Through the programme “Integrating Child Protection within the African Peace and Security Architecture”, Save the Children sought to institute and monitor a functional accountability framework on child protection within the African Union, the...
This presents the story of Burke Amsalu, a mother of four children who struggled to find sustainable income as a local-spirit vendor and laborer in the Horo Guduru Welega zone in Ethiopia. Since receiving training and livestock from Growth through...
This booklet provides step-by-step guidance on how to deliver the Safe Schools Teacher Professional Development modules focused on Positive Discipline. It’s aimed to be used by master trainers, teacher trainers, inspectors and Save the...
The evidence review conducted for the development of Safe Schools Common Approach (Violence Free Schools element) found that Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) development was a key effective strategy for the prevention of peer violence amongst...
This Annex draws on various international documents on the ethical conduct of research, monitoring, and evaluation (RME), the codes of ethics of international agencies, ethical guidelines in social research (Save the Children UK and Save the...
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted 30 years ago, has contributed to a transformation of historic proportions. On most measures, the lives of children today are on average dramatically better than 30 years ago. Hundreds of...
This report represents six priority areas for investment in child rights that can overcome these two key obstacles of inequality and rapidly changing context. Identified as “game changers”, they represent significant shifts in the...
This booklet (June 2019) presents some stories of change from young people and adults from the 8 countries in East and Southern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe) where the Adolescent Sexual and...
For children in Afghanistan, the war has exacted a heavy toll of suffering and continues to pose a number of profound threats. Prolonged conflict exposes children to toxic levels of stress, affects their access to education and health facilities...
Women and girls face extreme forms of violations in Somalia; common among them is Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). National statistics estimates over 97% of girls aged 15 to 19 years have undergone FGM/C. To accelerate change towards...