Resource Package for Local and Regional Governments:

Latest data on displacement from Ukraine.
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A set of recommendations on what local governments can do to advance the rights of refugee, migrant and internally displaced children and their families, regardless of status, with concrete examples from cities around the world.
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Lessons learned and scalable solutions to accelerate inclusion in national education systems and enhance learning outcomes for children on the move.
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Toolkit for Integrating Migration into Education Interventions (IOM):
This toolkit, developed with the support of UNICEF and UNESCO, supports partners in reflecting migration in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of education programmes.
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(UNICEF and Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)):
A set of policy recommendations for urban local governments on protecting the rights of internally displaced children.
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A Guide for Staff and Volunteers in the United States (UNICEF):
A “best practices” guide to help prepare staff and volunteers working with unaccompanied migrant children in emergency contexts within the United States. It brings together best practices and global standards in child protection, life skills education, mental health and psychosocial support, youth participation, gender, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding, and children’s rights, amongst others.
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Supporting the transition in local communities for unaccompanied children (UNICEF):
This simple infographic outlines the key factors supporting the effective integration of unaccompanied children in local communities.
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Strengthening resilience through risk informed local governance (UNICEF):
A technical note on strengthening resilience at the local level through risk-informed governance systems.
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Core Commitments for Children in Large Scale Movement Situations (UNICEF):
These Core Commitments for Children outline UNICEF’s core policy and framework for humanitarian action in the context of large scale movements of refugees, migrants, and displaced persons.
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E.U. guidelines how to interpret and apply the Temporary Protection Directive provisions:
including detailed recommendations to protect children e.g., registration, involvement of child protection personnel, and preventing trafficking.
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Protocol of Engagement between Local Governments and Humanitarian Actors (Global Alliance for Urban Crises):
This protocol outlines the potential roles and responsibilities of local governments and humanitarian actors in response to crisis.
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Designing with Children In Displacement (DeCID) handbook (UNICEF, UN-Habitat, CatalyticAction and University College London):
The DeCID handbook provides practical guidance for co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement.
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Blue Dots – Children and family support hubs:
The Children and Family Protection Support Hubs (Blue Dots) assemble a minimum set of key services to families from a range of partners, under one neutral logo (blue dot). They have become a recognizable trade of emergency assistance and have proven to be a good example of collaboration among partners namely UNHCR, ICRC and UNICEF.
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Child Protection Blueprint – A Fair Deal for Refugee Children (UNICEF and UNHRC):
The Blueprint for Joint Action outlines the two organizations’ joint commitment to streamline the approach to serving refugee children.
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Child Protection System Strengthening (UNICEF):
This document outlines UNICEF’s approach to child protection systems strengthening.
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Guidance for protecting displaced and refugee children in and outside of Ukraine (UNICEF):
A short guide for authorities and aid workers to help keep children safe from trafficking and other forms of exploitation and abuse.
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Guidelines to protect migrants in countries experiencing conflict or natural disaster (MICIC- Migrants in Countries in Crisis):
These guidelines provide concrete and practical guidance to stakeholders at the local, national, regional, and international levels on how to prepare for and respond to crises in ways that protect and empower migrants, leverage their capacities, and help migrants and communities recover from crises.
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Press release: Children fleeing war in Ukraine at heightened risk of trafficking and exploitation (UNICEF)

Statement by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, asking for urgent and extra support for separated and unaccompanied children.
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Statement by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urging to end killings of children in Ukraine.
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Child Protection Resources for Ukraine Response in relevant languages
A collection of resources to support child protection in humanitarian response
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support, Humanitarian Response in Ukraine and Neighbouring Countries (Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)): A full package of resources to support the mental health and psychosocial well-being of refugees arriving from Ukraine, available in English, Ukrainian and a number of other Resources include for example: VIEW RESOURCE

IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings – Checklist for Field Use (IASC): This guidance provides a set of minimum responses that should be put in place to support mental health and psychosocial well-being in emergencies.
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Problem management plus (‎PM+)‎: individual psychological help for adults impaired by distress in communities exposed to adversity (WHO): This manual provides guidance on psychological interventions for people exposed to adversity.
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Psychological first aid: Guide for field workers (WHO, World Vision and War Trauma Foundation): A guide for field workers on how to provide psychological first aid safely.
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Doing What Matters in Times of Stress (WHO): An illustrated guide to support coping with adversity, with key messages on self-care.
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For a full overview of the IASC Reference Group on Mental Health and Psycho Social Support resources available in Ukrainian, see here.

