Key areas of responsibility

Strategic guidance and policy setting

- Lead Educo’s Child Protection Programming strategy development and implementation process

- Lead Educo’s policy development on different areas on child protection

Quality assurance and technical support

- Make sure Educo’s child safeguarding policy is in place by coordinating and overseeing the child safeguarding committees, and different in-country focal points.

- Capacity building on child protection issues through comprehensive training needs assessments and contributing to the partners/staff technical capacity building plans

- Provide technical support for child protection programming for different country offices

- Provide technical support for grants programmes

Networking, relationship and external communication:

- Establish strong relationships with Keeping Children Safe and other networks engaging in similar work, ChildFund Alliance members, AECID child protection working group, government ministries, donors, UN agencies, Civil Society Organisations (CSO), Networks

- Represent Educo in Protection fora in the international level

Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL)

- Provide support for best interest assessment

- Monitor the progresses of SDG on child protection issues

- Work with the MEAL team to ensure that protection programs are monitored against already developed standards and indicators

- Support program assessments, evaluations and other reviews required in the program.

- Ensure good consultation and cross learning and sharing information with wider stakeholders

- Establish work processes – facilitating material for reflection and team training.

- Establish standards of good practices – systematizations in protection.