In this webinar, hosts will address and discuss various technologies to combat online child sexual exploitation.

Hosted by the Center for the Study of the African Child and the Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network, this is the first webinar in a series focused on late-breaking research calling attention to the realities of vulnerable children in Uganda to better inform innovative child protection interventions.

Given the scourge of child sexual abuse around the world, it is essential that the EU steps up its role and works out a common and coordinated solution to eradicate these heinous crimes and better protect victims. This webinar will highlight the need of a coordinated whole-society approach with high-level speakers from the European Commission, EU Member States' Representatives, Members of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights, law-enforcement authorities and civil society organizations.

Speakers include:

MEP Caterina Chinnici
Co-Chair of the Intergroup on Children's Rights

Ms Ylva Johansson
EU Commissioner for Home Affairs

HE Ferdinand Grapperhaus
Minister of Justice and Security of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Ms Catherine De Bolle Director
Europol

Mr John F. Clark
President and CEO of the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Ms Jacqueline F. Beauchere
Global Digital Safety Advocate, Custer Security and Trust Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft

Online child sexual exploitation is a global crime that requires a coordinated global response, particularly at a time when children and offenders are spending more time online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please join Iain Drennan, Executive Director of the WePROTECT Global Alliance, as he sets out the intelligence brief's sobering conclusions and explains how it is more important than ever for the global community to work together to ensure children are kept safe online.

In this webinar Nivea Saldanha, Ritha Nyiratunga and Dominique Maidment will lead a discussion on best practices in selecting, training and supporting community facilitators for transformative programming to prevent VAW. The webinar will include case studies from Timor-Leste’s KOKOSA! programme, and from Indashyikirwa in Rwanda.

In the wake of COVID-19, as public servants across the globe continue to adjust to working from home, it is becoming increasingly clear that when we emerge from this pandemic, the nature of work will have changed forever. It is essential to set yourself up for success by ensuring that you and your team have the tools you need.

This quick 20-minute Apolitical workshop will cover essential tools for collaborating remotely as a team: Trello, Google Docs, and Slack.

This webinar will present interagency guidance developed by the Community-Level Child Protection Task Force aimed at supporting child protection actors working with communities to keep children safe to adapt their programming to the contagious environment of COVID-19, in line with CPMS Standard 17.

After a brief introduction of the guidance, frontline workers will share their key challenges and approaches to adapt their community-level child protection work in light of COVID-19, after which the floor is open to share good practices and lessons learnt from different contexts.

The webinar will be 1.5 hours.

Successful programmes to prevent violence against women and girls are transformative. They enable deep shifts in thinking, beliefs and behaviour as participants critically reflect on their own life experiences and address power and gender inequality. Key to these programmes’ success is the presence of empathetic and skilled facilitators, able to promote shifts in perspective and new insights around power and gender. They are able to do this as they support community members to explore their own feelings and ideas, and to find their own answers.

Join the Prevention Collaborative to discuss best practices in selecting, training and supporting community facilitators for transformative programming to prevent VAW. The webinar will include case studies from Timor-Leste’s KOKOSA! programme, and from Indashyikirwa in Rwanda.

Panelists:
Dominique Maidment, Prevention Mentor with the Prevention Collaborative. Based in Thailand, Dominique supports the implementation of diverse VAW prevention programmes, in both humanitarian and development contexts, across Asia and the Pacific region.

Nivea Saldanha, Senior Program Officer with The Asia Foundation’s Nabilan programme in Timor Leste on social norms change approaches to preventing violence against women. She is a feminist activist and creative training specialist supporting national partners PRADET and COVIDA in a co-implementation of a SASA! adaptation – KOKOSA!

Ritha Nyiratunga, Senior Associate for Capacity Development with the Prevention Collaborative. Ritha has experience with adaptation and implementation of violence prevention programmes. She worked with RWAMREC (Rwanda Men's Resource Centre) as the National Coordinator of Indashyikirwa, a GBV prevention programme that sought to shift beliefs and social norms that drive IPV among couples and in communities.

In this Network Virtual Roundtable, we'll be joined by Craig Dwyer, founder of ForaChange. Craig was the Social Media Director for Yes Equality during the marriage equality referendum in Ireland in 2015 and also helped win marriage equality in Australia. Craig will share how communicators can keep pace in this challenging environment.

We'll cover:

• How to communicate, organize, and mobilize existing and new supporters online
• How to respond in, and adapt to the current environment
• Tips and tools for best digital practices right now