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Keeping it Real: Virtual connection with SToP trial community
This article presents the continued, now virtual activities, of the SToP project to support healthy skin since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Indigenous Community Navigator Program: Fact sheet
The Indigenous Community Navigator Program employs and builds the capacity of local Indigenous Australians to improve life outcomes for their communities' children and young people.
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Stopp! Min Kropp! Second edition
Stopp! Min Kropp! ("Respect! My Body!") is a guidance document developed for adults to use when teaching children about their bodies, boundaries, and sexual abuse. Early on, children need to understand the value of their bodies and how to say or communica
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Forum för Förändring: Metodhandbok om Rädda Barnens tjej- och killforum
På Lika Villkor (Under the Same Conditions) is a program run by Save the Children Sweden working towards long-term sustainable change for children in Sweden's most economically distressed areas. The program aims to give children and youth greater influenc
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My Safety and Resilience: Girls pocket-guide
This Pocket-Guide reveals how UNICEF and its partners successfully designed, implemented and evaluated a girls-only empowerment program with the Roma communities as well as migrant and refugee populations in Serbia and in Bulgaria.
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Community-Based Outreach Outside of Camps
This briefing note investigates the different protection risks that face refugees who live outside of camps. These can include the threat of arbitrary arrest and detention, harassment, exploitation, discrimination, inadequate and overcrowded housing, as w
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Respect! My Body!: A handbook for grown-ups on how to talk with children about body boundaries and sexual abuse
Some parents feel confident dealing with more concrete issues like teaching their children the values of right and wrong- but what happens when you want to talk openly with young children about their own bodies, sexuality and boundaries? How do you teach
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Community Centres- UNHCR Community-Based Protection in Action
This briefing note presents UNHCR’s approach to community-based protection. In situations of forced displacement, the ties which hold a community together are often severely weakened or broken. Tensions can arise not only amongst different displaced commu
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Unlocking potential through education: Key achievements
Globally, great strides have been made towards achieving universal primary education since 2000. However, there are still 57 million children worldwide who are denied their right to education, half of whom live in conflict-affected or fragile states and a
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Scattered dreams, broken promises: An Assessment of the Links between Girls’ Empowerment and Gender-based Violence in the Kyaka II Refugee Settlement, Uganda
Assessment Report by The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) from its mission to Kyaka II Camp in Kegegwa, Uganda, aimed to explore the relationship between the empowerment of adolescent refugee girls and the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV). This i
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The Impact of Parental Aspirations on Private School Enrolment: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India. Working Paper No. 97
This paper presents an analysis of the role of parental aspirations in determining private school choice in Andhra Pradesh, using quantitative and qualitative data from the Young Lives cohort study over two rounds. Aspirations are measured using a range o
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Small scale, big impact: Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition. A briefing paper from the UK Hunger Alliance
This briefing paper is published by the Hunger Alliance, a coalition of charities, including Save the Children. The briefing highlights the huge nutritional benefits that can be brought about by supporting the millions of women farming small plots of land