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COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement
This publication from the Regional Risk Communication and Community Engagement Working Group (RCCE) provides valuable information on how include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication in regards to COVID-19, aka Corona virus. Marginalize
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The Land of Inopportunity: Closing the childhood equity gap for America's kids
Where a child grows up can determine their prospects in life more than you might guess. In most states across America, there are stark differences between communities that provide children the childhoods they deserve, and those where childhoods end too so
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Research-into-Action Brief: Gender and Disasters- Considering Children
This brief explores how globally, women often suffer disproportionately higher impacts in disasters than men. In many instances where data is available, more women are shown to die compared to men and those that survive may also experience a decline in s
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Utanförskap, Våld och Kärlek till Orten: Barns röster om att växa upp i utsatta kommuner och förorter
Social Exclusion, Violence, and Love to the City-Suburbs: Children's voices on growing up in vulnerable communities All children in Sweden are entitled to the same rights under the Convention of the Rights of the Child. These rights include the right to a
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Stolen Childhoods: End of childhood report 2017
In commemoration of International Children’s Day, Save the Children is launching a unique index exploring the major reasons why childhood comes to an early end. The End of Childhood Index focuses on a set of life-changing events that signal the disruption
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Child Poverty Profile and Vulnerability in the Boucle du Mouhoun Region of Burkina Faso: Final technical report
The Boucle du Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso is amongst the poorest regions in the country with a poverty rate that is about 19.4% higher than the mean national poverty estimate of 40.1%. Second, half of the population in Mouhoun comprise of young childre
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Lebanon Cash Consortium (LCC) Impact Evaluation of the Multipurpose Case Assistance Programme
The Syrian crisis is currently in its sixth year, with over one million Syrians still living in Lebanon as refugees. Nearly 60% of all financial resources pledged by UN agencies and INGOs were to secure basic assistance for Syrian refugees, mainly to supp
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Making Sense of the City: Developing evidence through action research and learning
In 2008, recognising an organisational need to respond and adapt to the growing trend of urbanisation, and its negative impact on the most vulnerable groups, especially children, World Vision launched an action-research and learning approach to investigat
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Save the Children in Mongolia: Project Spotlight
Mongolia is a newly developing country, which is striving to strengthen human rights and democratic governance, while harmonizing both nomadic and urban civilization. Save the Children has been working in Mongolia since 1994 to support Mongolian children'
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Prioritising 'Most Deprived' Children: An evaluation of Save the Children Australia's approaches to reducing inequality
Save the Children Australia (SCA) commissioned this evaluation to assess its processes in prioritising the most deprived women, men, girls and boys. The objective of this evaluation was to examine the extent to which prioritisation of the most vulnerable
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Rapid Assessment of the Drought in Koh Kong Province: Final report (April 2016)
El Niño is an abnormal weather pattern caused when warm water from the western Pacific Ocean flows eastward. It results from variations in ocean temperatures in the Pacific around the equator and occurs on average every two to seven years. Cambodia is cur
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Climate Change, Children and Poverty: Engaging children and youth in policy debate and action
In this Poverty Brief published by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) at the University of Bergen, Norway, the authors argue that children and youth, particularly those living in poverty, must be empowered and supported to have their voi