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Bridging the Accountability Gap: New approaches to addressing violations against children in armed conflict
Across the globe, a dramatic gap exists between efforts and outcomes in realizing accountability for grave violations against children in situations of armed conflict. To address this gap many practical opportunities exist. This report by Conflict Dynamic
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Educating children with disabilities in Africa: Towards a policy of inclusion. Addis Ababa: The African child Policy forum.
A preliminary investigation, carried out by The African Child Policy Forum prior to this review, revealed that most African countries lack a proper law and policy strategy for the schooling of children with disabilities that complies with the requirements
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Responding to the Psychosocial and Mental Health Needs of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict-Affected Settings
Final report of the meeting on" Responding to the psychosocial and mental health needs of sexual violence survivors in conflict affected settings". In recognition of how sexual violence is a documented part of many armed conflicts and the need for action,
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Ten Good Practices in Essential Supplies Family Planning and Maternal Health
The worldwide trend toward smaller families—average family size has declined by half since 1950—is linked to advances in education and health care and increased opportunities for women. This great global success story can continue only if access to family
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Country Risk Reduction Profile: Disaster Risk Reduction in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, one in four children die before their fifth birthday, One in three children under five are moderately or severely underweight and the average life expectancy is just 42 years. Many children have to work to help their families earn enough
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Health Sector Service Budget Advocacy: A guide for civil society organisations
What is health budget advocacy? Why is it important? And how do you do it? This practical guide provides the answers. It starts with budget basics – how health budgets are funded, how the budget cycle works and who’s involved. And it goes on to provide gu
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Immunisation for all. No child left behind
One child in five misses out on basic vaccinations. Immunisation for All identifies country-level strategies to reach the unreached. And it identifies factors at the global level that will help to create a more conducive environment for countries to achie
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2009 NGO Sustainability Index for Sub-Saharan Africa- 1st Edition – September 2010
Whether they are responding to a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, generating public support for peace talks in Uganda, advocating for a law on access to information in Ghana, or addressing local communities' needs for improved housing or health care in Burun
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Applying Basic Child Protection Mainstreaming: Training for field staff in non-protection sectors. Facilitator's Guide
A field manual on basic and effective child protection methods meant to train humanitarian workers- whose focus is not specifically child protection- to help them think through how their areas of work can contribute to child protection, and give them the
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Misguided Kindness: Making the right decisions for children in emergencies
In every humanitarian crisis, concerned outsiders respond to tragedy with actions that take children away from their families and communities – often with unintended but damaging consequences. Again and again, girls and boys are ‘rescued’ out of affected
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In the wake of the war
This edition of "Barn", the membership magazine of Save the Children, presents an article by Nadja Debove, on the reintegration process of girls and boys, child soldiers and other separated children, back into their families and home communities in the wa
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Mapping and analysis of the child protection system in Sierra Leone
This mapping and assessment of the child protection system in Sierra Leone is part of a wider West and Central African regional initiative and has been supported financially and technically by a regional reference group composed by Plan International, Sav