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Children in emergencies
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Safeguarding in Emergencies Toolkit
Save the Children’s vital humanitarian work represents around 50% of all the work that we do and is often made up of a mix of life-saving and life-sustaining work. Because of this, humanitarian workers are placed in a position of trust by the populations
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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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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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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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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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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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Terremoto in Italia Centrale: Il nostro intervento
In emergency situations, children are always the most vulnerable- so right after the first earthquake that devastated Central Italy on August 24th, Save the Children Italy took immediate action. One year after the start of these seismic events in 2016, t
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Syria Regional Crisis Response: External dashboards- Updated Monthly
According to UNHCR, 5,682,058 people have now fled Syria. Children make up 45% of the refugee population, corresponding to an estimate of 2,556,926 refugee children. To date, we have reached 3,881,246 people in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, and
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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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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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Normes Minimales de l’Éducation en Situations d’Urgence: RDC Nord Kivu
The Minimum Standards in Education for North Kivu express a commitment to ensure that children and youth in the Province can have access to a relevant, safe, and quality education. Based on the INEE Minimum Standards, this document aims to effectively def
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Protection Assessment in Libya (March 2016)
The recent conflict in Libya resulted in intense fighting and triggered continuous displacement of population in major cities of the country. The PAL estimates that 70% of IDPs in Tripoli are in need (43% among them facing acute needs). In Benghazi, findi