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Measuring Separation in Emergencies: Haiti following Hurricane Matthew
The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project is an interagency initiative funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and is coordinated by Save the Children in partnership with Columbia University. The overall aim of the MS
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Outcomes for Children from Household Economic Strengthening Interventions: A research synthesis
Traditionally, Economic Strengthening (ES) programmes have focused on the head of the household and were designed on the assumption that any benefits would trickle down to other members of the household including children. Despite this assumption, the imp
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Determining Acceptable Customary Caregiving Arrangements with Congolese Refugees in Rwanda: Findings from rapid studies in two camps and a toolkit for moving forward
This report presents both the process and the findings from a recent attempt to better understand customary caregiving arrangements for refugee children living in two camp-based populations in Rwanda. The study emerged from UNHCR’s recognition that althou
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A Compendium of Tools for the Assessment of the Mental Health and Psychosocial Wellbeing of Children in the Context of Humanitarian Emergencies
This compendium seeks to assist practictioners in navigating the challenges associated with selecting a measurement strategy for the assessment of the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of children in humanitarian emergencies. There is wide concern
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Integrating Early Childhood Development and Violence Prevention: A landscape analysis: Networks, campaigns, movements, and initiatives
While there is considerable programmatic and strategic overlap between the areas of early childhood development and violence prevention, progress in achieving deeper and more sustainable impact by building synergy across the two has been limited. This rep
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Measuring Separation in Emergencies: Pilot summary report Democratic Republic of Congo
The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project is an interagency initiative funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and is coordinated by Save the Children in partnership with Columbia University and Johns Hopkins Universi
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Best Practices for Engaging Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Establishing Synergies with the Education Sector: Learning from protracted refugee settings in Uganda and Rwanda
The aim of this note is to outline some ways of engaging with CBCPMs, especially within the education sector, which apply in both urban and rural protracted refugee settings. This note is based on the findings of two studies of CBCPMs and their linkages t
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What do we know about economic strengthening for family reintegration of separated children?
This report looks at economic strengthening (ES) approaches used in family reintegration programs to capture lessons learned. It outlines common ES approaches, their advantages and disadvantages; offers case studies of innovative models; and recommends ke
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Social Service Workforce Training in the West and Central Africa Region
The focus of this study is to better understand how social workers and related professionals are trained and educated—both formally and informally—to engage in social work practice, especially as it is related to child protection, in the West and Central
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Measuring violence against children in humanitarian settings: A scoping exercise of methods and tools
From May-December 2013 the CPWG Assessment and Measurement Task Force conducted a scoping exercise in order to examine two child protection issues considered “hard to measure” in humanitarian settings: sexual violence against children and violence within
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Mapping Community-based Child Protection Mechanisms- Uganda
In diverse contexts, child protection mechanisms are the systems that protect children from exploitation, abuse, violence, and neglect and promote children’s well-being. Components of Community-based Child Protection Mechanisms (CBCPMs) include the people
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Lessons Learned: Conducting research on community-based child protection mechanisms
The Inter-Agency Learning Initiative launched a learning program in West Africa and East Africa, in Sierra Leone and Kenya, respectively. The initiative used rapid ethnography- an empirically-oriented, bottom-up- approach to learn about community based ch