The Interagency Learning Initiative on Community-based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems and the Community Child Protection Exchange presented a webinar with Mike Wessells, Kathleen Kostelny and Ken Ondoro to discuss recent research and what we are learning about community-based child protection mechanisms in three rural and urban areas in Kenya. The presenters also discussed how these mechanisms link to more formal child protection systems.

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