Timeline and Milestone: Global Programme  

Child Online Protection for Parents and Carers (introductory)

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This course is designed to create awareness among parents, guardians and caregivers about various child online engagements, their risks and benefits and help you to create a safer and more beneficial online family experience for your child at home.       

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Learning Objectives:

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• understand the importance of awareness about children's online engagements;

• recognize children's rights on the Internet;

• be aware of online risks and harm associated with the internet, and children's reactions to being exposed to them;

• know how to create safe environments for children;

• be familiar with the ways to help children at risk, offer your support to those harmed, and useful resources.

 

Child Online Protection for Parents and Carers (intermediate)

 

This course is designed to educate parents/caregivers/guardians on their role as social support in helping their children who might have encountered online harm.

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Learning Objectives:

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• be able to recognize signs of child online exploitation;

• know to avoid victimizing children who were sexually exploited;

• understand the types of online risks and harm associated with the internet, and how children will react to such situations;

• be able to perform immediate actions to help children subjected to online violence;

• be familiar with the resources for further advice and support.

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Child Online Protection for Academic and Non-Academic Staff (introductory):

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Now available in French and Spanish !

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This course is designed to create awareness among educators, teachers, youth workers, and youth organizations on the protection and rights of children online. The course is aimed to help educators create a safer online school experience for their students.

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Learning Objectives:

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• understand online circumstances that can put children at risk of being harmed;

• Identify risks for children while they explore the online world such as mis/disinformation, cyberbullying, online radicalization, screen time, and  inappropriate content;

• know which safety measures should be implemented at school and classroom levels to mitigate online risks;

• know how to properly respond and report if children were harmed online;

• be familiar with additional resources to get further support;

 

Child Online Protection for Social Workers, Academic and Non-Academic Staff (Intermediate)

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Now available in French and Spanish !

 

This course is designed to help educators better understand the risks related to Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (further - OCSEA), and how the educational environments can be used to prevent children from harm associated with OCSEA.

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Learning Objectives:

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• understand the role of educators in child online protection;

• be familiar with the 4C's classification of online risks;

• be able to identify different types of OCSEA and understand how they happen;

• know how to respond to the harmful online incidents and report them;

 

Child Online Protection for Policymakers  

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Now available in French!

 

This course is designed to help policy makers know more about child online behaviors, threats and risks associated with cyberspace, and support them in the development national policies and strategies in line with current global trends, that are holistic, inclusive, multi-sectoral and evidence based.

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Learning Objectives:

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• know more about  children’s use of the Internet and their rights;

• learn how technologies impact children , risks and harms online;

• Learn about the principles of Safety by Design for policy making on child online protection;

• learn about the different global and regional  frameworks on Child Online Protection;

• synthesize the elements from the global frameworks to apply in the local context;

• familiarise with the global actors involved in protection of children online;

• develop a  multi stakeholder coordinated national child online protection strategy and prepare national policies, especially adapting to emerging trends on ICTs.;

• learn about coordination process between different line ministries and national stakeholders on Child Online Protection, including introduction to child participation frameworks, especially related to policy making;

• learn more about the core child protective services that play a critical role in Child Online Protection.

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Child Online Protection for ICT Industry 

 

This e-learning package for industry, developed by ITU and UNICEF, includes four modules spanning foundational child rights and business issues and knowledge on the digital environment. If your company develops or deploys digital technologies, these modules will support you to better understand how child rights intersect with your company’s responsibilities, potential risks and harms for children to think about in your daily operations, and ideas of where to go next on your child rights journey.

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This training is primarily targeted at personnel (cross-functional) of businesses that engage in digital activities, including technology companies. 

It can also be valuable for business advisers and consultants focused on social impacts or human rights; and child online protection practitioners engaging with industry on child rights impacts.

 

We warmly invite you to use these modules to support your and colleagues’ understanding of child rights issues, and to build confidence to engage in targeting problems and developing solutions with your peers and other relevant stakeholders. Happy learning!

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Learning objectives:

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Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:  

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• Describe the core frameworks underpinning child rights and responsible business conduct; 

• List the types of online risks and harms that children encounter in the digital environment; 

• Discuss the issue of online child sexual exploitation and abuse and how it relates to digital business activities; 

• Recognize  opportunities to positively support children’s rights and well-being through business actions; 

• Identify actions that your business can take to better integrate child rights across digital policies and practices.