Below you will find all sections of the Toolkit for Supporting Community-Led Child Protection Processes, designed as a companion to the Guide.
Supporting community-led action requires a different skillset than you would need for top-down approaches. The tools here can help you begin the process of acquiring these skills.
The Toolkit consists of four sections, for each of the four major skillsets involved: facilitating, training, learning, and management. Click on any section to read more about that section.
- FAC 1. Humility
- FAC 2. What Do I Bring to the Community
- FAC 3. Deep Listening
- FAC 4. Empathy
- FAC 5. Developing a Reflective Practice
- FAC 6. Asking Probing Questions
- FAC 7. Enabling Inclusive Dialogue
- FAC 8. Understanding Power Dynamics in the Community
- FAC 9. Nonviolent Conflict Management
- TRN 1. Role Play-Limits of a Top-Down Approach
- TRN 2. Role Play-Facilitation as 'Facipulation'
- TRN 3. Differences Between Top-Down and Community-Led Approaches to Child Protection
- TRN 4. Gallery Walk and Discussion on “Community”
- TRN 5. Dos and Don’ts of a Community-led Approach
- TRN 6. Role-play for Asking Probing Questions
- TRN 7. Role-play (Fish Bowl) and Discussion: Building an Inclusive Community Process 1
- TRN 8. Role-play: Building an Inclusive Community Process 2
- TRN 9. Keeping One’s Boundaries
- TRN 10. Gallery Walk and Discussion on Community Ownership
- TRN 11. Sample Workshop Agenda for Initial Training of Facilitators
SECTION 3: LEARNING (LNG) TOOLS
- LNG 1. Learning Phase: Dos and Don’ts
- LNG 2. Sample Workshop Agenda for Training Data Collectors
- LNG 3. Ethnographic Principles
- LNG 4. Ethnographic Research Tools, Sierra Leone
- LNG 5. Feeding Back to Communities the Key Findings from the Learning Phase
SECTION 4: MANAGEMENT (MGM) TOOLS
- MGM 1. Questions for Reflection by Managers and Agencies
- MGM 2. The Sierra Leone Case Study: Community-led Child Protection and Bottom-Up System Strengthening
- MGM 3. Enabling Inter-community Collaboration: A Sierra Leone Example
- MGM 4. Phases, Objectives, Steps, and Benchmarks
- MGM 5. Qualities of Facilitators of a Community-led Approach
- MGM 6. Sample Action Criteria
- MGM 7. Sample Roles and Responsibilities of Mentors
- MGM 8. Thinking Through Facilitators’ Ethical Responsibilities
- MGM 9. Sample Initial Work Plan for Facilitators
- MGM 10: Sample Memorandum of Understanding Between Government Ministries, Non-governmental Organizations and Communities in Kongbora Chiefdom
- MGM 11. Sample Community-Developed Action Plan
- MGM 12. Sample Outline for Review Meeting