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Nutrition in the WHO African Region
Today, nutrition is considered a fundamental pre-requisite to health and well-being, and a primary indicator of future human capital development. The first 1000 days of a child's life is especially crucial. Physical growth and cognitive development within
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Contribution of Community Health Workers to Improving Access to Timely and Appropriate Case Management of Childhood Fever in Mozambique
Large-scale evaluations in several settings have demonstrated that lay community health workers can be trained to provide quality case management of childhood illnesses. This article assessed the contributed of an iCCM strategy in Mozambique to improved c
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Participa! Edição no. 7
This is the 7th edition of the Participate! CEP (Citizenship and Participation) newsletter. This issue is dedicated to the participation of children in service quality monitoring via an education programme implemented in Mozambique. The newsletter seeks t
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Feasibility of Community-level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia: perspectives, knowledge and task-sharing from Nigeria, Mozambique, Pakistan and India
Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP), particularly pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, remain one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and are contributory in many fetal/newborn deaths. This editorial discusses a supplement of seven papers which prov
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Child Protection in Emergencies Facts and Figures
Compiled by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), this report presents facts and figures on child protection in emergencies. Data was collected for the 42 countries that have a Humanitarian Coordinator or that were on the Inter-Agency's Standing Comm
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Child Marriage and Adolescent Pregnancy in Mozambique: Causes and impact
This study measures the magnitude, trends over time, determinants and impacts of child marriage and adolescent marriage in Mozambique. It finds that 14.3% of girls between the ages of 20 and 24 were married before 15 years of age while 48.2% of girls in t
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Jozi Lights: How to protect children engaging in rural to urban migration
By the late 2030s, Africa is set to become a continent with more of its population living in urban than rural areas. Not only do population growth trends in Africa suggest that the sizes of those urban populations will be substantial (by 2100, almost half
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Review of Save the Children Norway's Support to Programmes for Child Protection System Strengthening: Evaluation
This report presents a review of the key results achieved through Save the Children Norway’s programming to strengthen the national child protection system in eight countries: Cambodia, Ethiopia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mozambique, Nepal, Nicara
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Violence Against Children is no Longer Tolerated: Preventing and responding to all forms of violence and promoting family-based care
Save the Children believes that children have a right to live a life without violence, exploitation, abuse and neglect. That violence against children is still commonplace in 2015 is unacceptable. Save the Children advocates for an ambitious breakthrough
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Literacy Breakthrough: Global Ripples from our Programs
As a global movement working to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, Save the Children’s literacy programs have grown in influence beyond their initial implementation sites. Around the world, Save the Children education teams are le
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Literacy Boost: Cross-country analysis report
Literacy Boost is Save the Children’s innovative, evidence-based program to support the development of reading skills in young children. Literacy Boost holistically pursues the goal of literacy by using assessments to identify gaps and measure improvement
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Regional Policy Review Report and Guidelines: Migration and Repatriation laws and Procedures for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe
The movement of unaccompanied children in Southern Africa remains a great concern, both for countries which children migrate from and those to which children migrate to. Save the Children is particularly concerned that there is an absence or poor implemen