This report was commissioned by the Initiative for Child rights in the Global Compacts in view of the Africa Regional Review Meeting of the Global Compact for Safe and Orderly Migration (‘GCM’). It provides a snapshot of how the GCM’s child...
Positive parenting in sub-Saharan Africa is undeveloped and fundamentally inadequate. Few countries have policies that focus specifically on positive parenting or a framework for parenting into which this is integrated and defined as a priority....
Children and families in Lebanon are enduring multiple crises. The economic collapse and the COVID-19 pandemic have significantly curtailed children’s rights and their access to basic services. This has been compounded by political deadlock,...
This success story presents the story of Kemeru Abdela, a beneficiary of Growth through Nutrition. Since receiving livstock from the project and subsequently joining a savings group – Milkaina Boru (which mean’s “tomorrow’s...
In early April 2020, to halt the spread of COVID-19, an estimated 1.6 billion learners globally – 91% of the total – were out of school. For the first time in human history, an entire generation of children globally have had their education...
Nepal’s Every Newborn Action Plan 2015 aspires to reduce newborn deaths from 21 per 1000 in 2016 to 18.9 per 1,000 live births by 2020 and to 10.9 by 2035. Improving access for early diagnosis and prompt treatment of Possible Severe Bacterial...
Cambodia reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on 27 January 2020. As of 27 May, there are 124 confirmed cases, and no reported deaths. Save the Children, who has been working in Cambodia since 1970, quickly leveraged its humanitarian...
This document presents Save the Children’s vision in the area of social protection and draws together a wide range of examples of our work from accumulated experience in the last decade and a half, categorised into five main types of work....
The COVID-19 Pandemic poses immediate and long-lasting risks to the rights of children including the disruption of access to education, the potential for reduced access to primary and secondary health services, and increased protection risks. Save...
The Kenya Ministry of Health increased testing capacity has led to 11,673 total confirmed COVID-19 cases. Total fatalities to date stand at 217. About 95,000 people across the country have been displaced by floods and landslides according to OCHA....