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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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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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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
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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Studies Report
Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address safer learning facilities, school disaster management, and risk reduction and resilience education. The following case studies do
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Formative Research and Gender Analysis
The U.S. Agency for International Development “Nurture” (USAID Nurture) project, led by Save the Children (SC) is aimed at contributing to a reduction in young child stunting. Over a three-year period, USAID Nurture will be implemented in all villages of
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Education Against the Odds: Impact of hazards and disasters on access and quality of Education in Lao PDR
This study aimed to complement other recent studies on the barriers to achieving children’s right to a free basic quality education, and to identify significant sources of inequities in educational participation, particularly as the result of hazards, dis
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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Study: Scaling up CSS assessment in Laos and Indonesia
Due to government lacking a way to assess CSS policy interventions and efficiently identify high risk schools and apply appropriate interventions, Laos and Indonesia used the CSS Assessment Suite (three digital tools that assist governments to monitor, ev
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Guidelines on Integrating Disaster Risk and Climate Change into Village Socio-Economic Plans
>> Click here to return to the Community Based Disaster Risk Management Minimum Standards The Social Economic Development Plan is a tool used by governments to set overall objectives and targets for the immediate (one-year) and future (five to ten years)
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Regional Workshop to Promote Family Acceptance in ASEAN
The ASEAN SOGIE Caucus, in partnership with Trung Tâm ICS in Vietnam, organized the Regional Workshop to Promote Family Acceptance of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ) Persons in ASEAN. Allies from academia, the child rights
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Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Laos
Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. Laos, a landlocked country of 6.5 million people in Southeast Asia, has seen impressive economic growth
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Child Rights Situation Analysis Within the ASEAN Region
In the endeavor to promote and protect rights and well-being of the child, Save the Children sees the importance of having a good understanding of the situation for children in the country context in order to inform its strategic decisions at the regional
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Child Protection in the Digital Age: National responses to online child sexual abuse and exploitation in ASEAN Member States
A recently adopted ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on the Elimination of Violence against Children includes the development of preventive measures against violence on the internet. In contribution, UNICEF has undertaken a mapping of existing frameworks, leg