Child-Centred Accountability and Protection Evaluation (CAPE)

The Child-Centred Accountability and Protection Evaluation (CAPE) is a multi-institutional pilot project focused on measuring the impact of child protection services and programs addressing sexual abuse and exploitation.

The project is ‘centred’ on trying to understand the meaning of risk, protection and well being from the perspectives of vulnerable young people then translating this knowledge into actions for child rights systems change in Brazil, Colombia and Thailand. The International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) is implementing the first phase of CAPE with funding from the Oak Foundation.

The goals of CAPE are to:

• Better understand current “good practice” in monitoring and evaluating child protection services and other child protection related programs.

• Develop and test new monitoring and evaluation approaches that place children and their families at the centre of programming and policy development.

• Promote better ways of measuring the impact of child protection services and programs on the lives of children.

To achieve these objectives, IICRD and its partners will conduct country-specific research and workshops; collaborate with other international child protection monitoring and evaluation groups and facilitate a learning community on child protection monitoring and evaluation.

Join CAPE’s on-line learning community to participate in discussions and to read reports and updates, www.childrightsinpractice.org.