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The Economics of Early Response and Disaster Resilience: Lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia
In 2010 natural disasters affected more than 217 million people, killed more than 297,000 people and caused $123.9 billion in economic damages. The types, dimensions, and dynamics of humanitarian crises are further increasing, in some cases exponentially.
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Better aid modalities: are we risking real results?- Bibliography and literature reviews
This literature review examines six research topics which explore ways to improve the effectiveness of aid modalities. Drawing on the discussions and comments at ODI's 2011 meeting series on the future of budget support, six topics for research to improve
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One year on- Delivering on the promise of vaccines for all
On 13 June 2011, at a vaccine summit, hosted by the UK government, the world committed US$4.3 billion to immunise 250 million children and save 3.9 million lives. This was one of the most significant breakthroughs in the fight against child deaths in rece
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Making Education Aid more effective: Monitoring Exercise on Aid Effectiveness in the Education Sector
The GPE Report Making Education Aid More Effective: 2011 Monitoring Exercise on Aid Effectiveness in the Education Sector presents findings of a 2010/1011 survey monitoring exercise. It looks at how development actors work together and coordinate the use
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Good Practice Review: Cash transfer programming in emergencies
One of the more exciting innovations in the response to humanitarian crises of recent years has been the use of cash. Across the humanitarian sector there is growing recognition that cash and voucher transfers can support people affected by disasters in w
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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011. Budgeting for Children
This 2011 edition of The African Report on Child Wellbeing is the second in a series of reports published biennially by The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) as their contribution to putting Africa’s children on the public and political agenda, and to hol
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Civil Society Strengthening Workshop, Stockholm 2011
This report summarizes the results of the workshop on 'Civil Society Strengthening' hosted by Save the Children in Stockholm, 29 June – 1 July 2011, an event which brought together Save the Children participants from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the United
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Analysis of Results and Lessons Learned: 2012 IASC Gender Marker Report
To ensure women and girls, boys and men have equal access to and benefit from humanitarian assistance, their different needs must be understood and met. This is why the IASC instituted a “gender marker” which is a tool that codes, on a 0-2 scale, whether
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A need for greater focus and sustained funding. Social protection and child malnutrition in Afghanistan
Over the past decade Afghanistan has made tangible progress towards its social and development objectives and meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Infant and under-five mortality have gone down from 111 and 161 per thousand live births in 2008
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Invest in communities to stop AIDS: Don't stop now
As major scientific breakthroughs offer a real possibility of ending AIDS in a generation, there are signs that the international donor community could be taking its foot off the pedal right at the time when it is possible to accelerate progress. The timi
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Getting it Right for Children: A practitioner's guide to child rights programming
Adopting a child rights-based approach is the most effective way to bring about positive and lasting change for children. Drawing on Save the Children's experience around the world, this guide provides ideas and tools that will enable development and huma
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“Demystifying Child Centric Budget Analysis” Training of Trainers. Bangladesh, July 2010
This is the outcome of the Training of Trainers workshop on ‘Demystifying Child Centric Budget Analysis’, which was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21st-24th July 2010, within the framework of Save the Children's long standing commitment to the fulfilment of c