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Childlight East Asia and Pacific Hub
Uniting research and action to protect children from sexual abuse in our region
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Challenge
Governments, practitioners and communities struggle to address child sexual exploitation and abuse without reliable data or coordinated strategies. The Childlight East Asia and Pacific Hub solves this by generating strong evidence foundations, translating research into policy and practice, and fostering collaboration across the East Asia and Pacific region to protect children from sexual violence.
Solution
The Hub builds shared data systems and resources to confront child sexual exploitation and abuse wherever it occurs. It unites researchers, governments, communities and frontline organisations to generate reliable evidence, develop practical frameworks and translate findings into policies and programs.
Its collaborative model supports long-term partnerships and integration into existing child protection and law enforcement systems, ensuring sustainability.
By embedding research in practice and policy, it provides actionable tools to protect children and drive systemic change.
Target customers / end-users
• governments and policymakers shaping child protection strategies
• frontline services and practitioners responding to abuse
• non-government and community partners representing victims, survivors and children.
Progress
• AU $ 2.8m in core funding with additional support from UNSW and grant success
• collaborated with the UNICEF to deliver research
• implemented world-first child sexual abuse perpetration prevalence survey.
Research Centre
5 active collaborations
Innovative research translation
Healthy Living
Childlight addresses child sexual exploitation and abuse as a global and preventable pandemic. We build strong data foundations to guide evidence and action, uniting researchers, practitioners and policymakers. Our collaborative approach is shaping policy and practice, with increasing engagement from the government and nongovernment sectors across the region.
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