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A FrameWorks Institute Communications Toolkit: Reframing early childhood development and learning
Reframing Early Childhood Development and Learning is a communications toolkit for building public support in Kenya for better child development policies and programmes. This collection of research, recommendations and sample communications is designed to
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Inter-European Social Workers’ Mobility within a Dynamic Social Work and Immigration Policy Context: A case study of England
Social workers are increasingly globally mobile, pursuing employment opportunities that combine professional and lifestyle projects. Social work skills and practice are embedded in cultural, linguistic and nation-specific legislative competencies. The cur
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NGOs and the Policy-making Process in Russia: The case of child welfare reform
This article explores the issue of the major reform of the child welfare sector that has been carried out in Russia in recent years. Focusing on deinstitutionalization and a child’s right to a family, this reform moves Russia in the direction of internati
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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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Governance and Policy Coordination: The case of birth registration in Ghana
Coordination is a significant issue for the study of governance. Policy and practice in even the most specialized area often have implications or involve relationships beyond the sector, let alone relationships between different units or tiers of administ
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Changing Children's Lives: Risks and Opportunities. Young Lives Policy Paper
Children’s development and well-being are significantly influenced by their family and community environment, with poor and marginalised children facing a heavier burden of risk. This paper summarises emerging findings from Young Lives to show how childre
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World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection, and the fight against child labour
This new report is the first in a series to be published annually by the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour. It brings together research on child labour and social protection, identifying policies that are designed to achieve
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Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 2013
The latest annual Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion Report by the New Policy Institute (NPI) gives a comprehensive picture of poverty in the UK. It features independent analysis of a range of indicators, including low income, unemployment, low pay,
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A Life Free From Hunger: Tackling child malnutrition
The world has enough food for everyone, but millions of children face a life sentence of hunger and malnutrition – the hidden reason so many die. A hidden malnutrition crisis is affecting one third of children in the developing world, impairing their deve
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Born Equal: How reducing inequality could give our children a better future
Inequality in developing countries is twice as high among children as among the general population, as this report reveals, with new quantitative analysis of 32 countries. Born Equal assesses the effects of inequality on child development. Drawing on eigh
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Ending the everyday emergency: Resilience and children in the Sahel
More than 1 million children face severe and life-threatening malnutrition in the Sahel region of West Africa in 2012. "Ending the Everyday Emergency" demonstrates that shortage of food deficit is only part of the crisis. Even more important is a ‘resilie
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Family first: Prioritising support to kinship carers, especially older carers
'Family first: prioritising support to kinship carers, especially older carers' is the fourth in EveryChild’s series of papers promoting positive care choices for children living without parental care. It is produced jointly with HelpAge International. Th