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Understanding the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation: A statistical overview of their co-occurrence and risk factors
The well-being of millions of girls around the world is threatened by child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Both child marriage and FGM have existed for generations due to gender inequality. In many countries where both practices are common,
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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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The Climate Crisis: Climate change impacts, trends and vulnerabilities of children in sub Saharan Africa
Children are the least responsible for climate change. However, they will bear the greatest burden of its impact. At the time of writing, nearly 160 million children live in high drought-severity zones and 500 million live in extremely high flood occurren
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Migration, Displacement and Education: Building bridges, not walls
No part of the world is currently affected by migration and displacement as much as the Arab States. Even though the region only accounts for five percent of the global population, it holds 32 percent of the global amount of refugees and 38 percent of the
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Young and on the Move: Children and youth in mixed migration flows within and from the Horn of Africa
The purpose of this study is to provide an updated overview of children and youth as specific (albeit non-homogenous) groups in mixed migration flows within, through and from the Horn of Africa. The report does not purport to be exhaustive, but rather to
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Livelihoods at the limit: Reducing the risk of disasters and adapting to climate change. Evidence from the consolidated Household Economy Analysis database
This report draws on the compiled Household Economy Analysis dataset and analysis tools to answer some of the most pressing questions about disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in a range of livelihood contexts:- Which single shock has th
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Regional Inter-Agency Child Protection Network Minutes of Meeting: 25 August 2011
These are the minutes of the meeting of the Regional Inter-Agency Child Protection Network (RICPN) meeting held 25 August 2011 at the UNHCR regional office in Nairobi. Alliance Materials
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System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa
Humanitarian response in pastoral areas in the Horn of Africa has consistently been late, despite an enormous investment in early warning. Attempts to improve early response focus on improving the performance of one or two actors, or introducing new tools
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Programme conjoint UNFPA-UNICEF sur les Mutilations génitales féminines / excision: Accélérer le changement
The objective of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Accelerating Change is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries within a generation. The programme’s holistic, cross-border approach is fo
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UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Accelerating Change 2011
The objective of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting: Accelerating Change is to contribute to the abandonment of FGM/C in 17 African countries within a generation. The programme’s holistic, cross-border approach is fo
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Analysis of Results and Lessons Learned: 2012 IASC Gender Marker Report
To ensure women and girls, boys and men have equal access to and benefit from humanitarian assistance, their different needs must be understood and met. This is why the IASC instituted a “gender marker” which is a tool that codes, on a 0-2 scale, whether
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A Dangerous Delay. The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa
This new report from Oxfam and Save the Children “A Dangerous Delay: The cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa” says how tens of thousands of lives could have been spared in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Afric