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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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Child Safe Tourism: The Tourist Perspective
As one of the world’s largest industries, tourism has significant economic impacts on the South-East Asian region. This report summarises findings from a recent online survey conducted with over 300 international travellers to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand
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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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The Rights of All Children in the Context of International Migration: Voices of Children on the Move
This report summarises the consultations with migrant children carried out in preparation for the Day of General Discussion (DGD) in five regions around the world over a period of 3 months, involving over 100 children. Children were consulted in China, My
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Understanding Governance of Early Childhood Development and Education Systems and Services in Low-Income Countries. Innocenti Working Paper No.2013-07
Over the past decade, early childhood development and education (ECDE) has received increasing attention. This has led to an influx of scientific, macroeconomic, and rights-based evidence, supporting the importance of equitably implementing quality ECDE p
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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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Progress Report: Criminal Justice Responses to Trafficking in Persons
The first reports of trafficking in the South East Asia region concerned cases of women and girls being moved within or across borders for purposes of sexual exploitation and servile marriage. This Report tracks the achievements of the past decade and exa
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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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Journeys- the life stories of twelve migrant children in the Mekong sub-region
A publication of children’s voices from the Greater Mekong Sub region reflecting their experiences with migration and vulnerability. Along their journey from their homes, these children experienced excitement, friendships, separation, discrimination, abus
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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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Children speak out- speech during the Day of General Discussion by 16-year old Sasima Srikhwang
Speech by 16-year old Sasima Srikhwang held during the 2012 Day of General Discussion on the challenges faced by children in international migration situations. Sasima, who was selected by the Forum on Child Migration of Thailand to participate in the Day