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Humanitarian and emergency response
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Reimagining Girls’ Education: Solutions to keep girls learning in emergencies
Girls in emergencies are facing several challenges related to education, such as disadvantages at all stages of education, struggle to learn, and higher risk of being out-of-school. This material provides an empirical overview on how to support the learni
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Detrimental Impacts: How counter-terror measures impede humanitarian action
Humanitarian organizations navigate a complex web of laws, policies, funding requirements, and enforcement mechanisms. Whether unintended or not, global counter-terror (C.T.) efforts create real barriers and consequences for humanitarian action. These ran
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Humanitarian Learners and Localised Capacity Strengthening
This research investigates the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the access and use of online learning in the humanitarian sector, and the effect of capacity strengthening in the context of localisation in the sector.
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Save the Children's Humanitarian Plan 2021: Children cannot wait
On 9 December 2020, Save the Children launched a global humanitarian plan to present a global picture of children’s needs and an overview of a response plan to reach 15.7 million people including 9.4 million children in 2021. At a global level, Save the
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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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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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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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L'Impact de la COVID-19 et Ebola chez les Enfants en Republique Democratique du Congo
L’étude sur l’impact de la Covid-19 et la maladie à virus Ebola (MVE) chez les enfants en République Démocratique du Congo a été réalisée au mois d’août 2020 dans les zones d’intervention de Save the Children International (SCI). Les provinces concernées
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Interim Guidance: Scaling-up COVID-19 outbreak readiness and response operations in humanitarian situations including camps and camp-like settings
People affected by conflict or crisis, and particularly those who live in camps or camp-like settings, are often faced with specific vulnerabilities and challenges. For example, they are often neglected, stigmatized and may face difficulties in accessing
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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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Reinforce, Reinforce, Reinforce: Localization in the COVID-19 global humanitarian response
The International Council of Voluntary Agencies has developed this note to support dialogue on strengthening principled and effective humanitarian action by non-governmental organizations during the COVID-19 response, with a focus on reinforcing local and