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Child poverty
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Child Sensitive Graduation Programming Design: A guidance brief for country offices
Graduation programmes consist of targeting poor households with a combination of layered and sequenced interventions, often over a defined period of time, in order to facilitate the achievement of strengthened and sustainable livelihoods. To ‘graduate’, a
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Barnfattigdom i Sverige: Årsrapport 2018
Save the Children Sweden has since 2002 studied the welfare of Children in Sweden. This is the 14th report of its kind and a sequel to the prior studies. The report covers development in child poverty in Sweden up until 2016. In the new millennium, there
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The Many Faces of Exclusion: End of Childhood Report 2018
1.2 billion children are threatened by conflict, widespread poverty or discrimination against girls. In commemoration of International Children’s Day, Save the Children releases its second annual End of Childhood Index, taking a hard look at the events th
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Still Left Behind? Tracking children’s progress against the pledge to Leave No One Behind
The pledge to Leave No One Behind within the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda has the potential to revolutionize how the world defines and strives for progress, putting the world’s most deprived and marginalised children first. One of its key cha
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Children's Voice 2018
The Children’s Voice survey is a survey that Save the Children regularly composes on themes related to children’s daily life. The objective of the survey is to lift up the voices and experiences of children and young people so that they would be considere
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Social Protection and Child Malnutrition in Pakistan: A challenging context
Pakistan faces immense challenges when it comes to tackling malnutrition. Although the proportion of underweight children has remained constant over the past ten years or so, the proportion of stunted children has worsened. Levels of malnutrition among un
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Stolen Childhoods: End of childhood report 2017
In commemoration of International Children’s Day, Save the Children is launching a unique index exploring the major reasons why childhood comes to an early end. The End of Childhood Index focuses on a set of life-changing events that signal the disruption
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Child Poverty Humanitarian Strategic Framework
Since its inception in 2014, the Child Poverty Global Theme has been developing a strategic plan which aims at strengthening the economic dimension of Save the Children's programming across our breakthroughs of survival, learning, and protection. The appl
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A World Free from Child Poverty: A guide to the tasks to achieve the vision
Published by UNICEF and the Coalition to End Global Poverty, of which Save the Children is a co-lead, this guide harnesses the combined knowledge and experience of the participating NGOs and other organizations to support national processes to achieve Sus
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Ending Hunger and Malnutrition: The role of public-private partnerships
Food security and adequate nutrition are a matter of life or death. They are integral to a wide range of development goals, as preconditions for sustainable, social, economic and human development. However, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organis
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Short Changed: The human and economic cost of child undernutrition in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is facing a nutrition crisis. Alarmingly, almost one in two children in PNG have stunted growth due to chronic malnutrition. PNG has the fourth highest child stunting rate in the world – a rate that is more than double the global av
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Child Poverty and Adolescent Transitions
Adolescence is a time of vulnerability, but also a great window of opportunity. Governments should seize this time in order to address, and eventually eliminate, child poverty and move closer to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Addressing chil