Activities for Families on the Move: Supporting children’s well-being during challenging times(UNICEF): A Toolkit for families on the move to use independently to support children’s wellbeing in their new homes or in a shelter.
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Pocket Guide on Child Sensitive Approaches for Border Guards (UNICEF): This Pocket Guide outlines some tips for taking a child-sensitive approach at borders. A child sensitive approach allows agents to carry out their work and communicate in a way that support children’s safety and well-being, while minimizing harm.
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Mental Health & Psychosocial Support for Families at the US-Mexico border – A Field Guide(UNICEF): This “best practices” guide was developed as part of UNICEF’s initiative to build the capacity of organizational leaders, field staff and volunteers who support the mental health and psychosocial needs of refugee and migrant children and their families at the border of the United States and Mexico. See particularly section 3 as a useful guide to support volunteers.
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Best Practices for Working with Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Humanitarian Contexts: A Guide for Staff and Volunteers in the United States (UNICEF): This guide was developed to prepare staff and volunteers working with unaccompanied migrant children in emergency contexts within the United States in order to increase their knowledge, skills and confidence for engaging and communicating with children in a way that supports their dignity, resilience and well-being and minimizes harm. It also provides practical guidance to clarify the roles of staff and volunteers and increase strategies they use to take care of themselves while doing this important work. Informed by field assessments and contextualized to the United States, the guide brings together best practices and global standards in child protection, life skills education, mental health and psychosocial support, youth participation, gender, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding, and children’s rights, amongst others.
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Building Bridges for Every Child: Reception, Care and Services for Unaccompanied Children in the United States (UNICEF): This report considers global discussions on adequate reception and care for unaccompanied migrant and asylum-seeking children. With a focus on practical solutions and promising practices in the U.S. and from around the globe, the report seeks to bridge the worlds of international child rights and protection, immigration and domestic child welfare. It illustrates how reception, care and services for unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S. can be built around the best interests of each child, with lessons for all contexts. A major section of the report is dedicated to supporting unaccompanied children’s transition to local communities.
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Caring for the Caregiver training package (UNICEF): The ‘Caring for the Caregiver’ training module aims to build front-line workers’ skills in strengths-based counselling to increase caregivers’ confidence and help them develop stress management, self-care, and conflict-resolution skills to support their emotional well-being.
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I Support My Friends: A training for children and adolescents on how to support a friend in distress(UNICEF, Save the Children, MHPSS Collaborative & WHO): ‘I Support My Friends’ is a training manual that equips older children and adolescents with the skills and knowledge to support their friends in distress, under the mentorship and guidance of trusted adults.
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Psychological First Aid: Guide for Field Workers (WHO, World Vision and War Trauma Foundation):This guide covers psychological first aid which involves humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events. It is written for people in a position to help others who have experienced an extremely distressing event. It gives a framework for supporting people in ways that respect their dignity, culture and abilities.
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The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation (UNICEF): The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation is a package of guidance, tools, activities, and supplies to support adolescents ages 10-18, especially those who are affected by humanitarian crises. UNICEF is currently working on modules specific to the Ukraine crisis.
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The Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Minimum Services Package (WHO and UNICEF): A tool to help humanitarian actors implement effective mental health and psychosocial support services. It includes checklist of minimum actions, direction to tools and resources, a costing tool and a gap analysis tool. Also available in Ukrainian.
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MHPSS Community of Practice for actors engaged in mental health and psychosocial support activities in the context of emergencies.
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Reimagining Girls’ Education: Solutions to Keep Girls Learning in Emergencies (UNICEF): This report represents an overview of evidence on what works to support learning outcomes for girls in emergencies.
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Cash and voucher assistance targeting for education outcomes: How to select beneficiaries to advance equity and maximize results (UNICEF): This guidance helps education actors to select which groups to target to address economic barriers to education.
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Response analysis tool – Effective decision making on the use of cash and voucher assistance for educational outcomes in emergencies (UNICEF): This tool helps education actors to assess the feasibility of cash and voucher assistance programmes to support education in their context.
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Early Childhood Development in Emergencies: Integrated programme guide (UNICEF): This programme guide helps humanitarian actors integrate early childhood development interventions throughout the response.
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In Search of Safety: Children and the Refugee Crisis in Europe (United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF): The education pack is aimed at teachers and contains learning activities that can help children in primary and secondary schools (from 7 years old upwards) make sense of the refugee crisis, with a focus on children and their rights.
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Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Tips for working with migrants, refugees and other vulnerable groups in the context of COVID-19 (UNICEF Europe and Central Asia): A set of recommendations on how to reach vulnerable groups with vital information, applicable for contexts beyond COVID-19.
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Practical Guidance for Risk Communication and community engagement (RCCE) for Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Migrants, and Host Communities Particularly Vulnerable to COVID-19 Pandemic (UNICEF, IOM, UNHCR, IFRC, WHO, UNODC and Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs): This practical guidance is designed to assist programme specialists to implement risk communication and community engagement activities for and with refugees, internally displaced persons, migrants and host communities. It is targeted to the COVID-19 pandemic but is applicable for contexts beyond the pandemic.
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Age, Gender and Diversity Considerations – COVID-19 (UNCHR): This guidance on Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) Considerations in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic is intended as a quick reference tool to support a diversity-sensitive COVID-19 response. Some of the recommendations may apply beyond the context of the pandemic.
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IASC Guidelines on Working with and for Young People in Humanitarian and Protracted Crises (Inter-Agency Standing Committee): Guidance for working with young people in humanitarian action.
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Child Participation in Local Governance (UNICEF): This guidance note provides recommendations for effective engagement of children and young people in local decision-making processes.
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Social Capital and Social Cohesion Measurement Toolkit for Community-Driven Development Operations (Mercy Corps and World Bank): This toolkit facilitates the measurement of social capital and social cohesion, particularly in the context of evaluating Community-Driven Development (CDD) programs in settings affected by fragility, conflict, migration and forced
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The Social Cohesion and Reconciliation (SCORE) Index for Ukraine (2021). UNICEF Ukraine supported a subcomponent focused on adolescents and schools.
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Youth, Peace and Security: A Programming Handbook (UNFPA, UNDP, DPPA, FBA): Tool for youth-focused and youth-sensitive social cohesion programming, focusing on process for programme design, youth-inclusive analysis, etc.
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Contributions of Early Childhood Development Programming to Sustainable Peace and Development(Early Childhood Peace Consortium): This resource looks at long-term perspective of lack of integrated ECD services for individual, family, and social risk/social cohesion & peace perspective.
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Designing with Children In Displacement (DeCID) handbook (UNICEF, UN-Habitat, CatalyticAction and University College London):
The DeCID handbook provides practical guidance for co-designing built interventions with children affected by displacement.
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Making Humanitarian Cash Transfer Programming Safer and More Accountable to Women and Girls(UNICEF):
A short document outlining key considerations for making cash transfers safer for women and girls.
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Action Learning Brief and Checklist: Partnering with Women- and Girl-led Organizations (UNICEF): This document outlines the advantages and steps to take to effectively engage with women- and girl-led organizations in humanitarian action.
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Tools for gender-responsive humanitarian action (UNICEF): This document presents a set of practical tools to advance gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women in humanitarian action.
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Tool for assessing the gender responsiveness of content for digital learning platforms (UNICEF): This tool assists organizations in assessing the gender-responsiveness of digital learning materials for children and adolescents.
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Social Protection for Children and Families in the Context of Migration and Displacement during COVID-19 (UNICEF): This note calls for urgent action to ensure social protection programmes are inclusive of children and families affected by migration and displacement
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Social Protection provisions to refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned from government and humanitarian responses (ODI): This paper reviews countries where refugees were included in government-led social protection responses and where humanitarian actors’ cash assistance was provided, sharing lessons learnt and policy recommendations.

