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Child Safeguarding
Save the Children has a zero tolerance towards the abuse and exploitation of children by any of the organisation’s representatives. In addition, the organisation is equally committed to doing everything within its power to avoid unintended harm or accidents to children as a result of any of the activities.
This is crystallized within Save the Children’s Child Safeguarding Policy. In support of this policy, Save the Children has developed a set of standards, procedures and guidance and tools. This is a comprehensive range of materials which are itemized and available on the Resource Centre.
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Disability-inclusive Child Safeguarding Guidelines
These guidelines have been developed to respond to an existing gap in child safeguarding practices, which often fail to recognize the specific requirements and adaptations needed to ensure the safety of children with disabilities. The guidelines build on
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Disability-inclusive Child Safeguarding Toolkit
This toolkit provides helpful solutions for organisations and practitioners working across development and humanitarian sectors on how to plan for disability-inclusive child safeguarding programmes. Each tool provided shows how to include children with di
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Safeguarding in Emergencies Toolkit
Save the Children’s vital humanitarian work represents around 50% of all the work that we do and is often made up of a mix of life-saving and life-sustaining work. Because of this, humanitarian workers are placed in a position of trust by the populations
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Safeguarding in Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Learning (MEAL) and Research
This document outlines some potential safeguarding risks of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) and research activities, and provides suggestions of how to manage these activities so that they are as safe for affected children and
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Child Safeguarding: Safe and secure programmes for children
Save the Children Sweden's Child Safeguarding Policy This policy relates to the Child Safeguarding Protocol of the global Save the Children Association. The Protocol was adopted in March 2010 and describes the policies and procedures that all member count
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All'Asilo Nido Si Cresce Sicuri!
This is a manual conceived as a support tool for the realization of training courses on the Protection System of girls and children. The primary objective of the Protection System is to prevent and minimize the risk of inappropriate behaviours that may ha
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Terremoto in Italia Centrale: Il nostro intervento
In emergency situations, children are always the most vulnerable- so right after the first earthquake that devastated Central Italy on August 24th, Save the Children Italy took immediate action. One year after the start of these seismic events in 2016, t
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Two Years of Drought Response in Ethiopia
El Nino has caused the third successive rainfall failure in some areas of Ethiopia, and from the middle of 2015 onwards the country has since been in a race against time to meet the resulting food needs of 10.2 million people. This precarious situation ca
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Childhood Under Siege: Living and dying in besieged areas of Syria
This report sheds light on the reality of life and death that is being endured by people – particularly children – in besieged areas of Syria, and shows the urgent need for the international community to take action. Save the Children and partners have co
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Reducing Risks, Enhancing Resilience: Save the Children and Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation
This report from Save the Children highlights the critical role that children play in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Save the Children believes that although children are vulnerable, they have the potential to effectively communicate risks and act as agen
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Jozi Lights: How to protect children engaging in rural to urban migration
By the late 2030s, Africa is set to become a continent with more of its population living in urban than rural areas. Not only do population growth trends in Africa suggest that the sizes of those urban populations will be substantial (by 2100, almost half
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Understanding Child Safeguarding: A facilitators guide
This guide is intended for anyone responsible for delivering learning events or facilitating workshops on child safeguarding. It will aid in planning and facilitating workshops for staff and associates who have little understanding of child abuse and what