The JOFA project’s consortium approach has provided important opportunities for partners to increase their organisational leverage by building joint advocacy approaches to address prioritised child protection issues at the national level. Before this project, Joining Forces Initiative member agencies in Senegal, Kenya and Uganda had already established a collective platform to work on issues related to violence against children. Given the pandemic context and the scope of activities prioritised under JOFA in its urgent responses to the COVID-19 crisis, there was limited focus on advocacy goals in the project design. Despite this, throughout the JOFA project, strong examples emerged in targeted countries that highlight how the consortium approach provided opportunities to build, strengthen and achieve tangible results through joint national level advocacy efforts in the area of child protection.