A Toolkit for Integrating Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) into Humanitarian Response(Columbia University – Mailman School of Public Health and International Rescue Committee): The Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in Emergencies toolkit aims to provide streamlined guidance to organizations seeking to rapidly integrate MHM into existing responses.
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Newborn Care Supply Kits for Humanitarian Settings – Manual (Save the Children and UNICEF): This manual sets out the supply needs for supporting newborns in the early phases of an emergency.
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Parents and caregivers are heroes: Protecting our children in a crisis (WHO, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNODC, End Violence Against Children, WWO, ECDAN and Parenting for Lifelong Health): This short infographic, available in English, Ukrainian, and Russian, aims to support parents in protecting their children during a crisis.
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“Heroes Cry Too” and “Meeting a Hero”: These illustrated children’s story books, available in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, French and Czech, can be used both to support children who have fled Ukraine, and children in host communities.
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How to talk to your children about conflict and war (UNICEF): UNICEF resource for parents on how to discuss conflicts and emergencies with children.
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How to support your child during conflict and crisis situations(UNICEF): UNICEF resource for parents in emergency situations.
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5 tips for dealing with uncertainty in times of war(Voices of Youth): Tips for young people on how to manage anxiety and uncertainty caused by the conflict.
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How you can support your child during bombing? (UNICEF): UNICEF resource (in Ukrainian) to support parents in places with ongoign threats of violence.
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Four things you can do to support your teen’s mental health (UNICEF): UNICEF resource for parents on supporting their children’s mental health.
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Ukraine crisis: What can business do for children and their families? (UNICEF and the International Chamber of Commerce):
This document outlines the actions companies can take to support children in Ukraine affected by the war.
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