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Building Systemic Resilience in School Systems: The way forward
The sudden transition to online learning due to the COVID-19 outbreak has worsened pre-existing inequalities among students. In this policy paper, the Asian Development Bank and the HEAD Foundation recommend blended learning with resource boosting to brid
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Guardians of the Planet: Asia Pacific children and youth voices on climate crisis and disaster risk reduction
The worldwide youth movement that brought over 10 million people to the streets in September 2019, is calling on people across the world to take part in ‘climate strikes’. In Asia and the Pacific, from August 2019 to January 2020, a total of 9,681 childre
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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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USAID Nurture 1000 Days Home Visit
This video is a demonstration video of 1000 days households’ home visit which is a key intervention of USAID Nurture. 1000 Days households’ Home Visit is an important and effective step to help families know the importance of Small Doable Actions regardin
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USAID Nurture Community Facilitators
In USAID Nurture, Community Facilitators (CFs), elected by their own community members, does not only act as village volunteers, devoting their times, efforts and skills, but are the key driver in nutritional and WASH behavior change process for 1000-day
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Mapping Child Vulnerability Dimensions in the Lao PDR: A spatial-statistical analysis
This report provides an overview of child vulnerability by ranking all districts and villages in Lao PDR. The study is intended to inform program strategies by directing resources and efforts toward the most vulnerable children in the country. The report
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Corporate Responses to Protecting Children's Rights in Southeast Asia
In an effort to provide insights and guidance on how businesses protect – or fall short in protecting – children’s rights in the Southeast Asia region, this report makes use of two essential Global Child Forum research products: The Children Rights and Bu
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Lessons Learned Disability Inclusion in Primary Education
World Vision International in Lao PDR implemented activities supporting inclusive education for children with disabilities in 22 villages in the district of Xaybouathong, Khammouane province from August 2017- September 2018, under the umbrella of the BEQU
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Accelerating Healthy Agriculture and Nutrition (AHAN) Project: Gender analysis
This gender analysis developed recommendations for prioritizing actions under the specific gender objective of World Vision's AHAN Project. The Accelerating Healthy Agriculture and Nutrition (AHAN) Project, led by World Vision and funded by the European U
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Why Invest in Girls in Lao PDR?
Lao People's Democratic Republic has seen an impressive amount of economic growth in the last few years. This flier provides data on Lao PDR's recent economic development and motivates why investment in girls injunction with the recent development is cruc
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Revealing the Rainbow: The human rights situation of Southeast Asia’s LGBTIQ communities and their defenders
Just over a decade ago, the United Nations (UN) introduced a new process for periodically evaluating the human rights performances of each its Member States. That process, known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), during the review Member States recei
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Impact Evaluation of Literacy Boost in Laos
This report examines the results of a learner background survey and reading assessment conducted in October 2017 as the endline evaluation of a pilot Literacy Boost project in Bolikhamxai Province in Laos. Funded by Save the Children Korea, Literacy Boost