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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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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: 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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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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Estudio: Barreras en el acceso al deporte, a través del área de educación física, de la niñez con discapacidad
Access to sport for children with special needs remains a much neglected issue. Disabled children often have limited access to recreational activities and sports participation within the school system. This recent study by Save the Children is meant to be
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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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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
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Child and youth participation in Finland: A Council of Europe Policy Review
The report “Child and youth participation in Finland – A Council of Europe policy review” provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation in Finland of the right of children to participate in decisions affecting them. Taking as a starting point a