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Protecting Children from Online Sexual Exploitation: A guide to action for religious leaders and communities
ECPAT is a network of 90 member organisations in 82 countries with one common mission: to end sexual exploitation of children. Together with Religions for Peace, ECPAT has produced this guide directed at religious leaders and communities for the protectio
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Empowering Children to Improve Services in School
Children can be empowered to drive the realization of their own rights. Save the Children believes that this can happen by identifying a single issue and working with children to help them develop a solution and to present that solution to the people who
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Health Boost Pilot in Shishuder Jonno Program
Save the Children has been implementing the Shishuder Jonno (SJ) programme in Meherpur district since 2008, through the School Health and Nutrition Programme (SHN) which aims to improve the health and educational status of school-age children. Acknowledgi
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ICT Use Improving Sanitation in School
Save the Children along with its partner organizations has implemented a project title “ICT and innovative partnership responding to well-known challenges for children in new ways in 30 secondary non-government high schools in Savar”. The project tested t
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Global Kids Online: Research synthesis 2015-2016
The many stakeholders responsible for children’s safe and positive use of the internet (governments, civil society and the private sector alike) have an important task to formulate policies that are inclusive, balanced and based on solid evidence. But at
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Information and Communication Technology for Child Protection Case Management in Emergencies: An overview of the existing evidence base
Organisations working to protect the health and wellbeing of children in emergencies are moving away from traditional paper-based systems towards more sophisticated and innovative digitally-based systems. Formative research was conducted to identify the s
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UNHCR Information Management Toolkit
Information Management (IM) has been identified as a core responsibility of UNHCR by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and is also endorsed as a special project for the organization throughout 2012–2014. The Emergency Information Manageme
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Using Tablets and Satellite-based Internet to Deliver Numeracy Education to Marginalized Children in a Developing Country
The intervention presented in this paper is premised on a theory of change that stipulates that learning outcomes in marginalized communities can be improved by a holistic just-in-time approach with a tight feedback loop that addresses children, parents a
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KOLOROB: A "Clamour" for Change in Urban Slums
Information Communication Technology (ICT) as a social accountability tool has been introduced in the Child Rights Governance programme in Bangladesh. KOLOROB is an android app that enables citizens and civil society organisations (CSOs) to directly link
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Children, ICT and Development: Capturing the potential, meeting the challenges
Information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones, computers, and the internet, are often seen to aid development processes. Yet recent studies have shown that privileged access of men over women and limited access in remote and rur
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A Case Study Exploring the Relationship Between Mobile Phone Acquisition and Use and Adolescent Girls in Freetown
This study seeks to provide a platform of information-rich, qualitative data exploring the sexual behaviours of teenage girls in relation to mobile phone acquisition and use. The study objective was to gain an understanding of these behaviours in the city
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Digitally Enhanced Child Protection: How new technology can prevent violence against children in the Global South
This paper investigates the potential for information and communication technologies (ICTs) to protect children from violence. The use of ICTs for this purpose has been explored in North America and Western Europe but there is less known about tools in lo