# of individuals participating in child protection services
Child protection services: The full range of individual and community-based child protection services are designed to reduce and minimize the risk that children and adolescents around exploitation and abuse during an emergency. Interventions can include:
Child protection case management,
Alternative and foster care,
Parenting courses,
Safe spaces for children to play and learn,
Family tracing and reunification,
Reintegration for children associated with armed groups,
Psychosocial support,
The establishment of child protection community mechanisms, and
Training in child protection issues.
Child protection issues can vary depending on the context, but in general refer to protection from any forms of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and violence affecting children. Participating in child protection activities involves more than one-time casual exposure activities designed to improve the protective environment for children. Activities should be designed around an articulated objective and participation defined per activity to reflect the anticipated exposure intended to lead to the desired results.
Calculation: This indicator is a count of individual beneficiaries who participated in any kind of child protection services.
Data Collection Method/Tool: Routine monitoring, Attendance Sheet, Activity Reports
Data Source: Monitoring checklist/form, attendance sheet/records, supervision records
Who Collects: Save the Children and Implementing Partners (e.g., facilitators in Child Friendly Spaces)
From Whom: Staff/supervisors who manage child protection service activities
Frequency of Collection: Data will be collected on an ongoing/rolling/monthly basis.
Frequency of Reporting: Data will be reported in the semi-annual report, annual report and final performance report.
How to count and aggregate: LOA values are the reported values at the end of the award counting only the unique number of individual beneficiaries, without double counting, who participated in child protection services.
Important note: The psychosocial support aspect of the indicator overlaps with the MHPSS indicator. This indicator dominantly captures the unstructured PSS activities whereas the MHPSS indicator captures both structured and unstructured PSS activities. Therefore, if both indicators are being used to calculate reach in a particular child protection program, this potential overlap should be taken into consideration.
Baseline Value Info: Baseline value is zero.