Visible Leadership for Children: Save the Children International Annual Review 2011

2011 was the second year of Save the Children three-year transition from 29 separate organisations to a single, global movement for children. We are changing the way we work, to be more efficient and aligned, a better partner and a stronger advocate for children. We overcame many challenges in the year and overall our plans are on track. By working together, we are already achieving more for children.

Last year we responded to the highest number of emergencies ever – from providing nutrition to hundreds of thousands of children in drought-prone East Africa, to rapidly setting up temporary schools in flooded Cambodia. In Afghanistan, local women newly trained as community health workers showed me how they save the lives of mothers and babies with astonishingly simple treatment and advice. We have taken these local innovations to scale wherever possible and shared learning between countries. Working with others, this helped halve child mortality in Afghanistan in less than a decade.

Providing evidence of what works, together with our growing worldwide supporter base, enables us to offer visible leadership for children at a global level. Read about our work to influence change for children on a global level and more in our 2011 Annual Report.