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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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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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Save the Children's Global COVID-19 Response: Situation Report no. 3, 1 June 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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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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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
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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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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
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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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Localization Across Contexts: Lessons learned from four case studies
This brief summarizes research on the localization of humanitarian action in several different contexts—Indonesia following the 2018 earthquake in Sulawesi, and the Horn of Africa, specifically humanitarian situations in Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan. T
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Save the Children's Global COVID-19 Response: Situation Report no. 2, 18 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
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Occupied Palestinian Territory COVID-19 Response Plan
On the 5th of March 2020, the Palestinian Prime Minister declared a state of emergency across the occupied Palestinian territories to contain the spread of COVID-19. Due to the current situation, it is expected that women and children might not receive es