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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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Social Protection for Orphan and Vulnerable Children Advocacy Success 2020
This report presents an overview of advocacy messages, methods, and outcomes in Nepal for improved social protection measures for orphan and vulnerable children.
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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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Rights of Vulnerable Families and Children of India under COVID-19: Implications for effective response and mitigation strategies
Through a Rapid Needs Assessment, Save the Children undertook the task to understand, as a result of COVID-19, the most important challenges at the household level, various distress measures for meeting family needs, effects on children's education, key c
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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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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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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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Unequal Portions: Ending malnutrition for every last child
Good nutrition – a healthy, balanced, adequate diet – is a matter of life or death. And the difference between surviving or thriving. It is essential for a healthy immune system, to protect against disease throughout life. And it’s crucial for a country’s
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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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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