| Partner | Connection/Goal | Added value |
| Child Protection Working Group (CPWG, UN Cluster) Geneva | CPWG member since 2009. Active participation and leadership in several task forces related to standard setting, learning and advocacy. | Key strategic platform for all child protection developments and actors in the humanitarian field. Provides link to UN clusters and gives access to coordinated interagency learning initiatives, training opportunities. On one hand this improves the quality of War Child interventions and thereby the effects on children. On the other hand, we can directly communicate violations of the rights of children in our programmes to UN level |
| Education International Conference | Since 2012 with the aim to promote and communicate about innovations in ICT and education. | War Child is recognised as an important agency in ICT, education and innovation. Opportunities for collaboration on research projects, funding, etc. By innovating War Child wants to increase its impact on the lives of children and reach more children. |
| Inter-agency Network on Education in Emergencies (INEE). | Member since 2006. Exchange of knowledge and experience. War Child was invited to participate as resource expert in the Teaching & Learning initiative, and the working group on Minimum Standards. | War Child’s expertise in psychosocial support and education are regarded by INEE as a very relevant addition to the work of other members. War Child is regularly invited to expert panels. By sharing expertise and lessons learnt, we can improve the quality of our interventions and interventions of other organisations. Better quality interventions result in more effect on the lives of children. |
| Inter-Agency Standing Committee: Reference Group on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) | Member since 2010. The Reference Group follows up on the implementation of the Guidelines on MHPSS. | Networking, positioning, collaboration, learning, exchange of information. |
| Inter-agency working group on child-friendly materials | Joint development and publication of a series of multilingual child and youth friendly leaflets on child rights instruments. | Wide dissemination with global stakeholders such as UNICEF, Office of the Special Representative of the United Nation’s Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict, Save the Children and at national level in country offices. |
| Keeping Children Safe Coalition | Member since 2006. Coalition increases safeguards offered to children, through improved child protection policies and practice within the agencies and authorities that work with children. Member since 2006. | Access to key actors in child protection and child safety and state of the art international good practice. Access to key training opportunities for War Child staff. |
| NGO Group on the Child Rights Convention (CRC), including Working Group on violence and children | Membership since 2009 Co-convenor of the Violence Against Children working group. | Provides direct connection to the Human Rights Council and critical platform for War Childs programming and advocacy work. |
| People in Aid | Member since 2004. Network gathers knowledge and develops policy regarding human resource management in the development field and organises training courses. | Provides HR tools and information regarding human resource management in programme countries |
| Violence against Children group, Netherlands | Member since 2009. Emerged out of the Millennium Schokland Akkoorden. Multidisciplinary platform between academia, policy makers and NGOs for knowledge sharing and policy influencing. | Access to key child protection actors in the Netherlands and to platform, which specifically follows up recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children and related protection issues with the Dutch government. |
| Partos, Netherlands | Member since 2006. Knowledge exchange between organisations focusing on international development cooperation. Cooperation started on PM&E requirements under MFS II. Member of working group on PM&E. | Provides an opportunity for a professional and open exchange with other like-minded organisations. Leading role of Partos in joint evaluation under MFS II gives way to a renewed partnership between War Child and Partos. Learn from other member organisations to improve War Child’s own practice, especially in Planning, monitoring and evaluation |
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