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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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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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Report of the Mapping and Analysis of Ghana's Child Protection System
This mapping and assessment of the child protection system in Ghana is linked to a wider West and Central African regional initiative which has been supported financially and technically by a regional reference group composed by Plan International, Save t
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Child protection systems: Mapping and assessing Eastern and Southern Africa
This report outlines the global context that the Eastern and South Africa Regions (ESAR) is operating in with respect to child protection. It highlights the programming that has been undertaken to date on child protection systems, outlines lessons learned
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The Hidden Crisis: Education and Armed Conflict
The 2011 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on ‘The Hidden Crisis: Education and armed conflict’ clearly states that if the international community does not act now, there could be more children out of school in 2015 than there are today.Save the Children wel
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Vaccines For All. Help save 4 million children's lives by 2015
Nearly two million children still die from vaccine-preventable diseases each year. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) leads worldwide efforts to improve access to vaccines. It aims to immunise 243 million children by 2015 and save fo
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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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Healthier Returns: Making aid for healthcare more effective
Despite pledges to increase health spending, most governments and donors fall short. More effective use of existing health funding is also vital. Meanwhile the current economic climate of fiscal austerity is creating a focus on short-term results that thr
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Policy Brief. The Least Developed Countries: Biggest Challenges, Least Assistance?
Inadequate social services, weak governance, limited revenue bases and volatile economic growth — persistent economic and social challenges remain in many of the least developed countries (LDCs). International aid, on which LDCs are highly dependent, has
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System failure? Revisiting the problems of timely response to crises in the Horn of Africa
Humanitarian response in pastoral areas in the Horn of Africa has consistently been late, despite an enormous investment in early warning. Attempts to improve early response focus on improving the performance of one or two actors, or introducing new tools