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Guidance for Alternative Care Provision during COVID-19
COVID-19 poses specific challenges and risks to children with regards to appropriate care both at the policy or system level and in work with individual children. This includes the potential temporary need for alternative care when caregivers become ill o
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Securing Government Commitment for a Nationwide Maternal and Child Cash Transfer in Myanmar
This document summarises Save the Children's involvement in supporting the Government of Myanmar and other partners to test and roll out a "First 1000 days" Maternal and Child Grant Programme that has proven to prevent chronic malnutrition. It also explai
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Building Caregivers’ Emotional, Parental and Social Support Skills to Prevent Violence Against Adolescent Girls: Findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Democratic Republic of Congo
Parenting programmes are increasingly popular for reducing children’s exposure to interpersonal violence in low/middle-income countries, but there is limited evidence on their effectiveness. The researchers investigated the incremental impact of adding a
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The Youth Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of school
The Youth Resilience Programme: Psychosocial support in and out of school has been developed by Save the Children as an independent continuation of the Children’s Resilience Programme. The programme is a nonclinical psychosocial and protection methodolo
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Save the Children Gender Equality Principles: Transforming inequalities, transforming lives
This document presents Save the Children’s policy for gender equality. It is not intended as a ‘how-to’, but rather to inform and highlight Save the Children’s commitments and guiding principles for engaging in equality work. It provides further informati
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Fathers Matter: Involved fathers change the lives of children
Save the Children knows that involving fathers will change the lives of children. As fathers become more involved in the care of children and domestic work, child health and development outcomes improve, violence against women and children reduce, and mat
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Intergenerational Relationships and the Life Course: Changing Relations between Children and Caregivers in Ethiopia. Young Lives Working Paper 99
Drawing on three rounds of survey and qualitative data collected by the Young Lives study in Ethiopia among children born in 1994-95 and their caregivers, this paper investigates intergenerational relationships by means of the life-course perspective. The
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Building Blocks Africa-wide Briefing Notes: Supporting older carers
This briefing note is part of a set of seven, comprising an overview and the following six topics: Education, social inclusion, health and nutrition, economic strengthening, psychosocial support, and supporting older carers. All these areas are important