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Orphaned children
An orphan is a child whose parents are dead or have abandoned them permanently. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan
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Mobility- A Pastoral Livelihood Strategy: Rapid Assessment of Social Service Provision for Mobile Kraals in Karamoja
This joint EU-Save the Children Uganda report presents findings of a rapid assessment of social service provision for mobile cattle camps in Karamoja, Uganda (widely called 'manyattas' and 'kraals'), and is an attempt to measure available social services
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Taking evidence to impact: Making a difference for vulnerable children living in a world with HIV and AIDS
HIV-affected children continue to face enormous challenges, including the burden of care for sick relatives, trauma from the loss of parents, economic distress due to declining household incomes and high health costs. The purpose of this document is to in
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Beyond Orphanhood: Rethinking Vulnerability in Ethiopia
‘Orphans’ as a category of vulnerable children came to the fore in the context of the global AIDS crisis. Currently the notion of ‘Orphans and Vulnerable Children’ (or OVCs) dominates much of the child protection debates across sub-Saharan Africa. Data fr
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HIV and Social Protection Guidance Note [2011]
UNAIDS has identified social protection as a strategic priority in the global HIV response because of its importance in addressing the drivers of the epidemic as well as helping to mitigate its impacts on communities, households and individuals. This guid
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South Sudan: A post-independence agenda for action
2011 South Sudan has been scarred by conflict for more than 40 years. After a brutal war, the government of the Republic of South Sudan must address the key challenges facing children. The single best investment in South Sudan’s future is to address the d
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Case study. Supporting communities to care for their children in Azerbaijan
Case Study from Azerbaijan on how Save the Children, through its program, helped set up Child and Family Support Centres, which demonstrates how to provide children and their families with the services they need as an alternative to orphanages. The Commun
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Unprepared for peace. Education in northern Uganda in displacement and beyond
All children have a right to education, including displaced children affected by conflict. Education during and after displacement is a vital component of successful recovery, because it gives people the tools they need to rebuild their communities. Yet i
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Thari ya bana – Reflections on Children in Botswana 2011
The title, ‘Thari Ya Bana’, refers to the blanket that holds the infant safe behind the mother – and was chosen to symbolise the support that all children need, from infancy through to adolescence and the transition to adulthood, where the roles reverse a
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Are you on the right track? Six steps to measure the effects of your programme activities
Do you work for an organisation in a developing country which focuses on young people’s sexual behaviour? Do you want to go beyond counting numbers and actually measure change in life’s of young people? Then this Workbook might be of great use to you. The
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Scaling down. Reducing, reshaping and improving residential care around the world. Positive care choices:Working paper No. 1
This working paper summarizes the evidence base on residential care to promote better decision making among policy makers and child welfare practitioners, with priority given to ending residential care for children under three, and care in large scale fac
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Child maltreatment at home: Prevalence among orphans and vulnerable children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
This research briefly describes the prevalence of physical and verbal maltreatment among highly vulnerable children (HVC) in areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Aftrica, and identifies factors associated with maltreatment. Data were collected for the baseline p
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Family stress: Safeguarding young children’s care environment
When parents and caregivers lose the sense that they control their own lives, it becomes extremely difficult for them to create an environment that shields their children from insecurity. This edition of Early Childhood Matters (ECM) asks what are the mos