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Appropriate Care
Millions of children are living without appropriate care for various reasons such as violence and abuse, poverty, conflict, parental illness, HIV and AIDS, disability and humanitarian disasters etc. Many of these children live on the streets, in extended families, in institutions or in unsafe situations at home.
An estimated 8 million vulnerable children around the world live in poor-quality institutional care that is harmful to their physical, social and intellectual development. Yet four out of five of those children have at least one parent alive who, with support, could care for them.
Millions of children are on the move both within and between countries and very little attention is paid to their care and protection at national, regional or international levels. Children on the move, and especially those who move alone, are extremely vulnerable to violence and discrimination.
Save the Children is working to strengthen the capacity of families to care for their children and support the development of family-based alternative care options for children who cannot remain with their families. We work to ensure children have good quality care, nurture and guidance at a physical, emotional, social and psychological level, getting any mental health and psychosocial support needed.
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"Yarankowane" Children Belong to Everyone: Nigeria report on Kinship Care
Children without Appropriate Care (CwAC) is a priority area for Save the Children’s child protection work for the period 2010-2015. In working toward this priority, Save the Children embarked on a multi-country participatory research initiative from 2012-
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Literature Review: Jozi Lights- children on the move
This literature review is part of a greater research project on children on the move in Southern Africa, currently being finalised by Save the Children International.
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Save the Children’s Child Protection Strategy 2013-2015: Making the world a safe place for children
In 2009, Save the Children launched the Global Child Protection Initiative (CPI) to strengthen children’s right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence. By 2015, Save the Children aims to have improved the lives of 21 million childr
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Interagency Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children (2013) Alternative Care in Emergencies Toolkit
A practical interagency resource designed to facilitate alternative care for children during and after an emergency. The Alternative Care in Emergencies (ACE) Toolkit is designed to facilitate interagency planning and implementation of alternative care an
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Improving the Lives of Children in Cotton Growing Districts of Pakistan: Evaluation report
Save the Children implemented a child rights program, titled CHAON “Children's Action against Oppression and Neglect”, in 200 villages of Muzaffarghar (Punjab) and 150 villages of Sanghar (Sindh) from 2009 to 2013. This project was implemented in partners
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Stratégie de protection de l’enfant de Save the Children pour 2013-2015
French version of Save the Children’s Child Protection Strategy 2013-2015: Making the world a safe place for children. In 2009, Save the Children launched the Global Child Protection Initiative (CPI) to strengthen children’s right to be protected from abu
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Joint Statement of the InterAgency Group on Children on the Move
Joint statement of the InterAgency Group on Children on the Move submitted at the 2012 Day of General Discussion hosted by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which overall objective is to promote, at the international and national levels, the ri
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Day of General Discussion: “The rights of all children in the context of international migration”. Speech by Lena Karlsson, Director, Child Protection Initiative
Ms Lena Karlsson, Director of Save the Children's Child Protection Initiative, presented the section 'Global Overview of case studies on specific challenges faced by children in international migration situations and successful approaches for addressing t
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Save the Children's CPI Newsletter- July 2012
Who is a good caregiver? What obligations do states have towards children in terms of the care they should get? And how can Save the Children work to support children, caregivers, communities, and states in their efforts to improve care for children? Thes
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The Rights of All Children in the Context of International Migration: Voices of Children on the Move
This report summarises the consultations with migrant children carried out in preparation for the Day of General Discussion (DGD) in five regions around the world over a period of 3 months, involving over 100 children. Children were consulted in China, My
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Our story- We were forced to flee Syria
This is a series of six short films produced by Save the Children's Lebanon country program. The films were created entirely by children who were forced to flee Syria. These are the stories of Syria's refugee children, as told by the children themselves.
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Save the Children’s Child Protection Strategy 2013-2015:Children Without Appropriate Care
Children without appropriate care (CWAC) is a priority focus area for Save the Children’s child protection work. The CWAC Strategy 2013-2015 outlines the key priorities that Save the Children (SC) aims to achieve by 2015. The overall strategic goal of ca