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Out of the shadows: Child marriage and slavery
This report, prepared by Anti-Slavery International, sheds light on the striking links between slavery and slavery-like practices and many child marriages. It reviews the literature available on child marriage to show that a potentially high proportion of
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Kinship Care Album: Researching Kinship Care in West and Central Africa
This Album on Kinship Care is a compilation of albums from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Niger, Nigeria and Sierra Leone made by children and young people who were part of a Kinship Care research initiative undertaken by Save the Children in Wes
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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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A Case Study Exploring the Relationship Between Mobile Phone Acquisition and Use and Adolescent Girls in Freetown
This study seeks to provide a platform of information-rich, qualitative data exploring the sexual behaviours of teenage girls in relation to mobile phone acquisition and use. The study objective was to gain an understanding of these behaviours in the city
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Case studies: Child participatioin and Accountability 2012
This is a set of ten case studies demonstrating Save the Children’s practice in Accountability and Child Participation from across the globe. They are intended for use by Save the Children staff both at Head Office and in Country Programmes and are intend
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Financing for Sierra Leone’s Future: Health and Sanitation Budget Tracking 2012
In Sierra Leone, Save the Children, in partnership with the Budget Advocacy Network, Oxfam and World Vision International, has undertaken a nationwide health and sanitation budget-tracking exercise. Together they looked at what investments are being made
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Internal Displacement in West Africa: A Snapshot
This paper offers an overview of internal displacement in the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) region—which consists of 15 countries—including displacement resulting from conflict, generalized violence and human rights violations; natura
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Lessons Learned: Conducting research on community-based child protection mechanisms
The Inter-Agency Learning Initiative launched a learning program in West Africa and East Africa, in Sierra Leone and Kenya, respectively. The initiative used rapid ethnography- an empirically-oriented, bottom-up- approach to learn about community based ch
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Progress in Child Well-being: Building on what works
This report shows that children’s well-being has improved dramatically thanks to increased political will globally, supportive policies and well-focused programmes and resources, but that the gains will be sustained only if the most disadvantaged and vuln
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“YARO NA KOWA NE” Children belong to everyone. Save the Children Regional Kinship Care Research
Children without appropriate care (CwAC) is a focus area for Save the Children’s child protection work for the period 2010-2015. The goal is that by 2015, 4.6 million children without appropriate care, and their families, including children affected by HI
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Community-Based Reintegration of War-Affected Young Mothers: Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Liberia, Sierra Leone & Northern Uganda
During the past decade, the international community has come to recognize that girls participate in armed groups and forces in substantial numbers. The majority of girls associated with armed forces or armed groups (CAAFAG) do not go through formal or inf
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Handbook on participatory methods for community-based projects: A Guide for programmers and implementers based on the participatory action research project with young mothers and their children in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Uganda
A Handbook on Participatory Methods for Community-Based Projects. This has been designed to help integrate more participatory methods into programming for vulnerable populations, especially war affected young adults and children. In Liberia, Sierra Leone