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1. 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

2. 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 ...

3. 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

   Publication year: 2015 Publisher(s): CPWG, The Child Protection Working Group

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. 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

6. 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): The World Bank Group Author(s): Evans, David | Popova, Anna

7. 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

8. An Overview of the Community Driven Intervention to Reduce Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone

   

   Globally, the dominant approaches used by NGOs to establish or support community-based child protection mechanisms are characterized by relatively low levels of community ownership. This is problematic since community ownership is one of the primary deter

   Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Interagency Learning Initiative on Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and ... Author(s): Wessells, Mike | Lamin, David | Manyeh, Marie

9. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Surveys in Child Protection

   

   Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) Surveys in Child Protection is a step-by-step guide to the design and implementation of surveys for all staff working on child protection programmes that need quantitative data on knowledge, attitudes and practices

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Holman, Abigail

10. 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

11. 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

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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