The Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC) Learning Network seeks to strengthen and systematize child care and protection through the collaborative action of humanitarian organizations, local institutions, and academic partners. Further, the CPC Learning Network aims to inform practice and policy though the use of evidence-based findings.

In the year and half since its establishment in partnership with number of international and local NGOs, academic institutions, government agencies, and allied networks, the CPC Learning Network has built a cadre of child protection practitioners through its Global Technical Groups and Program Learning Groups, and through events like the Child Protection Action Summit.

The Global Technical Group on Livelihoods and Economic Strengthening is comprised of key members of the CYES Network, and links members of the CPC Learning Network to vital livelihoods expertise.

Some specific goals of the Learning Network are:

• Develop community protection program knowledge. Promote an organized, evidence-based process for examining NGO experience and generating global standards, strategies and practices to guide child care and protection programs.
• Foster organizational collaboration. Facilitate open, inclusive partnerships and collaboration at the global, regional, national and local levels to promote effective, scalable, community-focused care and protection programs.
• Promote effective programming and policies. Identify and disseminate NGO-tested innovations and local experiences to inform program models, and hence influence national, regional and global policy dialogues affecting children and their developmental outcomes in crisis-affected settings.

Please visit the CPC Learning Network at www.cpclearningnetwork.org

Further, you can get in touch with the CPC Learning Network Secretariat, which is seated at Columbia University, through Paul Kellner at pjk2119@columbia.edu or by calling (212) 342-5158.