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Psychosocial Support: Facilitating psychosocial wellbeing and social and emotional learning (Guidance note)
The purpose of the INEE Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support is to clarify the importance of supporting the psychosocial wellbeing of children and youth, and to offer specific strategies for how to incorporate psychosocial support (PSS) into education re
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What are the Most Effective Early Response Strategies and Interventions to Assess and Address the Immediate Needs of Children Outside of Family Care?
Children outside of family care face increased risk of threats to their well-being, have lower educational achievement, and experience adverse developmental outcomes. While it is generally accepted that early response and intervention is critical to reduc
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The Impact of the School-Based Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) Program on Conflict-Affected Children in Northern Uganda
Children in northern Uganda have undergone significant psychosocial stress during the region’s lengthy conflict. A Psychosocial Structured Activities (PSSA) program was implemented in 21 schools identified as amongst those most severely affected by confli
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Inter-Agency Guide to the Evaluation of Psychosocial Programmes in Humanitarian Crises
UNICEF, together with partners, has developed this Inter-Agency Guide to the Evaluation of Psychosocial Programming in Humanitarian Crises to assist organizations working in the field of psychosocial support to think through key issues in planning and imp
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Sealing the Past, Facing the Future: An evaluation of a program to support the reintegration of girls and young women formerly associated with armed groups and forces in Sierra Leone
This paper reports on an evaluation of a program in Sierra Leone that sought to support the community reintegration of young women and girls formerly associated with armed groups and forces. In the absence of baseline data, we used locally-derived indicat
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Defining Best Practice in Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Settings: A Delphi Study
Thirty specialists in humanitarian work supporting the care and protection of children in crisis settings completed a 3-phase Delphi consultation. Proposals of best practice were elicited, reviewed, and rated by participants. A high level of consensus sup
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Assessing the impact of microfinance programming on children: An evaluation from post-tsunami Aceh
The tsunami on December 24th, 2004 devastated the region of Aceh, Indonesia. This article presents an evaluation of the long-term impact of microfinance programs on Acehnese children organized by Save the Children as part of the post tsunami economic reco
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Child Protection Information Management Mapping: Towards a data surveillance system system in Indonesia
Successful implementation of child protection and social welfare services is dependent upon the availability and use of relevant child protection and social welfare data. Yet Indonesia does not currently possess a system capable of providing accurate and
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Community mental health treatment, protection and promotion for women and children in Aceh Findings from an evaluation of programs supported by the Health Services Program
The main objectives of the Aceh women and children protection program are to: strengthen existing community structures to address the psychosocial needs of women and children; and build capacity of sub-district health center staff to recognize mental heal
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Children and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami- An evalutation of UNICEF's response (2005- 2008). Overall synthesis report
The purpose of the evaluation in Aceh, Indonesia, is to determine outcomes and impacts of UNICEF’s response to the tsunami within the child protection sector and draw lessons and recommendations – both for the UNICEF and the sectors as a whole- that will
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Guide to the Evaluation of Psychosocial Programming in Emergencies
UNICEF has developed this Guide to the Evaluation of Psychosocial Programming in Emergencies to assist UNICEF, its partners and other organizations working in the field of psychosocial support in thinking through key issues in planning and implementing an
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Developing Culturally Relevant Indicators of Reintegration for Girls, Formerly Associated with Armed Groups, in Sierra Leone Using a Participative Ranking Methodology
This article describes a participative ranking methodology for identifying local understanding of reintegration and adjustment of potential value in programme planning and evaluation. It was applied in the specific context of girls formerly associated wit