In the Spotlight

Life-Saving Education for Children in Emergencies September 2018

As part of its launch, the Resource Centre highlights the Improving Learning Environments Together (ILET) training package for the month of September. The project, and subsequent package, was developed by Save the Children Norway to be used as a tool to involve communities in improving learning environments in emergencies. The approach encourages transparency, enforces accountability and ownership, and inspires the creation of local solutions.

Healthy Children Learn More May 2018

For the month of May, we spotlight our collaboration with Save the Children’s School Health and Nutrition Program (SHN). Through this partnership, the program’s most essential materials have been gathered and made accessible through the Resource Centre—ranging from programming manuals to child-friendly educational materials. The School Health and Nutrition resources come in a variety of languages, representing the diversity of the achievements of the School Health and Nutrition programs worldwide.

A Children's Emergency February 2018

In this February Spotlight, we highlight Childhood Interrupted: Children's voices from the Rohingya Refugee Crisis, a child consultation report produced by Save the Children, World Vision, and Plan International. It is featured alongside other pertinent publications containing the most recent updates on the situation in Cox Bazar and what Save the Children has done, and is currently doing, to help Rohingya children in need.

Young Voices Want to be Heard

“No one has ever asked what we think,” one child answered in the first survey of Young Voices, a project that was developed by Save the Children Sweden and has now been exported to several other countries, including Mongolia, Kosovo and Lithuania. Through innovative communication and advocacy activities, the project aims to make sure that duty-bearers hear the voices of young people and children.

Local to Global programming: improving communities and children’s lives

In Save the Children Sweden’s Local to Global programme, experiences from working with children at the community level are used in advocacy. Children and community members are empowered to claim their rights in matters that concern them and to hold duty-bearers accountable. The programme is successfully contributing to concrete improvements in children’s lives in several countries, including Zambia.

Children Rescued at Sea

In September 2016, Save the Children launched the Mediterranean rescue operation Rescue at Sea. During its three months of operation, Save the Children’s search and rescue team, aboard the organisation’s rescue ship Vos Hestia, rescued over 2,700 lives, including over 400 children.

Only a child, already a mother

Globally, adolescent pregnancy implies a higher risk of maternal and infant mortality. It limits girls’ opportunities to learn, as pregnant girls many times have to drop out of school. Vulnerability to poverty, exclusion and dependency increases for young mothers as well as for their children.

In the spotlight

World Humanitarian Summit -moving the agenda forward for refugee children

The World Humanitarian Summit promised to be a revolution in the way the world addresses humanitarian emergencies. One of the commitments made was that education should be seen as a humanitarian priority, just as important as food and shelter in a crisis.

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