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Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement
Around the world and across contexts, community engagement approaches support communities in taking their own action in addressing their most pressing issues. Community engagement is intrinsic to the human rights-based approach to development and humanita
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My Pocket Guide to CRC Reporting
A companion guide that has been developed for children and adolescents willing to tell the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child about how children’s rights are respected in their country. It should be used in conjuntion with "Together with
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View from the Lockdown: Children and youth's experience of COVID-19 in Lebanon
Save the Children carried out a survey in Lebanon to understand children and youth’s perspectives during the current COVID-19 lockdown and restrictions introduced in response to the outbreak. The research asked 137 children and youth of different national
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Children’s Voice 2020: Children’s views on the coronavirus spring
Stress, worry and loneliness are effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the lives of children and youth in Finland. Focus of the Children’s voice 2020 survey was on the experiences of 13–17 children and youth regarding the exceptional circumsta
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Words Into Action: Engaging children and youth in disaster risk reduction and resilience building
At the time of writing, children and youth under age 30 make up more than half the world’s population. They are the ones who will benefit most from reducing the risk and impact of disasters, curtailing climate chaos and achieving the global Sustainable De
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Listen To Us: Girls’ and boys’ gendered experiences of the conflict in eastern Ukraine
Since 2014, an armed conflict has been ongoing in eastern Ukraine. An estimated 5.2 million people are affected by the conflict. This study aims to help fill a gap in evidence concerning the gendered impact of the conflict on boys and girls of different a
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Children and Young People’s Voices in Times of COVID-19: Voices of children and young people in the United Kingdom (Milton Keynes) and World Vision International’s young leaders programme
This research is part of World Vision’s global campaign ‘It Takes A World to End Violence Against Children’ which seeks to see an end to all forms of violence against children everywhere. We gathered 110 children and young people online from 14 countries
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Our Research, Our Rights: Ending violence against children through the lens of child researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Romania and Sierra Leone
The aim of this child-led research project was to understand children's and young people’s perceptions about violence against children as described within the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) that seeks to end violence against children. The project was
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COVID-19 and Conflict Sensitivity
As organizations plan their response to the COVID-19 pandemic in fragile contexts it is essential to use a conflict-sensitive approach. Considering the conflict dynamics will reduce attacks on treatment centers, resistance to health guidelines, and avoid
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A Qualitative Assessment of Pathways to Youth Inclusion in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has one of the youngest populations in the world, with two-thirds of the population being under the age of 25. Learning the right skills and getting the right opportunities, young Afghans have the potential to be a source of social progress, i
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Children’s Voices in Times of COVID-19: Continued child activism in the face of personal challenges
This study was conducted during March and April 2020, with the purpose of gaining a better understanding of children and young people's thoughts on the coronavirus outbreak. It hopes to serve as a foundation for other child rights organizations who wish t
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National Child Participation Framework: Child friendly version
This is the child-friendly version of the 'National Child Participation Framework' that was developed to promote the meaningful participation of children in South Africa. This format can be used to enable children from as young as 3 years old to youth of