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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
Young Voices Brochure: Find out what young people really think

What began as a local advocacy tool, launched by Save the Children Sweden in 2014, has crossed the globe, being implemented by six countries and counting. Young Voices is a valuable method to collect the views of children aged 12 to 16 on issues that conc

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children Sweden Author(s): Voors, Barbara
Fortaleciendo la Respuesta ante Desastres en el Perú

Lecciones Aprendidas del Fenómeno El Niño Costero 2017 en el Perú aims to strengthen the response to disasters in the country and promote a useful reflection of recurrent phenomena in the context of the climate change. The objective of this research was t

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): INDECI, Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil | WFP, World Food Programme | ... Author(s): Chávez Cresta, Jorge Luis | Burbano, Carmen | Villalobos, María Gabriella
Children, Do You Know What To Do During Emergencies?

The Philippines is hit by around 20 tropical cyclones every year, state weather bureau PAGASA reported. Aside from typhoons, other forms of natural calamities can happen, such as earthquakes, landslides, extreme flooding, and volcanic eruptions, among sev

Publication year: 2018 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
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
Transforming Inequalities, Transforming Lives: Gender equality and inclusion strategy (2017-2021)

Save the Children has a global Gender Equality Policy that mandates promoting gender equality and the empowerment of girls and women, a policy that is grounded in both the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children
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 | ...
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
State of the World's Fathers 2017

The second State of the World’s Fathers report, 2017 Time for Action, focuses on the actions needed to make progress towards fathers’ equal participation in unpaid care work. At the current rate of progress, it will take 75 years to achieve global equalit

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): MenCare | Promundo | The Sonke Gender Justice Network | ... Author(s): Heilman, Brian | Levtov, Ruti | van der Gaag, Nikki | Hassink, Alexa | ...
Limiting and Planning for Schools as Temporary Evacuation Centres in Emergencies: Policy brief and practice guidance for Pacific Nations

For the past decades in the Pacific, schools have been used as unplanned shelters by Internally Displaced Persons, and sometimes even as bases for fighting forces during conflict. This is incredibly disruptive to children's education and demonstrates an u

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Australian Aid | Save the Children
Comprehensive School Safety: A global framework in support of The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector and The Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools

The CSS framework is intended to advance the goals of the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools and the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, and to promote school safety as a priority area of post-2015 framew

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): GADRRR-ES, Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector ...