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Youth Leaders for Nutrition Advocacy Toolkit
A toolkit for youth advocates, designed by youth advocates. Today there are over 1.2 billion adolescents aged 10-19 in the world. Nearly a quarter of the people in Sub-Saharan Africa are aged 10 to 19. The health and nutrition of adolescents are becoming
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Young People Will Transform Global Mental Health: A call to prioritise global action on mental health for young people (Policy brief)
The world's population is young: up to 42 percent of all people are under the age of 25. Mental ill-health is the leading cause of disability in young people aged 10 to 24 years with half of all mental health conditions beginning by the age of 14 and thr
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Youth Voices: Participatory action research with adolescents affected by the Syria crisis in Egypt and Lebanon
This publication is the outcome of a participatory action research (PAR) project to provide evidence on the situation of Syrian and host community adolescent girls and boys in Egypt and Lebanon by enabling them to voice their concerns. The project was als
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Young Voices 2- Mongolia 2018: A child integrity survey report
Young Voices 2 was conducted by Save the Children in Mongolia (SM) and Transparency International Mongolia (TIM) in association with the Young Voices Group of child advocates. It follows on from a previous Young Voices survey in 2017 which highlighted chi
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The Tatu Tano Child-led Organisation: Building child capacity and protective relationships through a child-led organisation, north-western Tanzania (Case study)
This case study tells the story of a child-led organisation called Tatu Tano which was started over ten years ago by a small NGO called Kwa Wazee (Kiswahili for older people). Kwa Wazee works with grandparents in a remote rural area of Tanzania. The area
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Young Voices- Mongolia 2017
Save the Children in Mongolia carried out this Young Voices survey in Mongolia so that children could have a say about all matters that affect them, such as knowledge about their rights, bullying, school costs, safety in the streets and on the internet, h
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"Det Börjar med Dig!": Material för handledare
It is clear that youth do not want to be passive recipients of other's ideas. On the contrary, they need to/want to participate in and create solutions for the problems that affect them and the society they live in. With the methods suggested in this hand
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Youth Ambassadors Report 2017
At Save the Children, we are doing everything we can to ensure children’s rights are recognised and respected. But we cannot do it alone. Young people themselves are the best people to create real, lasting change. That’s why Save the Children Australia ru
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Adolescents' Engagement in Peacebuilding in Lebanon: A toolbox
The Adolescents’ Peacebuilding Engagement Toolkit (APET) is developed to enable adolescents to: Reflect on their experience with conflict and violence in a constructive way; Manage relations with their peers in a peaceful manner and strengthen acceptance
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Empowering Children and Young People with Disabilities to Improve Responses to Child Abuse and Neglect
The need for comprehensive protection of children/youth with disabilities from all forms of violence, abuse and neglect in all environments. was the focus of the Empowering Children/Young People with Disabilities to Improve Responses to Child Abuse and Ne
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Pushing the Boundaries: Understanding women's participation and empowerment
Seeing that the meaning of women's empowerment had been diluted over time, Trócaire undertook a three-year multi-country study on women's participation in decision-making organs on a grassroots level. The study focused on three countries: DRC, India, and
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Get Real: Sharing good practice in the provision of sexual health services for young people
The sexual health of young people continues to be an issue of debate and concern. The Government’s Social Exclusion Unit’s report on Teenage Pregnancy (1999) identified that there were nearly 90,000 teenage conceptions per year in England. The Government’