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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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