement trauma, and identity loss.
Workforce Capacity & Wellbeing
Displacement
Frontline workers must be equipped to handle the layered vulnerabilities displacement creates:
- Child Protection Training: Train staff to identify risks related to separation, re-separation during relocations, and unsafe interim caregiving.
- Health & Nutrition Skills: Equip staff with capacity to deliver vaccinations, screen for malnutrition, and provide maternal/infant care in unstable settings.
- Trauma- and Discrimination-Awareness: Prepare workers to recognize stigma, marginalization, and psychosocial distress in displaced populations, applying culturally responsive approaches.
- Education in Emergencies Training: Train educators to deliver trauma-informed, flexible, and low-resource teaching methods.
- Caregiver Stress Support: Train staff to recognize caregiver burnout linked to financial strain and unsafe environments, with clear referral systems to psychosocial or social protection services.
- Frontline Worker Well-being: Provide structured psychosocial support, rest rotations, and peer groups to sustain responder resilience during high-stress displacement contexts.
Displacement
Emergency response measures must address children’s urgent needs and protection in the face of instability, disrupted relationships, and insecure shelter:
- Safe Shelter & Protection: Establish emergency shelters that guarantee physical safety, child-friendly design, privacy, and proximity of caregivers. Anticipate multiple relocations by creating flexible registration and rapid reallocation systems.
- Rapid Medical & Nutrition Support: Deploy mobile health units and emergency nutrition programs (e.g., fortified rations, breastfeeding support) to avoid health deterioration. Prioritize vaccination and maternal/newborn care.
- Family Tracing & Reunification: Implement child protection teams and robust tracing databases to identify and safeguard separated or unaccompanied children. Provide interim care that preserves attachment continuity.
- Emergency Registration & Legal Aid: Register displaced families quickly, issue temporary IDs or documentation, and provide legal assistance to secure entitlements and access to services.
- Discrimination Safeguards: Enforce zero-tolerance protection policies in shelters and service points, with confidential reporting systems and culturally sensitive practices to reduce exclusion or abuse.
Flexible service delivery
Displacement
Displacement disrupts systems and continuity of services; responses must be adaptive, mobile, and inclusive:
- Mobile Services & Outreach: Provide health, nutrition, and psychosocial services via mobile units and pop-up community hubs to follow displaced families across locations.
- Alternative Learning Pathways: Offer portable learning kits, radio/digital lessons, and informal community-based education where schools are closed or inaccessible.
- Case Management Systems: Train community volunteers to keep regular contact with children and caregivers, ensuring psychosocial needs and caregiving challenges are monitored despite repeated moves.
- Nutrition & Food Security: Ensure equitable access to food through camp distribution points, vouchers, or host-community integration programs. Monitor malnutrition among displaced children regularly.
- Inclusive Community Spaces: Establish safe, neutral spaces where displaced and host community children can interact through structured play, reducing social isolation and building acceptance.
Governance, coordination, and accountability
Displacement
Displacement requires integrated, accountable systems that cross legal, social, and humanitarian boundaries:
- Cross-Sectoral Coordination: Align humanitarian, government, and civil society actors to ensure displaced families have access to healthcare, education, and social protection without administrative blockages.
- Child Protection Continuity: Ensure referral systems remain functional across borders, camps, and host communities, so no child falls through service gaps during moves.
- Legal and Policy Safeguards: Advocate for national and local policies that grant displaced children equal rights to education, healthcare, and protection regardless of documentation status.
- Inclusion of Displaced Voices: Establish consultation mechanisms where displaced families and youth inform service design and monitoring.
- Standards & Equity: Enforce child-focused minimum standards in shelter, food distribution, and education, ensuring accountability for meeting displaced children’s developmental and protection needs.
- Monitoring & Transparency: Implement real-time registration, service-tracking, and community feedback systems to identify discrimination, inequity, and service breakdowns quickly.
Integrated mental health and psychosocial support
Displacement
MHPSS must address the trauma of loss, repeated moves, and attachment disruption:
- Safe Play & Stability Creation: Create child-friendly spaces where children rebuild daily routines and continuity, mitigating stress from disrupted environments.
- Attachment Repair & Caregiver Support: Provide parenting programs, counseling, and practical tools for caregivers to strengthen nurturing care under stress. Foster care or group home systems must include attachment-informed practices.
- Multiple Relocation Coping: Offer group sessions and child-focused resilience activities (storytelling, journaling, memory projects) that help children process repeated transitions.
- Psychosocial Nutrition Support: Integrate psychosocial counseling with food assistance to reduce caregiver stress and prevent neglect driven by scarcity.
- Anti-Discrimination Support: Establish peer groups, dialogue sessions, and psychosocial activities to help displaced children cope with stigma and build belonging in host settings.
- Trauma-Informed Counseling: Provide specialized services for children facing grief, repeated displacement trauma, and identity loss.
Workforce Capacity & Wellbeing
Displacement
Frontline workers must be equipped to handle the layered vulnerabilities displacement creates:
- Child Protection Training: Train staff to identify risks related to separation, re-separation during relocations, and unsafe interim caregiving.
