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Comprehensive School Safety: A global framework in support of The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector and The Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools
The CSS framework is intended to advance the goals of the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools and the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, and to promote school safety as a priority area of post-2015 framew
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Language & Comprehension Barriers in Greece’s Migration Crisis: A study on the multitude of languages and comprehension of material provided to refugees and migrants in Greece
A notable feature of the refugee crisis starting in 2015 has been the diversity of languages and ethnicities of refugees and migrants. Approximately 95 percent of the refugees and migrants who arrived in Greece in 2015 and 2016 came from seven countries:
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One Size Doesn't Fit All: Tailoring the international response to the national need following Vanuatu's cyclone Pam
In March 2015 Vanuatu was struck by one of the worst disasters ever experienced in the Pacific. Winds gusting up to 320 km per hour destroyed homes, infrastructure, crops and livestock and left more than half the population in need of emergency assistance
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Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2015
This report puts humanitarian financing in the spotlight. Published by Global Humanitarian Assistance, this report shows that poverty and vulnerability to crisis are intrinsically linked and that international humanitarian assistance continues to go predo
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Ebola Significant Event Review: Summary of findings
This document presents a summary of findings and conclusions from an instance when a nurse contracted the EVD virus from a Save the Children managed health compound in Sierra Leone. The intent being to investigate and address procedural failures that may
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Minimum Standards for Age and Disability Inclusion in Humanitarian Action
The humanitarian principle of impartiality, to provide assistance on the basis of need and without discrimination, requires agencies working in emergencies to reduce barriers so that people with disabilities and older people are not purposefully or inadve
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Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, 2012
Please note that there is a second edition of the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (2019) available here>> Children often make up more than 50% of the population affected by conflicts or disasters around the world. In humanita
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In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls and Disasters (Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2013)
Plan International has released the seventh report in its annual State of the World’s Girls series. ‘In Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls and Disasters'. This year's report looks at what happens to adolescent girls in disasters and why. Using original res
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Horn of Africa Two Years On Report: Response and Resilience in East Africa
In 2011, in the midst of the devastating Horn of Africa drought, Save the Children launched the largest ever multi-country humanitarian response covering three countries: Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, the most severely impacted by the drought. Thousands of
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UN World Food Programme, Protection in Practice: Food Assistance with Safety and Dignity, 2013
How can agencies like the World Food Programme (WFP) be sure that food assistance does not jeopardize the safety of the people they're trying to help? This is the question asked by the authors of a new book exploring the measures WFP has taken to keep peo
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Child Protection Assessment 2013: Syria
This report, issued by the Child Protection Working Group (CPWG), presents the main findings of an interagency child protection assessment for Syria, covering the period February–May 2013. Graphs within the report present the primary information gathered
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Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA): Philippines Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan is the most powerful storm ever recorded. It made landfall in the morning of 8 November in Guiuan, Eastern Samar province, causing extensive damage to life, housing, livelihoods and infrastructure across nine of the Philippine’s poorest pro