Guiding Principles
The Holy Bible. The Message translation
Matthew 25:40 “I’m telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me – you did it to me.”
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
The United Nations Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
The principles from the Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action
• Safety, dignity and rights
• Strengthen children’s resilience
• Access to impartial assistance
• Survival and development
• Assist to recover
• Best Interest of the child
• Help people claim their rights
• Non-discrimination
• Strengthen child protection systems
• Child participation
Specific principles from the Sphere Handbook
“protecting people from physical and psychological harm”; “enhance people’s safety, dignity and rights and avoid exposing them to further harm”; and “claiming their rights, access available remedies and recover from the effects of abuse”
Specific goals from the Sustainable Development Goals
