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Women and Girls Safe Spaces: Technical guidance note for COVID-19
Women's and girl's safe spaces provide access to life-saving services, psychosocial support, referrals and information. In many communities, these spaces are trusted structures where women's and girl's physical and emotional safety is respected. However,
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Equipping Adolescent Girls with Health, Life Skills and Financial Literacy Through Safe Spaces: Learning brief
Adolescent girls in Kenya face a number of risks and vulnerabilities that can affect their health, education status, and general well-being. The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) is currently delivering multi-sectoral interventions, targeting viol
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The Role of Child Helplines in Emergencies: Guidelines on operating a child helpline in emergency areas [Arabic]
With this guide, Child Helpline International (CHI) aims to assist child helplines in conflict zones and disaster-struck areas in order to help those most affected by emergencies. The guide, which is intended for CHI members and partners working on child
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The Role of Child Helplines in Emergencies: Guidelines on operating a child helpline in emergency areas
With this guide, Child Helpline International (CHI) aims to assist child helplines in conflict zones and disaster-struck areas in order to help those most affected by emergencies. The guide, which is intended for CHI members and partners working on child
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Evaluation of child-friendly spaces: Uganda Field Study Summary Report
World Vision International and Columbia University are conducting a series of structured evaluations of Child Friendly Space (CFS) interventions in various contexts, to document evidence of protective and restorative effectiveness and to identify good pra
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El rol de las líneas de asistencia para niñ@s en situaciones de emergencia: Directrices para el funcionamiento de una línea de asistencia para niñ@s en zonas de emergencia
With this guide, Child Helpline International (CHI) aims to assist child helplines in conflict zones and disaster-struck areas in order to help those most affected by emergencies. The guide, which is intended for CHI members and partners working on child
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Le Rôle des Lignes d’Assistance aux Enfants en Situation d'Urgence: Lignes directrices concernant la procédure opérationnelle d’une ligne d’assistance aux Enfants en zones de situation d'urgence
With this guide, Child Helpline International (CHI) aims to assist child helplines in conflict zones and disaster-struck areas in order to help those most affected by emergencies. The guide, which is intended for CHI members and partners working on child
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A practical handbook to organizing summer camps for children: Protection, Learning and Fun!
This document represents a simple guideline for planning and organizing a summer camp for vulnerable children in need of protection. These guidelines target Child Protection Units (CPUs), civil society, government agencies and community based organization
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Horn of Africa drought- One year on. July 2011- June 2012
In July 2011 the Horn of Africa region was affected by one of the worst droughts in decades with an estimated 12.4 million people reported to be in urgent need of food. Plan International mobilized its teams in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan to respond t
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Case Study: Violence free schools in Afghanistan
Although Afghanistan has enacted laws prohibiting corporal punishment in school, this is still a daily reality for many school students around the country. A vast majority of teachers continue to beat children and believe that physical punishment is an es
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Inuti ett Barnahus. En kvalitégranskning av 23 svenska verksamheter
Save the Children Sweden (SCS) has established and supported operations of “Barnahus”, or Advocacy Centres for Children, a model for receiving child victims of sexual abuse. Through these Advocacy Centres, SCS hopes to ensure that all child victims of vio
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Children and Disasters: Understanding Impact and Enabling Agency
From a child rights perspective disaster impacts affect not only a child's basic right to survival and development, but cut across their right to participate and for decisions to be made in their best interests. Child-centred approaches recognise the role