Year 2 improving sustainable access to child  protection services Year 2 improving sustainable access to child protection services intervention suggested by WV and IRD aims at increasing and providing more equitable access for boys and girls to quality child protection interventions in targeted priority locations Armanaz, Azaz, amp Idlib,(rf: cluster geographical priority areas) in line with the Child Protection Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Action and other standards and SOPs such as: UNICEF alternative care SOP, CP Case management SOP, Children’s Emergency funds SOP by IRD (see annex), UNICEF Guidance for Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Child Protection Interventions (UNICEF 2018). Furthermore, the intervention is grounded on the CP cluster objectives (2019) focusing on providing life-saving child protection specialized services for the most vulnerable children (boys and girls) including children with disabilities. 
More specifically, the intervention will address the specific protection needs of children who are survivors or at risk of violence, abuse and exploitation, more details are available in the vulnerability annex for pre-identified vulnerabilities. This is translated into delivering specialized services, including safe referral and identification, case management and individual protection assistance (IPA), for high risk cases, such as unaccompanied and separated children, child laborers, children associated with armed forces and groups, children deprived of their liberty, child survivors of violence, including sexual violence, and other high-risk cases. In order to identify the extremely vulnerable children, their needs, and assess the situation appropriately, WV and IRD will be using WV’s evidence based model in child protection and advocacy (rf: ADAPT CP) in order to assess gaps, challenges and opportunities on CP.  This will be used to tailor the intervention content and approach while also feeding into advocacy initiatives at different levels (local and at cluster level).(Output 1.1). 
In order to support the extremely vulnerable children, the intervention will support and enhance protective environments namely through strengthening community based committees, referred to CPNs. The intervention will map existing committees and support them through capacity building and skill development related to CPMS, CPiE, safe identification and referral (rf: training topics BoQ) and the required service mapping to refer cases. Furthermore, the CPN will therefore support in the identification of the extremely vulnerable children and refer them to the needed specialized and non-specialized services.
As such, the CPN will ensure to sustain the implementation of activities and CP referral in case of risk and limited access (short term), while on the other hand the existing structure will be able to address and respond to CP issues even when funding is not available. (long-term) (Output 2.1)
In order to provide quality specialized services and enhance the capacities of services providers, including CPNs, individual or case-based services must be provided with adequate training in line with the Sub-Cluster’s standard operating procedures on case management. This will include training social workers/case workers who will be providing services within a supervised context. Furthermore, in order to enhance the overall service delivery, other humanitarian actors will be targeted by the training together with the CPN. (Output 3.1). 
Finally, it is important to note that given the sensitivity of the data collected under this intervention, project team will be following the Media Guidelines developed by the protection cluster which ensure data protection and confidentiality at all stages, information sharing protocols and acquiring informed consent from beneficiaries