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1. 'Worse than the War': An ethnographic study of the impact of the Ebola crisis on life, sex, teenage pregnancy, and a community-driven intervention in rural Sierra Leone

   

   The Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic and crisis of 2014-2016 dealt a devastating blow to the citizens of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the full impact of which is still being unearthed. The purpose of this research is to illuminate both the wider i

   Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Kostelny, K. | Lamin, D. | Manyeh, M. | Ondoro, K. | Stark, L. | ...

2. Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Sierra Leone

   

   Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. High teenage pregnancy rate remains a perennial challenge for Sierra Leone’s 3.5 million child populati

   Publication year: 2016 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Lavalie, Andrew

3. Orphans and Ebola: Estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis

   

   The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date by far. Ebola Virus Disease causes disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other health cri

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): World Bank Group Author(s): Evans, David | Popova, Anna

4. Shamed and Blamed: Pregnant girls' rights at risk in Sierra Leone

   

   In April 2015, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Education, Science and Technology made official government policy an existing ban on visibly pregnant girls attending schools or taking exams. In addition to pregnancy testing practices that humiliate girls, thi

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Amnesty International

5. Ebola Significant Event Review: Summary of findings

   

   This document presents a summary of findings and conclusions from an instance when a nurse contracted the EVD virus from a Save the Children managed health compound in Sierra Leone. The intent being to investigate and address procedural failures that may

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children International

6. Child Rights Governance: Missed Taxation Opportunities to Improve Investment in Children in Africa: Case analysis of Kenya, Sierra Leone and Zambia

   

   Many governments cite a lack of sufficient resources as the reason for their inability to implement children’s rights according to their obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Yet, findings from this study indica

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children | TJN-A, Tax Justice Network - Africa

7. Fragile Process: The record of the millennium development goals in states affected by conflict, fragility, and crisis

   

   This report consists of several elements: First, it discusses the process of determining how countries are designated as being affected by conflict, fragility, or crisis, and the lack of agreement surrounding that process. It analyzes the cohort of confli

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children US | Center for American Progress Author(s): Norris, John | Dunning, Casey | Malknecht, Annie

8. Children's Ebola Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

   

   In mid-March 2015, child-centred agencies conducted a Children’s Ebola Recovery Assessment (CERA) in nine districts across Sierra Leone to create a mechanism for more than 1,100 boys and girls, to discuss issues of concern; assess the impact of the crisis

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children International | Plan International | ... Author(s): Risso-Gill, Isabelle | Finnegan, Leah

9. Bottom-up Approaches to Strengthening Child Protection Systems: Placing children, families, and communities at the center

   

   Efforts to strengthen national child protection systems have frequently taken a topdown approach of imposing formal, government-managed services. Such expert-driven approaches are often characterized by low use of formal services and the misalignment of t

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal Author(s): Wessells, Michael

10. Ebola: Responding for the long term

    

    The Ebola epidemic in West Africa represents an unprecedented global public health crisis. Since the first case in a remote area of Guinea in late 2013, the virus spread through Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea at an alarming rate. This publication review

    Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Save the Children International

11. Applying Community-Based Participatory Research to Better Understand and Improve Kinship Care Practices: Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone

    

    Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in Family and Community Health, this article examines the experiences of Save the Children in implementing a multi-country community-based participatory (CBPR) programme to increase the understanding of kinship c

    Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Family and Community Health Author(s): Chukwudozie, Oge | Feinstein, Clare | Jensen, Celina | O’Kane, Claire | ...

12. Cash Transfer Programmes in Sierra Leone

    

    The humanitarian community is increasingly using cash-based and cash transfer programs (CTP) in response to emergencies world-wide. Many questions arise in regards to the use of this relief method. Primarily, (1) how do practitioners know that the resourc

    Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): FSNN, Food Security and Nutrition Network Author(s): Simbwa, Andrew

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