Violence Against Children in All Care Settings Expert Consultation

Violence against Children in All Care Settings Expert Consultation June 21-22, 2017 Nairobi, Kenya Day 1: June 21, 2017 Official Opening and Welcome 9:00-10:00 . Dr. Benyam Mezmur, Chair, ACERWC or other ACERWC representative, Official welcome and introduction of the SRSG . Florence Martin, Better Care Network, Executive Director, Welcoming Address . Kenyan government office to officially open the meeting and welcome to Nairobi Session 1: VAC in the family setting and as a push factor resulting in separation 10:00-11:00 Chair: Geoffrey Oyat, Save the Children Objective: Presenting an overview of what the evidence tells us about violence in the family and how violence against children in the family is a push factor for child separation. Panel presentation in plenary and question and answer . Ms, Sonia Vohito, Global Initiative to End Corporal Punishment: . Ruth Koshal, Girls Not Brides: . Maggie Crewes, RETRAK . TBDVAC in emergency settings . Twenty-minute Q and A Tea break 11:00-11:30 Session II: VAC and Alternative Care 11:30-1:00 Chair: Shimeles Tsegaye, African Child Policy Forum, (ACPF) Objective: This session will highlight violence against children in different forms of alternative care Panel presentation in plenary . Dr. Franziska Meinck, Oxford: . TBD, Save the Children West Africa. . Eric Rosenthal, Disability Rights International: . TBD: Trafficking of children under the guise of “care” . Q & A (20 minutes) Lunch Break 1:00-2:00 BCN films on alternative care 2:00-2:30

Session III: VAC and Children after Care 2:30-3:30

1 Objective: To better understand how VAC affects children after leaving care and how to better prepare children, families and communities to address this issue. World Café format: Small groups will spend 15 minutes at each booth and will circulate around to three groups. . Mr. Peter Kamau Kenyan Society of Care leavers . Delia Pop, Hope and Homes for Children . Katie Januario, Catholic Relief Services Zambia Session IV: Programming and interventions to address VAC in all care settings 3:30-4:30 . Akua Boatemaa Duah, Challenging Heights, Ghana . Franziska Meink, Oxford . TBD: national regulations, SOPs, guidelines addressing VAC in different care settings . TBD: training of the workforce to address VAC within care Closing plenary and recap of the day’s events: 4:30-5:00

Celebratory cocktail reception 5:30-7:00

DAY 2: June 22, 2017 Benyam or Fassil: Recap of Day 1 and objectives of Day 2 8:30-9:30

Session I: Panel presentation on what key rights bodies and national governments are doing to address VAC and Care, what the gaps are and what they want to do to address these gaps. 9:30-10:30 Chair: Fassil Mariam Panelists: TBD African Union, Regional Treaty Body, national government and UNICEF ESARO Session II: Sub-regional perspectives and small working groups: Identification of strengths, gaps and necessary next steps to strengthen policy and practice to prevent, respond and track VAC and care. 10:30-11:30 Each working group (EAC, SADC, ECOWAS) will have a lead and a rapporteur and the group will identify existing strengths of policy and practice in the region, existing gaps and make recommendations for next steps This is a working tea break. Session III: Group work presentations in plenary 11:30-12:30 (each group will have 10 minutes to present their recommendations and five minutes for questions.

Summary of common recommendations and reading of the conference declaration.

Closing 12:30-1:00 ACPF and BCN, present next steps0-5: AU Social Affairs Department, Dr Olawale Maiyegun, Official closing

Lunch Transport to airport for those leaving in the afternoon or evening