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Wessells, Mike
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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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Most Vulnerable Children: World Vision Uk Programme Inclusion and Impact
This report is the product of research conducted by the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) and Columbia University for World Vision UK (WVUK). The research intends to assess and analyze the extent to which WVUK’s Child Protec
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An Overview of the Community Driven Intervention to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone
Globally, the dominant approaches used by NGOs to establish or support community-based child protection mechanisms are characterized by relatively low levels of community ownership. This is problematic since community ownership is one of the primary deter
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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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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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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