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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Somalia
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Somalia.
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Achieving Durable Solutions for Returnee Children: What do we know?
We are in the midst of a profound ‘returns-first’ shift in the global politics of child displacement. In response to soaring numbers of displaced worldwide –68.5 million, of which more than half are children – governments around the world are increasingl
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Accelerating Change towards Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Effects of community dialogues on FGM/C and child marriage
Women and girls face extreme forms of violations in Somalia; common among them is Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). National statistics estimates over 97% of girls aged 15 to 19 years have undergone FGM/C. To accelerate change towards reduction i
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Annual Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) 2018
In 2018, killing and maiming of children reached record high levels since the creation of the monitoring and reporting mechanism on children and armed conflict. More than 24 000 grave violations against children were recorded by the United Nations in 20 c
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Monitoring Child Well-being Using Child Researchers: Results from four pilot districts in Somalia
Save the Children Somalia started Community Child Researchers (CCR) initiative to create and develop a band of trained children researchers to fulfil the dual role- data from the children and by the children. It gives them the opportunity to clearly come
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Mainstreaming Protection in Education
According to the Protection Cluster, it is the responsibility of education actors to ensure that beneficiaries have safe and meaningful access to their services and mainstreaming protection into education programming is a way to achieve this. With this i
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Monitoring Child Protection Within Humanitarian Cash Programmes
This paper reviews different approaches to mainstreaming child protection concerns into humanitarian cash programming. It investigates the existing cash transfer monitoring practices in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Somalia and makes recommendations on how
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Lumped or Big: Effects of unconditional cash transfer fade out two years later in Urban Hiran, Somalia
Cash transfers have become a preferred approach to address household basic needs in both development and humanitarian programming in recent years. In Somalia, since the 2011 drought, unconditional cash transfers (UCT) have continued to increase as the int
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Clients Exit Interview of Community Health and Social Accountability Project (CHASP)
CHASP project is funded by SIDA and SDC builds upon SCI’s decentralized approach used in the Karkaar Region of Puntland as part of the DFID-funded CHANGE programme. The decentralized system for the delivery of health care and Nutrition services empowers d
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Essential Newborn Care Practice at Four Primary Health Facilities in Conflict-affected Areas of Bossaso, Somalia: a cross-sectional study
Newborn mortality is increasingly concentrated in contexts of conflict and political instability. However, there are limited guidelines and data on the availability and quality of newborn care in conflict settings. In 2016, an interagency collaboration de
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No Mother Wants her Child to Migrate: Vulnerability of children on the move in the Horn of Africa
This report by UNICEF Innocenti Office of Reseach presents the results of a qualitative study looking into the situation of children in the move on the Horn of Africa. Each month, children and young adults leave Somaliland seeking a better life abroad. Re
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Fighting for Breath in Somalia: A call to action to stop children dying from Pneumonia
Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year, more than 2,000 every day. It is a shocking demonstration of pervasive health inequities disproportionately