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Save the Children’s Global Covid-19 Response: Q3 Monitoring Report
The COVID-19 Pandemic poses immediate and long-lasting risks to the rights of children including the disruption of access to education, the potential for reduced access to primary and secondary health services, and increased protection risks. Save the Chi
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Still Unprotected: Humanitarian funding for Child Protection
Children have a fundamental right to be protected, wherever they live. Children affected by humanitarian crises are among the most vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect and most in need of protection, yet there is limited commitment to f
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Save the Children's Global Response Plan to COVID-19: Protecting a generation of children
Unprecedented in scale, COVID-19 is a global crisis that poses immediate threats to children’s rights to survival, development, learning, protection, and to be heard. Unless mitigated, the pandemic risks undermining progress made on achieving the Sustaina
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Localised Response to COVID-19 Global Pandemic A4EP Position Paper
The COVID-19 pandemic will not only be a public health crisis, but also an economic and social crisis in countries all across the world. It may also contribute to an increase in ethnic, gender-based, and domestic violence. International mobilization is re
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Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement
Around the world and across contexts, community engagement approaches support communities in taking their own action in addressing their most pressing issues. Community engagement is intrinsic to the human rights-based approach to development and humanita
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Localisation Best Practice: Increasing the effectiveness of global humanitarian response
The World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 saw the launch of the Grand Bargain, an agreement between major donors and humanitarian organizations to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of humanitarian action. One of the commitments to achieve this is t
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Save the Children's Global COVID-19 Response: Situation Report no. 6, 13 July 2020
The COVID-19 Pandemic poses immediate and long-lasting risks to the rights of children including the disruption of access to education, the potential for reduced access to primary and secondary health services, and increased protection risks. Save the Chi
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Guidance Note on Partnership Practices for Localisation
Based on the perspectives of over 400 humanitarian agencies, this guidance note includes recommendations for partnership practices for localization of humanitarian action. The recommendations can be used for project and financial management, capacity stre
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Localisation Performance Measurement Framework
The first World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 outlined the Grand Bargain Commitments to localization of humanitarian action, which have transformative potential for the humanitarian sector. However, there is currently no system in place that can be used for
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Risk and Humanitarian Culture: An ICVA briefing paper
The presence of risk will always be a central part of the humanitarian space. While risk awareness often is clearly embedded in humanitarian work, risk management is not. In turn, the responsibility to people in need is clear in the humanitarian culture,
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Case Study: When donors think outside the box
Violet is a Syrian organization, which started out in 2011 through a network of young volunteers who fett they had to do something for their communities which were suffering as a result of the conflict in Syria. They started out by providing essential aid
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Save the Children's Global COVID-19 Response: Situation Report no. 1, May 2020
The COVID-19 Pandemic poses immediate and long-lasting risks to the rights of children including the disruption of access to education, the potential for reduced access to primary and secondary health services, and increased protection risks. Save the Chi