- Health & Nutrition Skills: Equip staff with capacity to deliver vaccinations, screen for malnutrition, and provide maternal/infant care in unstable settings.
- Trauma- and Discrimination-Awareness: Prepare workers to recognize stigma, marginalization, and psychosocial distress in displaced populations, applying culturally responsive approaches.
- Education in Emergencies Training: Train educators to deliver trauma-informed, flexible, and low-resource teaching methods.
- Caregiver Stress Support: Train staff to recognize caregiver burnout linked to financial strain and unsafe environments, with clear referral systems to psychosocial or social protection services.
- Frontline Worker Well-being: Provide structured psychosocial support, rest rotations, and peer groups to sustain responder resilience during high-stress displacement contexts.
Displacement
Displacement disrupts systems and continuity of services; responses must be adaptive, mobile, and inclusive:
- Mobile Services & Outreach: Provide health, nutrition, and psychosocial services via mobile units and pop-up community hubs to follow displaced families across locations.
- Alternative Learning Pathways: Offer portable learning kits, radio/digital lessons, and informal community-based education where schools are closed or inaccessible.
- Case Management Systems: Train community volunteers to keep regular contact with children and caregivers, ensuring psychosocial needs and caregiving challenges are monitored despite repeated moves.
- Nutrition & Food Security: Ensure equitable access to food through camp distribution points, vouchers, or host-community integration programs. Monitor malnutrition among displaced children regularly.
- Inclusive Community Spaces: Establish safe, neutral spaces where displaced and host community children can interact through structured play, reducing social isolation and building acceptance.
Governance, coordination, and accountability
Displacement
Displacement requires integrated, accountable systems that cross legal, social, and humanitarian boundaries:
- Cross-Sectoral Coordination: Align humanitarian, government, and civil society actors to ensure displaced families have access to healthcare, education, and social protection without administrative blockages.
- Child Protection Continuity: Ensure referral systems remain functional across borders, camps, and host communities, so no child falls through service gaps during moves.
- Legal and Policy Safeguards: Advocate for national and local policies that grant displaced children equal rights to education, healthcare, and protection regardless of documentation status.
- Inclusion of Displaced Voices: Establish consultation mechanisms where displaced families and youth inform service design and monitoring.
- Standards & Equity: Enforce child-focused minimum standards in shelter, food distribution, and education, ensuring accountability for meeting displaced children’s developmental and protection needs.
- Monitoring & Transparency: Implement real-time registration, service-tracking, and community feedback systems to identify discrimination, inequity, and service breakdowns quickly.
Integrated mental health and psychosocial support
Displacement
MHPSS must address the trauma of loss, repeated moves, and attachment disruption:
- Safe Play & Stability Creation: Create child-friendly spaces where children rebuild daily routines and continuity, mitigating stress from disrupted environments.
- Attachment Repair & Caregiver Support: Provide parenting programs, counseling, and practical tools for caregivers to strengthen nurturing care under stress. Foster care or group home systems must include attachment-informed practices.
- Multiple Relocation Coping: Offer group sessions and child-focused resilience activities (storytelling, journaling, memory projects) that help children process repeated transitions.
- Psychosocial Nutrition Support: Integrate psychosocial counseling with food assistance to reduce caregiver stress and prevent neglect driven by scarcity.
- Anti-Discrimination Support: Establish peer groups, dialogue sessions, and psychosocial activities to help displaced children cope with stigma and build belonging in host settings.
- Trauma-Informed Counseling: Provide specialized services for children facing grief, repeated displacement trauma, and identity loss.
Workforce Capacity & Wellbeing
Displacement
Frontline workers must be equipped to handle the layered vulnerabilities displacement creates:
- Child Protection Training: Train staff to identify risks related to separation, re-separation during relocations, and unsafe interim caregiving.
- Health & Nutrition Skills: Equip staff with capacity to deliver vaccinations, screen for malnutrition, and provide maternal/infant care in unstable settings.
- Trauma- and Discrimination-Awareness: Prepare workers to recognize stigma, marginalization, and psychosocial distress in displaced populations, applying culturally responsive approaches.
- Education in Emergencies Training: Train educators to deliver trauma-informed, flexible, and low-resource teaching methods.
- Caregiver Stress Support: Train staff to recognize caregiver burnout linked to financial strain and unsafe environments, with clear referral systems to psychosocial or social protection services.
- Frontline Worker Well-being: Provide structured psychosocial support, rest rotations, and peer groups to sustain responder resilience during high-stress displacement contexts.
Displacement
Displacement requires integrated, accountable systems that cross legal, social, and humanitarian boundaries:
- Cross-Sectoral Coordination: Align humanitarian, government, and civil society actors to ensure displaced families have access to healthcare, education, and social protection without administrative blockages.
- Child Protection Continuity: Ensure referral systems remain functional across borders, camps, and host communities, so no child falls through service gaps during moves.
- Legal and Policy Safeguards: Advocate for national and local policies that grant displaced children equal rights to education, healthcare, and protection regardless of documentation status.
- Inclusion of Displaced Voices: Establish consultation mechanisms where displaced families and youth inform service design and monitoring.
