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About Child Frontiers Voices

Overview

 

Child Frontiers VOICES aims to influence the child protection sector in positive ways to be more innovative, effective, and forward-thinking. Building on and supporting others’ endeavour, we aim to be a catalyst or spark for change. We seek to be bold, prepared to disrupt our assumptions and question ingrained ways of doing things. We believe that supporting the next generation of leaders, especially in the Global South and among historically underrepresented populations, is a key to effecting change. Child Frontiers VOICES seeks to bring about practical, tangible improvements in child protection around the world.

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Key tenets

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  • Exploring – we examine unanswered questions, imagine and propose fresh, innovative solutions.

  • Thinking – we are convenors, advocates, synthesizers.

  • Doing – we disseminate knowledge and establish practical initiatives and projects that include measurable goals and further steps for long-term sustainability.

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Values and Principles

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Child Frontiers VOICES is values-led, anchored in robust and current humanitarian and development principles. At a minimum, we commit to:

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  • Recognising our duty and responsibility to effect change and leave a positive legacy

  • Building and generating localised, contextualised initiatives-led, wherever possible, by people whose lives will be impacted

  • Ensuring that our work does not replicate colonial imbalance and power biases

  • Minimizing our own echo chamber that reinforces prevailing norms and assumptions

  • Demystifying our work, guaranteeing access to ideas and concepts and promoting genuine inclusion

  • Finding cost-effective, fiscally responsible ways to work, ensuring resources are maximized, and go to the right people

  • Working with integrity, openness, humility and humbleness.

Nairobi Dialogue
25-26 Nov 2025

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Inaugural Event

Child Frontiers VOICES presents our first regional dialogue: The Next Chapter: Re-thinking children’s care and protection in East and Southern Africa 

 

The dialogue will take place in Nairobi on 25 & 26 November 2025. 

This event, using Open Space Technology, will bring together leaders, practitioners and innovators to explore the most pressing issues concerning children’s care and protection in East and Southern Africa, and reflect how our community can work collectively in the future. 

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