Collaboration with and capacity building of government institutions leads to better secured protection, as well as greater opportunities for safe family reunification of child migrants. This best practice from our <em>Children On The Move </em>programme in Amhara region, Ethiopia, was shared by Terre des Hommes Netherlands in the “Regional Conference on the Protection of Child Migrants in the Horn of Africa”. The conference, jointly organised by Better Migration Management (BMM) and Save the Children International, aimed to promote a regional exchange on the protection of child migrants, particularly irregular child migrants.