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Save the Children Commitments to Generation Equality: Ending child marriage and ensuring accountability to girls
More than 25 years since the Beijing Declaration first recognized the girl child as vital to the attainment of equality, sustainable development, and peace, girls worldwide, in all their diversity, continue to face rights abuses that stand in the way of a
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Teach us for What is Coming: The transition into adulthood of foreign unaccompanied minors in Europe: case studies from France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands
This report explores what it is like to be a young person alone seeking safety in Europe when turning 18. It provides information on the difficulties faced in this situation consisting of many shortcomings but also some promising practices. The report fou
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Growing Up Great! Shows Promise in Skills Development and Norms Shifting After One Year
After one year of implementation of the Growing Up GREAT! intervention- the results are in! This brief presents summary results of the evaluation of Growing Up GREAT!, a multi-level intervention designed to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive healt
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Consequences for Adolescents When They Become Pregnant, and Become Mothers
When an adolescent becomes pregnant, her life can change radically – especially if the pregnancy is unplanned. This rapid review presents information on consequences of adolescent pregnancy and adolescent motherhood in low-income countries, low- and middl
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Growing Up GREAT! Implementation Guide
Growing Up Great! is a scalable, multi-level intervention designed to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender equity among very young adolescents (VYA) and the important adults in their lives. It supports VYAs and their communities to ques
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Retrospective Impact Evaluation: Save the Children’s Sponsorship Programming in Woliso Impact Area, Ethiopia (2002-2010)
This is the final report of a retrospective impact evaluation conducted of Save the Children’s Sponsorship program in Woliso, Ethiopia (2002-2010). The aim of the evaluation was to: Assess the long-term intended and unintended, both positive and negative,
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"Am I Doing The Wrong Thing?" How Social Norms Influence Provider Provision of Contraceptive Services to Adolescents
This brief shares insights and findings from qualitative research conducted in Nairobi, Kenya using the Social Norms Exploration Tool (developed by the Passages Project) to explore root causes of provider bias in contraceptive services to adolescents by e
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Ensuring the Continuity of Voluntary Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care and Interventions for Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This document provides brief summary responses to key questions for health program managers and public health practitioners on adaptations required to ensure continuity of voluntary family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) care and interventions fo
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Photo book: Youth Empowerment in Northern Uganda
Our Youth Empowerment Programme, funded in partnership with Bulgari, supports rural youth in northern Uganda to access savings and financial services, get vocational skills, start small businesses, and advocate for change in their communities.
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How to Make a House a Safe Space for Children and Adolescents
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in quarantines in most countries around the world to reduce the risk of transmission. In order for us to live together healthily, our homes must be safe spaces where children and adolescents can have their basic needs me
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Joint Participatory Child Protection Assessment with Rohingya Adolescents
In a context with limited service provision for and limited understanding of the needs of adolescent refugee girls and boys, the aim of this assessment was to enerate detailed, qualitative data on the perspectives of adolescent Rohingya children in order
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Very Young Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health and Gender Program Design Guide
The Very Young Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health and Gender Program Design Guide provides simple and actionable guidance for programs with very young adolescents (VYA) across different contexts. A resource for nongovernmental organizations, governme