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Nepal Earthquake Response: Two-year report
On Saturday, April 25, 2015, a powerful earthquake of 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale hit Nepal. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in 80 years. Less than three weeks later, on Tuesday May 12, another earthquake measuring 7.3 in magnitude struck. S
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Adaptation and Response for Children Affected by Droughts and Disasters
Weather-related stresses associated with El Niño in 2015–2016 have severely impacted 60 million people. Governments across the globe are dealing with the consequences as they affect food security, livelihoods, and the well-being of their populations. Seve
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Rapid Needs Assessment Report (Ver.2) Mongolian Dzu 2016-2017
For the second year in a row (2016/2017 winter), Mongolian families are facing a severe winter, known as a dzud. Despite a fairly good summer, heavy early snow falls in October 2016 followed by plummeting temperatures towards the end of the year, left a l
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Education Disrupted: Disaster impacts on education in the Asia Pacific region in 2015
Each year disasters have a major impact on children, youth and education systems. In the disaster-prone region of the Asia Pacific, around 200 million children per year will have their lives severely disrupted by disasters in the coming decades.1 Every ch
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Two Years of Drought Response in Ethiopia
El Nino has caused the third successive rainfall failure in some areas of Ethiopia, and from the middle of 2015 onwards the country has since been in a race against time to meet the resulting food needs of 10.2 million people. This precarious situation ca
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Are we there yet? Children's views on Haiyan recovery and the road ahead
One year on from Typhoon Haiyan (local name Yolanda), children who survived the storm have looked back at the help they received and have given mixed reviews. In general, they are pleased with immediate actions taken by local government, and with the aid
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Save the Children’s role in Disaster Management in High and Middle-Income Countries
In recent years Save the Children has been involved in responding to disasters in a number of high-income countries, including Australia, Italy, Japan, Spain and the USA. These experiences prompted questions about whether we should continue to respond to
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Unaccounted For: A national report card on protecting children in disasters
68 million children in the United States are separated from their parents every workday. But 28 U.S states still don’t meet basic emergency planning standards for schools and child care. This "Report Card" evaluates America's performance in protecting chi
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Leaving No Child Behind: Annual report 2013
This annual report of Save the Children UK presents both the successes as well as those areas requiring more attention of their projects and programming for the year 2013. Both the UK domestic program as well as international programs are given focus. In
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Three Months On: Save the Children's Flood Relief and Recovery for Children in Pakistan
Pakistan’s monsoon rains began in July 2010, just as they have in years past. But this year, the torrential waters soon spilt over riverbeds, swept away villages and farms and cut a swath of destruction through an area the size of England. The waters engu
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Three Years on from the Tsunami: Rebuilding lives- children's road to recovery
The devastating Asia tsunami of December 26, 2004 was one of the biggest emergency responses in Save the Children’s history. Three years later, Save the Children continued to stand by hundreds of thousands of children and family members who survived the d
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Rebuilding Lives After the Tsunami: The children's road to recovery- Two years later
The devastating Asia tsunami of December 26, 2004, was one of the biggest emergency responses in Save the Children’s history. Two years later, Save the Children continued to stand by hundreds of thousands of children and family members who survived the di