This Quick Reference Guide is a practical guide for all stakeholders who hope to implement a government-led, cross-border coordination mechanism for the protection of children who are unaccompanied and separated while in situations of migration or...
This paper is the second in a series of policy briefs produced by Uganda’s National Child Protection Working Group, with support from Save the Children. Despite enormous child protection needs in Uganda, national funding for the sector remains...
This success story details how Kidist Tadesse, a graduate from Hawassa Poly Technic College in Water Treatment, is the only water quality expert in the Awada Boricha Water Supply Project. However, following an intervention by Growth Through...
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...
Cash transfers have become a preferred approach to address household basic needs in both development and humanitarian programming in recent years. In Somalia, since the 2011 drought, unconditional cash transfers (UCT) have continued to increase as...
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...
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...
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...
An increasing body of research from disaster-affected contexts across the world points to a marked increase in early marriages during and after disasters. This policy brief explores the situation in Mozambique following the devastating cyclones...
This presentation provides an overview of Growth through Nutrition activities to increase access to diverse, safe and quality foods, promote optimal nutrition, WASH, and agriculture behaviors, and improve access to WASH products and services...