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No Choice: It takes a world to end the use of child soldiers
World Vision commissioned research by Child Frontiers International, 'No Choice', to better understand children associate with armed groups. Featuring primary and secondary research from Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Condo
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Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2018
In 2018, killing and maiming of children reached record high levels since the creation of the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict. More than 24 000 grave violations against children were recorded by the United Nations in 20 c
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Building Evidence to inform the Effective Use of CASH and Voucher Assistance in Emergency Sanitation and Hygiene Programming
A collation of 5 case studies of utilization of CASH/Voucher Assistance are presented and analysed in the attempt of building evidence on their utilization in emergency WASH Sanitation and HP programming. Findings and Recommendations are provided followin
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Advancing the Localisation Agenda in Protection Coordination Groups
In many countries across the world, local organizations are the first responders to humanitarian crises. These actors do not only provide crucial cultural and historical knowledge to responses, but also access to local networks and affected communities. F
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Rethink Child Soldiers: A new approach to the reintegration of all children associated with armed forces and groups
This report aims to bring global attention to the challenges related to the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups, and promote better policy, practice and funding in the future. The findings are based on a literature review and
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Fear and Isolation: The impact of Ebola and war on child protection in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing a new Ebola crisis. The most recent outbreak began in August 2018, and by late November 2019, more than half of the health zones in North Kivu and Ituri provinces had recorded cases of the dise
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Children and Armed Conflict Special Update: August 2019
On August 2, 2019, the UN Security Council will hold its open debate on children and armed conflict (CAC) under Poland’s presidency. Poland will seek to highlight the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1882 (2009), as well
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“It is very painful to talk about”: Impact of attacks on education on women and girls
In conflict zones across the world, children’s access to education are profoundly undermined by attacks on education and military use of schools. This have devastating impacts on all children, but boys and girls often face different risks. This requires d
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Community-Level Conflict Prevention and Peace Building in DRC and Somalia
During the last decades, the humanitarian community has struggled to find durable solutions to displacement, given the complex factors that are involved. There is an emerging consensus that better coordination between humanitarian, development and peace a
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Women's Reproductive Health Needs Don't Stop when Disaster Strikes
This infographic details the need for family planning in displacement and calls for increased investment by the global community.
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READY: Global Readiness for Major Disease Outbreak Response
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of READY- Save the Children's initiative for increasing global readiness for response to major disease outbreaks. READY brings together the best parts of what works across the consortium’s operational, academic, c
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Rethinking Capacity and Complementarity for a More Local Humanitarian Action
To better inform humanitarian action that is as local as possible and as international as necessary, Humanitarian Policy Group launched a research project on capacity and complementarity in 2017. The goal of this project was to gain understanding on how c