We commit to working together as faith, interfaith and non-faith actors in an effort to meet the needs and rights of Children on the Move, contributing to the Multistakeholder Child Rights pledge and Health & Mental Health Pledge:
By 2025, the Faith Action for Children on the Move Coalition, in partnership with local governments, will support roundtable discussions, policy briefs and specific identified actions in collaboration with local actors to promote and ensure faith-sensitive MHPSS programming for refugee and host community children, ensuring meaningful participation of children and their communities.
By 2027, the Faith Action for Children on the Move Coalition will join government, multilateral, and local actors to develop training and capacity-sharing resources on faith-sensitive MHPSS for faith leaders and mental health practitioners, ensuring children and their communities are consulted in the development of content.
By 2028, the Faith Action for Children on the Move Coalition will partner with governments, academic and/or multilateral actors to support revision and update of the Faith Sensitive MHPSS guidance in partnership with local partners to ensure consultation of and a focus on children and their communities.
By 2028, the Faith Action for Children on the Move Coalition, with governments, academic institutions, multilateral, and local partners, will build evidence on the effectiveness of faith- sensitive MHPSS programming in influencing mental health and well-being outcomes for refugee and host community children.
Lead organisations include Arigatou International, World Vision International and Queen Margaret University. Others involved in implementation are ADRA, Anglican Communion, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Partnership on Religion and Development, Joint Learning Initiative for Faith and Local Communities and World Council of Churches.
