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Unlocking progress in fragile states. Optimising high-impact maternal and child survival interventions
Children born in fragile states are more likely to be malnourished, uneducated and abused. This report attempts to capture the positive interventions that are beginning to show impact even in these challenging contexts. Stopping preventable deaths does no
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Children and Truth Commissions
Children are often brutally targeted in modern warfare. Accountability mechanisms have begun to focus on crimes committed against children during armed conflict and to involve children proactively, including through testimony that bears witness to their e
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Engaging on health financing- A guide
Many governments in low-income countries and fragile environments are currently exploring strategies to improve access to essential healthcare. This guide responds to requests from staff working in low-income and fragile environments to support their poli
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Preventing the Preventable: An analysis of CRC concluding observations on the right to survival
How the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child treats newborn and child survival in eleven countries with high levels of child mortality: Bangladesh, China, DRC, Ethiopia, India, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda. Although newbo
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Children and Transitional Justice: Truth-telling, accountability and reconciliation
The volume analyzes key issues from the transitional justice agenda through a child rights lens. On the basis of research, the authors begin to formulate responses to a number of crucial questions and debates: how to end impunity for crimes against childr
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The Economic Impact of School Violence: A Report for Plan International
The research, carried out by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), reveals the enormous economic and social cost of violence in schools across the world. Focused on three types of violence in schools – corporal punishment, bullying and sexual violence
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Sealing the Past, Facing the Future: An evaluation of a program to support the reintegration of girls and young women formerly associated with armed groups and forces in Sierra Leone
This paper reports on an evaluation of a program in Sierra Leone that sought to support the community reintegration of young women and girls formerly associated with armed groups and forces. In the absence of baseline data, we used locally-derived indicat
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Speaking Out, Being Heard. Experiences of child participation and accountability to children from around the world
This publication brings together theoretical approaches and practical experiences from Save the Children’s extensive work to support children’s participation and promote greater accountability to children. Its broad aim is to facilitate learning and promo
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Youth Development, Reintegration, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation in Post-conflict West Africa: A framework for Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire
Between 1990 and 2006 alone there have been several conflicts (intra and inter) across Africa. In Rwanda, DR Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea, Somalia, Uganda, Angola; Africa and Africans have been victims time and time again to these c
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A complementary report by Non-governmental organizations to the State Party Report of Sierra Leone (2005) on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
This report provides supplementary information on Sierra Leone’s second report on the implementation of the UNCRC. The Coalition expresses its commitment to assist the government in addressing children’s rights relating to education, health and children i
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Can the powerful protect? How the UN Security Council needs to shape up to protect children
This study, published by the International Save the Children Alliance, examines how well Security Council reports reflect the problems facing children affected by conflict. It focuses on the Security Council because it's the only global decision-making fo
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A mapping of national child protection systems
This summary report provides a concise overview of the current status of national child protection systems in countries where Save the Children is operating, and has been written as an input to the Global Workshop in Costa Rica on ‘Right Based National Ch