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Child Participation, Influence and Accountability in Humanitarian Response: Landscape review
In 2016 the Grand Bargain was launched at the World Humanitarian Summit, calling for a ‘participation revolution’ to transform practices around community engagement. Given the changing external landscape, Save the Children decided to commission a review i
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A Right to be Heard: Qualitative synthesis from children’s consultations
As an organisation born in response to the plight of children affected by war, we have been strengthening our efforts to protect children in countries in conflict. This report synthesises numerous pieces of research, assessments and baseline surveys under
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Child Participation and Accountability in Save the Children Colombia’s Programming: A research collaboration between the Refugee Law Initiative and Save the Children
Participation of affected populations and participatory methodologies have emerged as a dominant trend in the humanitarian accountability discourse of a broad variety of aid organisations and their donors. This study explores how Save the Children Colombi
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Take Us Seriously! Engaging Children with Disabilities in Decisions Affecting their Lives
Despite one of the 9 basic requirements for meaningful and ethical child participation being that it is inclusive, children with disabilities often face barriers to participation in decision making. This might be because of negative attitudes of staff or
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Monitoring Child Well-being Using Child Researchers: Results from four pilot districts in Somalia
Save the Children Somalia started Community Child Researchers (CCR) initiative to create and develop a band of trained children researchers to fulfil the dual role- data from the children and by the children. It gives them the opportunity to clearly come
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Handbook for Children Participating in the Pre-Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
This handbook has been developed by Child Rights Connect to assist those who accompany and support children to submit information to the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its reporting cycle. It contains practical information about how child
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Diritti e Fantasia: Favole Fuoriclasse
"Rights and Fantasy" is a publication that collects, in the form of stories and drawings, some reflections of the students of Fuoriclasse Aprilia on the rights of children and adolescents.
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Partecipare si può! Strumenti e buone pratiche di partecipazione e ascolto dei minori migranti, volume 2
This is the second volume of the "Participation is possible" manual that presents tools and good practices to ensure that migrant children arriving in Italy are heard and are offered the chance to participate within society.
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Ad Alta Voce: Sei modi per promuovere i diritti dentro e fuori la scuola
This publication offers some suggestions for carrying out peer education events on the rights of children and adolescents. The proposed activities can be replicated at school and in non-formal educational contexts.
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Voicing the Needs and Priorities of Children Living in Conflict in the Democratic Republic Of Congo
Between 2017 and 2018, Save the Children organized children’s consultations in five provinces: Lomami, Kasai Oriental, Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu. In each province, seeking to hear from children of different sexes and age groups in areas affected by
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Improving Learning Environments Together in Emergencies (ILET) Package
ILET is a package using assessments for improving learning environments in humanitarian contexts through community participation. Operationalizing Save the Children’s Quality Learning Framework in emergencies, ILET empowers communities to improve the qual
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The Tatu Tano Child-led Organisation: Building child capacity and protective relationships through a child-led organisation, north-western Tanzania (Case study)
This case study tells the story of a child-led organisation called Tatu Tano which was started over ten years ago by a small NGO called Kwa Wazee (Kiswahili for older people). Kwa Wazee works with grandparents in a remote rural area of Tanzania. The area