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Girls on the Move Research Series
The dream of a better future makes millions of girls leave their homes each year. Every girl carries a powerful story- why she migrates, the risks she faces, and the vision of a future she heads toward. It is important that girls' stories are heard. Girls
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GBV Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
The Gender-based Violence (GBV) Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit draws on the insights and experiences of international and local organizations implementing GBV programming in Turkey cross-border operations, as well as best practice GBV resources on the
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Implementing the Global Compact on Refugees for children: Examples of child-focused work
At the time of writing, children make up over half of the world's refugees. These children face severe protection issues, and their care and development needs often go unmet. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world, the situation for refugee
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Educational Statistics for Children under Temporary Protection in Turkey: Statistical report
As of October 2019, Turkey was home to nearly 4 million persons under temporary protection. Over 1,7 million were children. Despite investments from the authorities, host communities struggle to provide basic services to these persons. The needs are parti
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Family Strengthening: A collection of best practices from Eastern Europe
In December 2018, Save the Children (SC) commissioned the knowledge organization International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI) to do an assessment on best practices of Family Strengthening interventions in middle-income countries. The aim is to provi
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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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Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme Case Study: Mustafa
This document is a case study of a participant in the Child Protection in Emergencies Professional Development Programme. Mustafa Korkutata shares his experience from the development programme and how it has aided him in his role as a Psychologist for Con
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Psychosocial Wellbeing and Socio-Emotional Learning in the Syrian Refugee Response: Challenges and Opportunities
With the growing recognition of the importance of holistic and child focused programming, psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional learning (SEL) programmes are increasing in number in crisis-affected contexts, not least in the humanitarian res
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Promise to Practice: Following through on commitments to support the future of Syria and the region
The conflict in Syria has created the largest displacement crisis in well over a generation, possibly since the second world war. Six million people remain displaced internally, more than five million are registered as refugees in neighbouring countries a
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A Tide of Self-harm and Depression: The EU-Turkey Deal's devastating impact on child refugees and migrants
March 2017 marks one year since the start of the European Union (EU) Deal with Turkey. The Deal was introduced by the EU as a mechanism to reduce the number of “irregular” migrants and refugees arriving in Greece from Turkey, and continuing on to other pa
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Istanbul Labour Market Assessment, May 2017
Turkey is the largest host country offering safe haven to over 2.9 million refugees from Syria. Istanbul hosts an estimated 539,062 Syrians registered under Temporary Protection Regime. It is estimated that half of the urban refugees are young people who
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Protecting Syrian Children en Route to Europe: A study conducted in Syria, along transit routes & in hosting countries
In December 2015, Altai Consulting was commissioned by Save the Children’s Middle East and Eurasia Regional Office to conduct a research study on the protection of children fleeing from the Syria conflict and traveling to Europe. Fieldwork was conducted o