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Play and recreation
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TeamUp: Support for Refugee Children Worldwide
The TeamUp playbook is a compilation of 14 games to be used in a home environment together. It is designed for children ages 6-18 but can be enjoyed by people of all ages. It offers a simple, safe, and fun way to play and exercise in small groups. With Te
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Lessons Learned from the Outcomes and Delivery of Girls’ Clubs in Educational Programmes
This review provides a rapid review of the evidence on the outcomes and delivery of girls’ clubs in educational programmes. It found some evidence of girls’ clubs specific programmes in school settings having positive impacts on educational and life skill
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Final Report on Children’s Play Right Situation in Dhaka City
Save the Children is implementing the ‘Good Cause Campaign’ project (GCC) with the support of IKEA Foundation and technical support of Save the Children Sweden at Dhaka, Rajshahi and Satkhira district where one of the main focus is – promotion of children
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I Play, I Learn and I'm Safe: Case Studies
I Play, I Learn and I’m Safe is a Save the Children programme for preventing unsafe migration of children in Ethiopia and Bangladesh by promoting protection, education and play for children on the move. Visit the campaign website to read individual case s
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Fun, Safe, Inclusive: A half-day training module on facilitation skills
This manual has been specifically developed by Save the Children in response to requests from the field to provide a short training module on facilitating programmes for children. It builds on best practice and learning gained by Save the Children during
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I Play, I Learn and I'm Safe: Project brief
I Play, I Learn and I’m Safe is a Save the Children programme for preventing unsafe migration of children in Ethiopia and Bangladesh by promoting protection, education and play for children on the move. This one-pager briefly presents the programme proces
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The Case for Play
Playground Ideas create instructional guides on playground building and play advocacy which can be used all over the world. The core of the organization is to create playground designs that anyone can make, in order to empower communities around the world
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Traditional Games for Child Protection- Terre des hommes
A handbook of games developed out of experience gained by organisers and trainers of the Terre des hommes MOVE project in Romania, Moldavia and Albania. This booklet is aimed to strengthen youngsters' life skills of cooperation, responsibility, flexibilit
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La primera infancia en perspectiva: Cultura y aprendizaje
Ensuring "the development of the child... to the maximum extent possible" is part of every child’s rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. But to what extent is "development" a cultural process that varies between societies, or a natura
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Sport & Development- A summary of SAD's experiences and good practices
This report provides an overview of four of its Sport & Development pilot projects that examine the use of sport as a tool for reaching development and humanitarian objectives. This report aims to uncover the development potential of sport in three post-c
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Move 4 New Horizons. Playful Teaching Manual
“Move 4 New Horizons” is an educational programme for disadvantaged out-of-school children in the Dang district in the Mid-Western region of Nepal. School drop out and repetition rates are the highest in the first two years at primary school level in Nepa
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Children's right to play. An examination of the importance of play in the lives of children worldwide
In this working paper, Wendy Russell and Stuart Lester of the UK's University of Gloucestershire discuss why play is fundamental to the health and well-being of children. They argue that both state signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Right