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Fear and Flight: An uprooted generation of children at risk in Democratic Republic of Congo
While the world is looking the other way, the lives and futures of more than 3 million displaced children are at risk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Whole communities have been forced to flee due to a succession of brutal attacks in the ea
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Growing Up Great! Shows Promise in Skills Development and Norms Shifting After One Year
After one year of implementation of the Growing Up GREAT! intervention- the results are in! This brief presents summary results of the evaluation of Growing Up GREAT!, a multi-level intervention designed to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive healt
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Killed and Maimed: A generation of violations against children
Millions of children are living in conflict. Hundreds of thousands of children have experienced grave violations of their rights – a quarter of a million violations against children have now been verified by the UN. Of these, more than 40% have involved t
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The Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence on the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It aims to enable a greater understanding of the unique circumstances of women and girls in the region, which could assi
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Girls on the Move Research Series
The dream of a better future makes millions of girls leave their homes each year. Every girl carries a powerful story- why she migrates, the risks she faces, and the vision of a future she heads toward. It is important that girls' stories are heard. Girls
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Barriers to Education for Girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo
There is limited literature on the barriers to girls’ education in the DRC. The main findings of the research suggest that cultural history, economic lack, and the coexistence of these are the main factors hindering access to girls’ education. Limited dat
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L'Impact de la COVID-19 et Ebola chez les Enfants en Republique Democratique du Congo
L’étude sur l’impact de la Covid-19 et la maladie à virus Ebola (MVE) chez les enfants en République Démocratique du Congo a été réalisée au mois d’août 2020 dans les zones d’intervention de Save the Children International (SCI). Les provinces concernées
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Childhood Morbidity and its Determinants: Evidence from 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
The global under-five mortality rate reduced from 93 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 39 per 1000 live births in 2018. Still, the rate increased in sub-Saharan Africa from 31% in 1990 to 54% in 2018. One of the main causes to these deaths is morbidity. In
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Living in Chains: Shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people, both adult and children around the globe with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives. Inadequate support and mental health services, as well as stigma concerning people with psychosocial d
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Innovation for Localisation: Exploring the Impact of Channeling Unrestricted Funding to NNGOs in Emergency Contexts
The impetus for advancing solutions towards local leadership, dispelling the risk narrative, and as a result increasing L/NNGOs’ access to unrestricted institutional funding has never been greater. Despite this, research and evidence in this area is limit
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The Health of Internally Displaced Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Around 41,3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) were located around the world at the end of 2018. The same year, internal displacement in sub-Saharan Africa was higher than in any other region, with approximately 7,4 million people displaced due t
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Children and Young People’s Voices in Times of COVID-19: Voices of children and young people in the United Kingdom (Milton Keynes) and World Vision International’s young leaders programme
This research is part of World Vision’s global campaign ‘It Takes A World to End Violence Against Children’ which seeks to see an end to all forms of violence against children everywhere. We gathered 110 children and young people online from 14 countries