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There is an urgent need to strengthen early childhood development and education in emergencies (ECDEiE) globally. Colombia has faced protracted and acute crises for decades. Also, the country has applied a unique approach to holistic and integrated ECDE policy formulation. We argue that these characteristics offer a valuable country‐case to identify barriers and levers to the operationalization of ECDEiE. We applied a sector‐wide analysis protocol that harmonized components of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle by the Inter‐Agency Standing Committee and of a framework to…
This report consolidates findings from a rapid participatory consultation with: (1) migrant girls in the Northeastern Colombia border region, (2) front-line practitioners providing services to migrant children and their families, and (3) Save the Children teams in Colombia.
This report is part of a global research series on girls on the move.
El presente estudio aborda la realidad del impacto de la migración forzosa en niños, niñas y adolescentes venezolanos. A partir de ello, se realizó una misión en Arauca para documentar el impacto de la migración en esta zona fronteriza y su relación con el conflicto armado en Colombia. Así mismo, se tomó la decisión de replicar los datos nacionales obtenidos junto a Datanálisis, los cuales fueron obtenidos debido a la relevancia que estos han tenido para permitir el monitoreo del impacto que posee la migración en los niños, niñas y adolescentes. Adicionalmente se complementa dicha información…
This report aims to bring global attention to the challenges related to the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups, and promote better policy, practice and funding in the future. The findings are based on a literature review and primary research in Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, and interviews with government departments, UN agencies, NGOs and civil society in Colombia, Iraq and South Sudan. The global financial analysis was undertaken in 2018.
This report identifies key barriers to reintegration programming that War Child has…
World Vision commissioned the research, 'No Choice', to better understand children associated with armed groups. Featuring primary and secondary research from Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq and South Sudan, this research helps us understand who joins and why, by lifting up the voices and experiences of girls and boys from these countries. The report also proposes solutions to end child recruitment, especially for those children who are so surrounded by hardship that joining an armed force or group seems like the least bad of only…
This survey highlights efforts to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate former child soldiers in Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Kosovo, analyzing them in terms of policy and legal issues, political context and program implementation. The special needs facing the former child soldiers are discussed along with political situation and child protection in each country. Conclusion, lessons learned, challenges and recommendations are presented at the end of the survey.
This survey stresses that disarmament; demobilization and reintegration programs need to…
PANAMA CITY, Oct 11 (Reuters) - On their trek north towards the United States, some 19,000 migrant children have crossed the dangerous jungles that sprawl the border between Panama and Colombia so far this year, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said Monday.
The number of children who crossed the Darien Gap is almost three times higher than the total for the previous five years, it said in a statement, adding that one in five migrants crossing the border are children, and half of them is under five years old.
In 2021, at least five children were found dead in the jungle, the…
Two sisters in Colombia who were separated when they were children after an avalanche destroyed their town have been reunited 30 years later. The sisters, Jaqueline and Lorena Sanchez, were separated in 1985 when a volcano in Tolima erupted, killing at least 20,000 people. The two sisters were adopted by separate families and spent years looking for each other. The two were reunited after DNA tests, a social media campaign and with help from the Armando Armero Foundation which was set up to help victims of the disaster in Tolima.