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Cross Thematic Areas

Children do not live in boxes. A hungry or frightened child cannot learn and equal access to services requires sufficient investments in children by governments and families. Progress towards all children surviving, learning and no longer experiencing violence requires Save the Children to work across its five thematic areas of health and nutrition, child protection, child poverty, education and child rights governance.

Cross thematic areas are those that impact all or nearly all aspects of Save the Children programming. Because of their encompassing nature, they are presented here separately with a great deal of overlap. For example, child participation can be present during child protection in emergencies or child rights monitoring. By presenting these thematic areas individually, examples specific to each can be clearly presented and explored for a greater perspective of different ways in which Save the Children employs each.

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Save the Children Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners

The Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) was developed by Save the Children Denmark for the Child Protection Initiative, to facilitate training in psychological first aid with a focus on children. It is aimed at developing

Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children Denmark Author(s): Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Melin, Mie | Terlonge, Pernille
Counting Youth Pulse

Currently, youth make up the most prominent demographic in Bangladesh. While they are already an active ingredient of the economy, more effective engagement and leadership of this demographic is imperative for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Sabina, Nazme | Mustafa, Bazle | Rahman, Amina | Nova
Trainingshandbuch zur Psychologischen Ersten Hilfe für Kinder (PFA)

Published 2017, the German version of the Psychological First Aid Training Manual for Child Practitioners (PFA) is a condensed psychological first aid training based on the original two-day Psychological First Aid Training for Child Practitioners. It buil

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Germany Author(s): Øllgaard, Rosa Marie | Dybdal, Anne-Sophie | Terlonge, Pernille
Save the Children Gender Equality Policy: Transforming Inequalities, Transforming Lives

Gender equality is a basic right for all people, including girls and boys. Based on this understanding, Save the Children believes that it is critical to directly address gender discrimination and promote gender equality in order to ensure that no harm co

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children
Young Voices- Armenia 2017

Young Voices is a nation-wide survey on what children think about certain issues concerning themselves. Save the Children in Armenia carried out the Young Voices survey using questionnaires and focus group discussions among 1200 children across all 10 Reg

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children
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

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Enkhbat, Tsolmon | Zagir, Togtokhmaa | Wilson, Susan
Young Voices- Lithuania 2017

Young Voices- Lithuania is Save the Children Lithuania's nation-wide survey of children aged 12, 14, and 17, asking them their views on bullying, violence, unsafe places, feeling bad, support and help, school, education, their rights, the future, and much

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Lithuania Author(s): Žukaitė, Vilte | Kairienė, Brigita
Investing in Girls: Realizing gender equality through fair finance for girls

The inclusion of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”, is a testament to the importance of gender equity in realising the SDGs’ ambitious vision. Not only does it recognise that “the achievemen

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Wainer, Andrew | Cilliers, Ulrika | Lenhardt, Amanda | Elliott, Helen | ...
Young Voices- Albania 2017

Young Voices is a nation-wide survey on what children think about all issues that concern them under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Save the Children in Albania carried out the survey in cooperation with the child led group “Voice 16+…”, with

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children
Urban Situation Analysis: Guide and Toolkit

The 2015 Urban Program Learning Group meeting in Delhi, India, highlighted the need for an Urban Situation Analysis Guide to help development practitioners around the world navigate the urban context; a need that was reiterated by Save the Children countr

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Mortensen, Justin | Sweeting, David | Thakre, Manish | Ray, Manab
Final Project Evaluation Report towards Systematic Change to Realize Children’s Rights in Zambia (2013 to 2017)

Save the Children (SC) Zambia implemented a Child Rights Program (2013-2017) titled; “Towards a systematic change to realize Children’s Rights in Zambia.” The programme had three thematic areas namely; Child Rights Governance (CRG), Child Protection, and

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Nsana. ...
UNGA 2017 Resolution on Violence Against Children

As part of Agenda 2030, the world’s governments have set ambitious targets to end violence by 2030, in order to deliver the vision of a world where all children – boys and girls alike – grow up free from violence. This year’s resolution is an opportunity

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children