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Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action

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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

What are the CCCs?

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CCCs: Core Commitments for Children

1. Humanitarian Action vs. emergencyBroader scope including preparedness and

early recovery actions during the response

What is new – Humanitarian Action

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2. Humanitarian reform has changed the way we work as humanitarian agencies:Cluster approachFinancingHumanitarian leadershipPartnerships

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What is new – Humanitarian Reform

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3. 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

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What is new – Results orientation

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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

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What is UNICEF committing to?

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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.

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What is UNICEF’s role?

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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

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What are UNICEF’s cluster commitments?

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In all countries on: Preparedness Situation monitoring of women and children

In both rapid onset, slow onset and protracted humanitarian situations

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When are the CCCs used?

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What are the Cross-cutting commitments? (detailed in Chapter 1)

Normative: Humanitarian PrinciplesHuman Rights-Based ApproachGender Equality‘Do No Harm’

Programme Processes:Contextual analysisMonitoring, analysis and assessmentRisk management and assessment

Programme Areas:

HIV and AIDSAdvocacyCommunication for Development

Coordinated Approach:Integrated programme approach

(including DRR)Partnerships Inter-agency

These apply to all programmes and are mainstreamed in each sector response

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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

Content: Hierarchy of Results

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CCCs: Core Commitments for Children

Content: Technical Justification and Programme Actions

Technical Justification

Programme Actions: UNICEF has identified key preparedness, response and early recovery actions to contribute to each sectoral commitment.

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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 clustersWhere possible linking to/ building up national

monitoring and reporting systems To reinforce accountability for CCCs at UNICEF

CO, RO and HQ levels.

Objective of CCC Performance Monitoring

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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 benchmarksa set of data collection methods and tools

• feeding into key planning and management processes

• framed in an M&E planprocessed for managers and decision-makers thru

‘dashboards’ pulling in data from different systems (latter not yet developed)

What is the CCC PM system?

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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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How does UNICEF fund the CCCs in response