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Families Torn Apart: Protecting and caring for children separated from their families by the conflict in North-east Nigeria
Children’s experiences are different from those of adults and we believe that children are well placed to articulate their own needs and desires. As such this assessment, which is a part of Save the Children’s Protecting Children in Conflict (PCiC) centen
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Storytelling to End Child Marriage in the Sahel Region: How survivors are acting as role models and holding decision-makers to account
This briefing was developed as part of a series on child marriage and accountability showcasing lessons-learned from Save the Children programming around the world. It details work with girls who have survived child marriage in the Sahel Region. The regio
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A Sensemaker Approach: Addressing key contextual and gender-related barriers to adolescent sexual and reproductive health rights and services in Northern Nigeria
This briefing was developed as part of a series on child marriage and accountability showcasing lessons-learned from Save the Children programming around the world. It details work with an interactive story collection app to provide insights into the dist
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Stunting, Wasting, and Education in Nigeria
Globally, the number of primary school children with nutritional deficiencies is high. This rapid review focuses on children with such deficiencies (namely stunting and wasting), and how it affects them throughout their primary education. Although the foc
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Children and Armed Conflict Special Update: August 2019
On August 2, 2019, the UN Security Council will hold its open debate on children and armed conflict (CAC) under Poland’s presidency. Poland will seek to highlight the 10-year anniversary of the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1882 (2009), as well
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Ending Legalised Violence Against Children by 2030: Progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment in Pathfinder countries
This report tracks the country-level progress that has been made to prohibit corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding Countries. It emphasizes the importance of ending corporal punishment to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.2. Furthermo
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Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2017
The 2017 Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict Report reveals an alarming increase in grave violations against children—21,000 verified occurences in the last year alone (compared to 15,500 in 2016). Children in conflict areas in the Central Af
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Better Parenting Curriculum Nigeria
The ability to parent well is not necessarily intuitive – an individual’s parenting style is influenced by aspects of his or her own history, personality and temperament, together with characteristics of the child, such as age or temperament. Class, cultu
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E-vouchers in Conflict Situations: Approaches and lessons learned from northeast Nigeria (August 2016-September 2017)
This case study presents a detailed description of the utilization of electronic vouchers (or e-vouchers) for the delivery of emergency relief. In these pages, we hope to provide a snapshot for humanitarian response peers on best practices, lessons learne
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Displaced and Host Communities Livelihoods and Food Security in Borno State, Nigeria: HEA Urban Baseline Report
The Household Economy Approach (HEA) was developed in the early 1990s by Save the Children UK in order to assist humanitarian practitioners in predicting short-term changes in a population’s access to food. It is a livelihoods-based framework for analysin
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Turning Education Around: Responding to the crisis in Borno state, Northeastern Nigeria
Many children in Borno State and Northeast Nigeria are risking not receiving an education. A lack of education, and subsequently a loss of job opportunities, has the potential of fueling additional cycles of violence and forced migration in the region. Do
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Basic Needs & Response Analysis Framework Report: Pilot assessment in and around informal IDPs settlements in Borno State, Nigeria, June 2017
This report, undertaken by Okular Analytics, Save the Children, the World Food Programme, and Plan Internation, assesses the basic needs and the required response for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) living in settlements in Borno State, Nigeria.