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Socio-cultural influences on the reproductive health of migrant women: A review of literature in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam
This report documents the findings of literature reviews conducted in 2010 in four Mekong countries. It explores the nexus between socio-cultural factors, health seeking behaviour, and access to sexual and reproductive health information and services amon
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Ten Good Practices in Essential Supplies Family Planning and Maternal Health
The worldwide trend toward smaller families—average family size has declined by half since 1950—is linked to advances in education and health care and increased opportunities for women. This great global success story can continue only if access to family
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The road to resilience- bridging relief and development for a more sustainable future
This document presents IFRC's definition of and perspectives on resilience. It presents resilience as the ability of individuals, communities, organisations or countries exposed to disasters, crises and underlying vulnerabilities to anticipate, reduce the
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Children’s participation: Mekong Youth Forum and COMMIT [Briefing paper]
A briefing paper concerning the positive impact of children’s participation in the Mekong Youth Forum (MYF) and the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT). It highlights three MYF meetings on human trafficking that took pla
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Country Risk Reduction Profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in Laos
According to the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), Laos experiences small-scale ongoing disasters, affecting over 10% of the population. Recurrent floods and droughts are considered the main natural hazards in addition to fires, landslides, eros
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Review: Teacher Support and Development Interventions
Save the Children commissioned research on teacher support and development as part of a strategy to build professional and technical capacity through sharing knowledge at global, regional and country levels. The research, which this document summarizes, s
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Strengthening inclusive education.
Inclusive education addresses the diverse learning needs of all kinds of learners. It reaches out to excluded groups and goes beyond providing physical access to learning institutions to encompass academic and instructional access to learning concepts. Th
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Improving the Quality of Schools for All in Lao PDR: A school improvement and self evaluation process
These materials are based on the Index for Inclusion, which was developed in the UK to support the development of learning and participation in schools. The Index for Inclusion has been adapted by many countries around the world and has now been adapted i
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Progress in child well-being- building on what works
Children’s well-being has improved dramatically thanks to increased global political will and efficient supportive programmes and policies, according to the present report, released by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Save the Children UK.
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Protecting Children from Violence Globally
These case studies demonstrate the impact Save the Children activities and programmes have had in protecting children from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation. The case studies specifically highlight the areas of focus of the Child Protection Initia
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A learning guide. Evidence-based advocacy for gender in education
This learning guide is an outcome of a Workshop on Evidence-based Advocacy for Gender Equity and Equality in Education held in Bangkok, Thailand, 8-12 September 2009. The workshop was attended by participants from nine countries from the East-Asia Pacific
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Children on the Move in South-East Asia: Why child protection systems are needed
Hundreds of thousands of children are migrating within the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and beyond in East and South-East Asia. Many are invisible to the public. Many have been exploited. Yet children’s migration has drawn little attention. This report