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Achieving True Early Action: A summary of Save the Children's learning from 3 pilot projects to mitigate slow onset food and nutrition crises (2014-2017)
In many countries, resilience and development gains continue to be undermined by recurrent, predictable slow onset food and nutrition crises. Despite early warning signs, the humanitarian community is slow to react, only after lives and livelihoods already ...
Read moreHorn of Africa One Year On Report: Helping children and their families survive the gripping impact of the drought in 2017
The Horn of Africa has been grappling with the effects of consecutive failed rains across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia that led to 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance at the start of 2017. Save the Children’s response over the past ...
Read moreAddressing the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in the Horn of Africa
Protracted crises resulting from prolonged conflict, recurring drought, and natural hazards, as well as cycles of displacement characterize several parts of the Horn of Africa (HoA). The scale of crises, stretched resources and the need to support communities ...
Read moreAdolescents in Transition in the Horn of Africa
Cycles of drought, conflict and political instability in the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia) continue to impact the wellbeing of children, and the situation is getting worse with the frequency of crises and growing population pressures. ...
Read moreMeasuring Separation in Emergencies: Community-based monitoring in rural Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia
The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project is an interagency initiative under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and coordinated by Save the Children ...
Read morePreventing Violence Against Refugee Adolescent Girls: Findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Ethiopia
Interpersonal violence is a critical public health concern in humanitarian contexts, but evidence of effective violence prevention programmes targeting adolescent girls is lacking.The researchers investigated the efficacy of a life skills and safe spaces ...
Read moreRights of Migrants in Action: Child protection projects – Synthesis report of lessons learned in Benin, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia
The “Rights of Migrants in Action” (RoMiA) was a global project that aimed to protect and promote the rights of migrants while harnessing the knowledge and building the capacity of civil society organizations (CSO). The project focused on enforcing ...
Read moreFrom Leaving Home to Setting up Shop
According to the International Labor Organization, in 2016, there were 150 million migrant workers in the world – 66.6 million of them were women. In Ethiopia, poverty, unemployment and family pressure to earn money, combined with low public awareness ...
Read moreCompromised Futures: East Africa's drought and conflict crisis' impact on children's wellbeing
Persistent drought and conflict has caused devastating food insecurity across East Africa with multiple, dire, and potentially long-term effects on children. Besides being an immediate threat to children's survival in terms of health and well-being, ...
Read moreNutrition in the WHO African Region
Today, nutrition is considered a fundamental pre-requisite to health and well-being, and a primary indicator of future human capital development. The first 1000 days of a child's life is especially crucial. Physical growth and cognitive development within ...
Read moreYouth Transitions in the Horn of Africa: A Study on Youth Migration and Save the Children Programming in the Arid Lands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
A major shift in humanitarian approaches to protracted crises began following the 2010/11 drought in the Horn of Africa (HoA). The scale of the suffering combined with the failure of the international humanitarian system and governments in the region ...
Read moreInvestigating Gender Based Insecurity & Mobility: Formative qualitative research in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Haiti
This report summarizes the findings and initial programmatic recommendations for Concern Worldwide from the first phase of a multipart study of gender based insecurity and mobility among the urban poor. This first phase consisted of formative qualitative ...
Read moreYouth in Action Ethiopia Tracer Study
Youth in Action (YiA), is a six-year youth learning and livelihoods program in partnership with Mastercard Foundation. The program works to improve the sustainable livelihoods of over 40,000 out-of-school girls and boys in rural Burkina Faso, Egypt, ...
Read moreImproving Access to Protection, Education and Health Services for Children with Disabilities
The Save the Children International global strategy 2016-2018 places a strong focus on the children who have been left behind by recent social and economic gains. To reach these children, Save the Children has committed to consciously and deliberately ...
Read moreRole of Youth in Action in Long-Term Livelihood Development of Rural Ethiopian Youth
The Youth in Action (YiA) program is a six-year program implemented by Save the Children in partnership with the MasterCard foundation. YiA works to empower approximately 40,000 out-of school youth between the ages of 12 and 18 in five countries: Egypt, ...
Read moreElectronic Transfers in Humanitarian Assistance and Uptake of Financial Services: A synthesis of ELAN case studies
Cash transfers are playing an increasingly large role in humanitarian responses. Mobile money, using a mobile device to access financial services, is growing across the globe and humanitarian agencies are taking advantage of this trend to deliver cash ...
Read moreCommunity Based Child Protection as a Strategy for Protecting South Sudanese Refugee Children: A case study from Gambella, Ethiopia
This case study describes the role of community-based child protection committees (CPCs) in improving the safety and protection of children in three South Sudanese refugee camps in Gambella, Ethiopia. Two years of intensive work by the CPCs in the ...
Read moreEffect on Neonatal Mortality of Newborn Infection Management at Health Posts when Referral is not Possible: A cluster-randomized trial in rural Ethiopia
This journal article is a study that evaluated newborn infection treatment at the post-peripheral level of the health system in Ethiopia. It looks specifically at the role that Health Extension Workers (HEWs) play in providing antibiotic treatment of ...
Read moreUnderstanding the Unique Experiences, Perspectives and Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Very Young Adolescents: Somali refugees in Ethiopia
Kobe Refugee camp hosts roughly 39,000 refugees displaced from Somalia during the 2011–2012 Horn of Africa Crisis. Sexual and reproductive health, as with the greater issues of health and well-being for adolescents displaced from this crisis remain ...
Read moreEffect of Youth in Action on Work Readiness and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Findings from Ethiopia
About 89 million youth between the ages of 12-24 are part of a growing cohort of out-of-school youth, approximately half of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa. While many of these youth aspire to be active members of their community, many out-of-school ...
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