- Standards & Equity: Enforce child-focused minimum standards in shelter, food distribution, and education, ensuring accountability for meeting displaced children’s developmental and protection needs.
- Monitoring & Transparency: Implement real-time registration, service-tracking, and community feedback systems to identify discrimination, inequity, and service breakdowns quickly.
Integrated mental health and psychosocial support
Displacement
MHPSS must address the trauma of loss, repeated moves, and attachment disruption:
- Safe Play & Stability Creation: Create child-friendly spaces where children rebuild daily routines and continuity, mitigating stress from disrupted environments.
- Attachment Repair & Caregiver Support: Provide parenting programs, counseling, and practical tools for caregivers to strengthen nurturing care under stress. Foster care or group home systems must include attachment-informed practices.
- Multiple Relocation Coping: Offer group sessions and child-focused resilience activities (storytelling, journaling, memory projects) that help children process repeated transitions.
- Psychosocial Nutrition Support: Integrate psychosocial counseling with food assistance to reduce caregiver stress and prevent neglect driven by scarcity.
- Anti-Discrimination Support: Establish peer groups, dialogue sessions, and psychosocial activities to help displaced children cope with stigma and build belonging in host settings.
- Trauma-Informed Counseling: Provide specialized services for children facing grief, repeated displacement trauma, and identity loss.
Workforce Capacity & Wellbeing
Displacement
Frontline workers must be equipped to handle the layered vulnerabilities displacement creates:
- Child Protection Training: Train staff to identify risks related to separation, re-separation during relocations, and unsafe interim caregiving.
- Health & Nutrition Skills: Equip staff with capacity to deliver vaccinations, screen for malnutrition, and provide maternal/infant care in unstable settings.
- Trauma- and Discrimination-Awareness: Prepare workers to recognize stigma, marginalization, and psychosocial distress in displaced populations, applying culturally responsive approaches.
- Education in Emergencies Training: Train educators to deliver trauma-informed, flexible, and low-resource teaching methods.
- Caregiver Stress Support: Train staff to recognize caregiver burnout linked to financial strain and unsafe environments, with clear referral systems to psychosocial or social protection services.
- Frontline Worker Well-being: Provide structured psychosocial support, rest rotations, and peer groups to sustain responder resilience during high-stress displacement contexts.
Displacement
MHPSS must address the trauma of loss, repeated moves, and attachment disruption:
- Safe Play & Stability Creation: Create child-friendly spaces where children rebuild daily routines and continuity, mitigating stress from disrupted environments.
- Attachment Repair & Caregiver Support: Provide parenting programs, counseling, and practical tools for caregivers to strengthen nurturing care under stress. Foster care or group home systems must include attachment-informed practices.
- Multiple Relocation Coping: Offer group sessions and child-focused resilience activities (storytelling, journaling, memory projects) that help children process repeated transitions.
- Psychosocial Nutrition Support: Integrate psychosocial counseling with food assistance to reduce caregiver stress and prevent neglect driven by scarcity.
- Anti-Discrimination Support: Establish peer groups, dialogue sessions, and psychosocial activities to help displaced children cope with stigma and build belonging in host settings.
- Trauma-Informed Counseling: Provide specialized services for children facing grief, repeated displacement trauma, and identity loss.
Workforce Capacity & Wellbeing
Displacement
Frontline workers must be equipped to handle the layered vulnerabilities displacement creates:
- Child Protection Training: Train staff to identify risks related to separation, re-separation during relocations, and unsafe interim caregiving.
- Health & Nutrition Skills: Equip staff with capacity to deliver vaccinations, screen for malnutrition, and provide maternal/infant care in unstable settings.
- Trauma- and Discrimination-Awareness: Prepare workers to recognize stigma, marginalization, and psychosocial distress in displaced populations, applying culturally responsive approaches.
- Education in Emergencies Training: Train educators to deliver trauma-informed, flexible, and low-resource teaching methods.
- Caregiver Stress Support: Train staff to recognize caregiver burnout linked to financial strain and unsafe environments, with clear referral systems to psychosocial or social protection services.
- Frontline Worker Well-being: Provide structured psychosocial support, rest rotations, and peer groups to sustain responder resilience during high-stress displacement contexts.
Displacement
Frontline workers must be equipped to handle the layered vulnerabilities displacement creates:
- Child Protection Training: Train staff to identify risks related to separation, re-separation during relocations, and unsafe interim caregiving.
- Health & Nutrition Skills: Equip staff with capacity to deliver vaccinations, screen for malnutrition, and provide maternal/infant care in unstable settings.
- Trauma- and Discrimination-Awareness: Prepare workers to recognize stigma, marginalization, and psychosocial distress in displaced populations, applying culturally responsive approaches.
- Education in Emergencies Training: Train educators to deliver trauma-informed, flexible, and low-resource teaching methods.
- Caregiver Stress Support: Train staff to recognize caregiver burnout linked to financial strain and unsafe environments, with clear referral systems to psychosocial or social protection services.
- Frontline Worker Well-being: Provide structured psychosocial support, rest rotations, and peer groups to sustain responder resilience during high-stress displacement contexts.