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A practical handbook to organizing summer camps for children: Protection, Learning and Fun!
This document represents a simple guideline for planning and organizing a summer camp for vulnerable children in need of protection. These guidelines target Child Protection Units (CPUs), civil society, government agencies and community based organization
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At 12 Years, a Slave...Children in Forced Labour
Terre des Hommes is dedicated to fighting child slavery. This study, written by the economist Friedel Hütz-Adams, aggregates and analyzes data from over a hundred legal sources, studies, quantitative data resources, as well as stories from victims in orde
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Locally-Developed Child Protection Practices Concerning Mobile Children in West Africa
This study, commissioned by Terre des homes and co-edited by the Regional Working Group on Child Protection in West Africa, represents a summary of information available about locally developed (or ‘endogenous’) practices that have the effect of protectin
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The Added Value of Protective Accompaniment of Children
Terre des Hommes Foundation Lausanne decided to tackle the problem of undocumented child migration by launching a regional project in 2008 whose aim was to offer migrant children better protection. The project was implemented, through local and strategic
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Analysis of the Situation of Children on the Move: assessing the capacity and the adequacy of the child protection system in Hungary to ensure the protection of children on the move. Mario Project Research Report
The main objective of this Mario research was to analyze good practices and gaps of the Hungarian Child Protection System (CPS) in relation to children on the move. The report is based on a desk research and qualitative methods according to “Mario Methodo
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Traditional Games for Child Protection- Terre des hommes
A handbook of games developed out of experience gained by organisers and trainers of the Terre des hommes MOVE project in Romania, Moldavia and Albania. This booklet is aimed to strengthen youngsters' life skills of cooperation, responsibility, flexibilit
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What Can YOU Do to Protect Children on the Move: A handbook to enable organisations to review how they prevent child trafficking and exploitation, and whether they ensure that the best interests of the child guide their activities
This handbook is aimed at organisations that try to stop children from experiencing harm as a result of exploitation or other abuse- particularly young people who move from one place to another (with or without other family members) or migrate within thei
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Enhancing child protection systems
The newest thematic policy of Terre des hommes (Tdh) is entitled “Enhancing child protection systems”. Many organisations, including Terre des hommes, have been working since 2000 onthe development and strengthening of child protection systems.The aim of
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Protecting Migrant Children in a Freedom of Movement Area. Transnational monitoring of return procedures involving Romanian and Bulgarian migrant children in Greece and France
This research paper published by Terre des hommes, looks at the intra EU migration of Romanian and Bulgarian children to France and Greece in situations of vulnerability. It focuses on the return procedures that are used by countries and assesses the latt
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Implementation of the national strategy and action plan for the reform of the residential childcare system in Moldova 2007-2012: Evaluation report
In July 2007 the Government of Moldova approved a National Strategy and Action Plan to reform its residential childcare system. At the time, 12,000 children were thought to be living in large orphanages and boarding schools in Moldova. Previous studies ha
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The South Asian Report on the Child-friendliness of Governments
Save the Children, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, Plan International, Terre des Hommes, and CRY: Child Rights and You launches a new comprehensive rights-based report which, for the first time, objectively measures the extent to which the South Asian gover
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Working with children and their environment. Manual of psychosocial skills
A new manual developed by Terre des hommes (Tdh) answers pressing questions: which are the skills needed by professionals working with children? How can they be improved and afterwards assessed? Because today we know that special skills are required to be