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The purpose of this review is to explore how UNICEF country offices have used Public Finance for Children (PF4C) analyses and interventions within child protection, with a view to learning lessons from their experiences.
As part of its mission to protect and enhance the rights for children, UNICEF works with partner governments to achieve the best possible use of public budgets. This includes the use of public financial analysis, capacity building and advocacy to ensure public funding is adequate, efficient, effective, equitable and transparent, commonly described as Public…
This report explores how gender-restrictive groups are using child protection rhetoric to manufacture moral panic and mobilize against human rights, and how this strengthens the illiberal politics currently undermining democracies. The report’s comparative analysis of three country case studies (Bulgaria, Ghana, and Perú) underscores recurring strategies, narratives, and actors and gives insight into how gender-restrictive groups collaborate and engage in coalitional work across the globe. This significant new research report includes important findings and recommendations for funders.
Diversos estudios apuntan a la importancia de invertir en la primera infancia – ya que las experiencias y aprendizajes que tienen lugar durante este período crítico de la vida humana determinan en gran parte el desarrollo a futuro de los niños y niñas. Sin embargo, debido a la situación de pobreza y vulnerabilidad en la que viven muchas familias de América Latina, muchos niños y niñas no reciben el cuidado, la nutrición, la salud y los ambientes seguros y acogedores que…
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This article presents the Peru results as part of the Multi Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children. The article provides an overview of the Peruvian context, the methodology of the study and research results and impact attributable to both the Study’s products and its processes. Results show a high prevalence of violence against children in Peru and various factors that contribute to this situation. The article also examines an action-oriented, locally led approach that served to transform…
Este documento discute el enfoque integral utilizado por Save the Children para promover la sinergia entre la autonomía personal y el desarrollo económico. A través de este enfoque, Save the Children espera proteger a los niños y adolescentes de la violencia, garantizar el acceso a la educación, el empleo y permitirles optar por retrasar la paternidad.
Este programa opera a través de tres áreas temáticas: la capacitación personal, de salud sexual y reproductiva, y los derechos económicos.
Este documento ofrece una visión general del enfoque integral de Save the Children por país. Los…
This document discusses the comprehensive approach used by Save the Children to promote synergy between personal autonomy and economic development. Through this approach, Save the Children hopes to protect children and adolescents from violence, ensure access to education, employment, and enable them to choose to delay parenthood.
This program operates through three thematic areas: personal empowerment, sexual and reproductive health, and economic rights. This document provides an overview of Save the Children’s comprehensive approach by country. The countries included in this report…
Esta Guía reúne una serie de programas, prácticas y políticas públicas que resultaron en la garantía del derecho a la convivencia familiar y comunitaria de niñas y niños en su primera infancia. En particular, se caracterizan por ser innovadoras o por haber obtenido buenos resultados en la protección y la restitución de este derecho. Las experiencias recopiladas abarcan programas, proyectos e iniciativas públicas, privadas o mixtas de fortalecimiento familiar, provisión de cuidados alternativos, y de reintegración familiar.
Sin perder de vista que se trata de prácticas diversas, impulsadas…
This booklet is based on a recent internal desk review of Save the Children’s and partners’ work against physical and humiliating punishment of children, commissioned by Save the Children Sweden. It aims to present best practices, to show what methods have worked around the world, and to spread knowledge about results achieved and lessons learned when it comes to law reform and positive discipline. The booklet states first and foremost that children have the absolute right to be safe from violence as stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Violence does not have a…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committees' recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children. It also describes different experiences of the implementation of foster care programs, and the description of processes of de-institutionalization and system reform. All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.