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Adaptation and Response for Children Affected by Droughts and Disasters
Weather-related stresses associated with El Niño in 2015–2016 have severely impacted 60 million people. Governments across the globe are dealing with the consequences as they affect food security, livelihoods, and the well-being of their populations. Seve
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Evaluation of the Local to Global Programme 2013-15
This evaluation of Save the Children Sweden’s Sida-funded “Local to Global” (LtoG) programme was undertaken to examine the extent to which the LtoG approach of doing simultaneous advocacy work at local, national and global levels has contributed to achiev
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Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Zambia
Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. Zambia’s positive economic growth, at around 5% to 6% over the last 10 years, has been driven by increa
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Malnutrition in Zambia: Harnessing social protection for the most vulnerable
Malnutrition prevents millions of Zambia’s children from reaching their potential. The rates of malnutrition – among the highest in the world – are reducing the country’s chances of achieving its aspiration to be a prosperous upper-middle-income country b
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Child Rights Governance: Missed Taxation Opportunities to Improve Investment in Children in Africa: Case analysis of Kenya, Sierra Leone and Zambia
Many governments cite a lack of sufficient resources as the reason for their inability to implement children’s rights according to their obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Yet, findings from this study indica
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Prevent and Protect: Linking the HIV and child protection response to keep children safe, healthy & resilient
In 2013 the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS completed an analysis of how child protection systems and services affect HIV and AIDS, and vice versa, and provided recommendations on how they could work together to improve each oth
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Universal Periodic Review: Successful examples of child rights advocacy
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is an inter-governmental human rights review within the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The UPR assesses the extent to which governments are meeting their obligations to protect, respect and fulfil human rights, includ
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Literacy Boost Zambia: Baseline Report 2014
This report examines the results of a learner background survey and reading assessment conducted in June 2013 as part of a Save the Children sponsorship baseline data collection. The report analyzes data from a survey and reading assessment covering 383 g
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Are Cash Transfers a Silver Bullet? Evidence from the Zambian Child Grant
How effective can cash transfers be in combating poverty and social inequality in developing countries? This study is one of the first to demonstrate both protective and productive impacts of a national unconditional cash transfer program. The Zambian Gov
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Can a Community Health Worker and a Trained Traditional Birth Attendant Work as a Team to Deliver Child Health Interventions in Rural Zambia?
The first of its kind, this study explores whether teaming can be a successful approach at the community level in developing countries. Teams of community health workers and traditional birth attendants were trained and studied over a period of two years.
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Zambia: Idrott i kampen mot Aids
For three years, Save the Children Sweden and Plan International have worked together on a project in Chibombo, Zambia, with support from the Swedish Postcode Lottery. The project works to educate youth and children about HIV AIDS, its spread, and how to
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Prevention and Management of Neonatal Hypothermia in Rural Zambia
As little is known about practices related to newborn hypothermia in rural Africa, this study sought to characterize relevant practices, attitudes, and beliefs in rural Zambia. By building an understanding of community-based practices on hypothermia preve