Youth in Action (YiA) is a six-year learning and livelihood program. In partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, YiA aims to improve the socio-economic status of 40,000 rural out-of-school girls and boys between the age of 12 to 18 in Burkina...
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 document outlines some potential safeguarding risks of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) and research activities, and provides suggestions of how to manage these activities so that they are as safe for affected...
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...
The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergencies. However, improperly built and/or poorly maintained WASH facilities (such as latrines) have contributed to child...
This module aims to build a foundational understanding of child rights principles, the core elements of a safe and protective learning environment, and the role of the teacher as a champion of child rights and Safe Schools. Furthermore it seeks to...
This Module covers the different types, causes and impacts of violence that children experience, particularly in schools and classrooms.
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...
Save the Children is implementing the Challenging Urban Poverty project in Yangon, Myanmar to support the socioeconmic ‘graduation’ of very poor and vulnerable urban households. The intetrgated package provided to 500 housholds...