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Children in emergencies
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Childhood Interrupted: Children's voices from the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
The Rohingya Refugee Crisis is a children's emergency. Over a five-month period, 655,500 people have fled widespread violence in Myanmar, 58 percent of which have been children. Since arriving in refugee camps in Bangladesh, many of these children have re
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Compromised Futures: East Africa's drought and conflict crisis' impact on children's wellbeing
Persistent drought and conflict has caused devastating food insecurity across East Africa with multiple, dire, and potentially long-term effects on children. Besides being an immediate threat to children's survival in terms of health and well-being, it ha
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Education Capacity Self-Assessment: Transforming the Education Humanitarian Response of the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
The immense Rohingya refugee flow into Cox Bazar, Bangladesh, following widespread destruction and violence in Myanmar, has brought with it an array of complex needs. As part of the immediate emergency response, humanitarian actors have provided learning
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Recomendaciones para Apoyar la Contención de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes Después de la Emergencia en la Esculea y la Familia
These infographics contain tips for caretakers on how to contain children during emergencies in school or within the family, such as during an eathquake.
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Typhoon Tembin Response: January 2018
On the 22nd of December, 2017, Tropical Storm Tembin hit Davao Oriental in the early hours of the morning, and then made it onto Palawan on the 23rd of December. Although the typhoon is not too severe, the landslides, flooding, and flash floods caused by
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Childhood Under Attack: The staggering impact of South Sudan's crisis on children
Children, who account for nearly half of South Sudan's population of 11 million, bear the highest cost of violence. Growing up in an environment of conflict and economic crisis, children face death, harm, starvation, disease, military recruitment, displac
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Syria Regional Crisis Response: External dashboards- Updated Monthly
According to UNHCR, 5,609,690 people have now fled Syria. Children make up 45% of the refugee population, corresponding to an estimate of 2,524,360 refugee children. To date, we have reached 3,504,341 people in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and
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Learning and Well-Being in Emergencies: Resource Kit
The ‘Learning & Wellbeing in Emergencies’ toolkit (LWiE) focuses on building and measuring early foundational literacy skills, alongside social emotional learning, in emergency contexts with a particular focus on community engagement as a key support for
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Uncertain Futures: The impact of displacement on Syrian refugee and Iraqi internally displaced youth in Iraq
As the conflict in Syria edges towards its sixth year and world leaders grapple with its catastrophic human consequences, much attention has focussed on the conflict itself as the driver of mass migration to Europe. In this report, we seek to highlight a
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Struggling to Survive: Stories from Yemen's collapsing health system
Every ten minutes, one Yemeni child dies from preventable causes like diarrhea, malnutrition, and respiratory tract infection. Yemen's children are at the heart of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Ten million children are in urgent need of assistan
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El Niño-induced Drought in Cambodia: Rapid assessment report
Cambodia is a country prone to floods and droughts, but 2016 has proven to be the hottest year on record. The ongoing 2015 – 2016 El Niño event is causing severe drought in much of the country. The Prime Minister, Hun Sen, has called this drought the wors
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Influencing in Emergencies: A joint action after action review
Nearly two years since Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines, advocacy teams from ActionAid, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Save the Children and World Vision take a step back to evaluate their respective advocacy engagements. This report puts together w