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Child Protection Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG)

Child Protection Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG). Ghazal Keshavarzian CP MERG Knowledge Management Consultant 7 October 2013. What is CP MERG?. Visit: www.cpmerg.org Contact: Secretariat@cpmerg.org.

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Child Protection Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG)

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  1. Child Protection Monitoring & Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG) Ghazal Keshavarzian CP MERG Knowledge Management Consultant 7 October 2013

  2. What is CP MERG? Visit: www.cpmerg.org Contact: Secretariat@cpmerg.org • A global level forum established in 2010 for collaboration and coordination on child protection monitoring, evaluation and research. • Goals: • Strengthening the quality of M&E, research and data collection in child protection, through the development of standards, tools and recommendations. • Facilitate coordination, communication and shared learning across organizations and entities on M&E of child protection.

  3. One key learning project Measuring Violence against Children Technical Working Group: • Established in 2011to assist countries and partners in their efforts to gather reliable, useful, comparable and ethically sensitive data on VAC. • Members: ILO, UNICEF, Save the Children, ICF MACRO, Population Council, Plan International, ChildFund,EU FRA.   • Ethical principles, dilemmas and risks in collecting data on VAC Report (2012): Aims to capture current thinking on ethical issues and providing empirical support to guide recommendations for ethical research practice and decision-making in collecting data on VAC. • Measuring violence against children: Inventory and assessment of quantitative studies report (forthcoming)

  4. Key Challenges • Do we reach our target audience? • Is our knowledge management and resources useful and practical for country level practitioners? • What is our impact on improving CP M&E and research? How do we assess our impact? • Small pool of qualified M&E experts in the field of child protection • Expanding our core member so its more globally representative • Encouraging participation of individual members to co-chair/lead TWGs • Overlaps with other networks/groups core objectives and work plans Visit: www.cpmerg.org Contact: Secretariat@cpmerg.org

  5. Key policy priorities over the next 3 years (draft) • Knowledge Management and Communications • Peer Review of M&E tools, methodologies, and knowledge products • Convening of 2-3 additional TWGs to take forward specific priority activities as agreed upon by the CP MERG Core Members. Each TWG will led by a chair or co-chairs. Visit: www.cpmerg.org Contact: Secretariat@cpmerg.org

  6. For more information: Visit: www.cpmerg.org Contact: Secretariat@cpmerg.org

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