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A FAMILIAR FACE: Violence in the lives of children and adolescents

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (2017)

This report presents the most current data on four specific forms of violence – violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence. The statistics reveal that ... more

Global issue of unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights

UN Human Rights Council (2016) CC

Progress report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/33/53) (Advance edited version)

CBR Workers’ Training Needs for People with Communication Disability

Yeap, C.E., Ibrahim, H., Van Dort, S., et al. Disability, CBR & Inclusive Development Journal (DCIDJ) (2016) CC

This study, although not generalizable, builds up the literature on worker training needs in developing countries, and would be of benefit for speech-language pathologists and worker trainers. This paper aimed to investigate the training ... more

Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

Caroline Hickman, Elizabeth Marks, Panu Pihkala et al. The Lancet Planetary Health (2021) CC

Climate change has important implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, making them vulnerable to climate anxiety. This is the first large-scale investigation of climate anxiet ... more

Nutritional Anthropometric Survey: Children from 6 to 59 months, Accham District, Nepal

Helene Schwartz, ACF International Network (2008) C1

On Life Support - A battered health system leaves DRC children at the mercy of killer diseases

UNICEF (2020) C1

ON LIFE SUPPORT3The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has been contained, but confl ict and under-development leave over three million children at risk from measles and other killer diseases. The country’s medical services – ill-eq ... more

What Are We Learning About Protecting Children in the Community? An inter-agency review of the evidence on community-based child protection mechanisms in humanitarian and development settings

Mike Wessells Save the Children (2008) CC

How to respond to, mitigate, and prevent risks to children’s protection and well-being is a profound, if unanswered, question. Practitioners agree that it is necessary to develop or strengthen protective factors at multiple levels, such as the fam ... more

The War on Children: Time to End Violations Against Children in Armed Conflict

Mariam Kirollos, Caroline Anning, Gunvor Knag Fylkesnes et al. Save the Children (2018) C1

Advice to Parents. Supporting your children through the COVID-19 lockdown

Ministry of Health, South Africa (2020) CC

The Department of Basic Education recognises the need to help parents and guardians get through this lockdown period as effectively as possible. This simple set of guidelines is designed to provide advice and strategies to help parents support their childr ... more

The State Of The World’S Children 2013: Executive Summary - Children with Disabilities

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2013)

The State of the World’s Children 2013: Children with Disabilities examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility in official statistics to viciou ... more

The Burden of Orphans and Vulnerable Children Due to HIV/AIDS in Cameroon

D. S. Nsagha; A.-C. ZK Bissek; S. M. Nsagha; et al. The Open AIDS Journal; PubMed (2012) CC

The Open AIDS Journal, 2012, 6, 245-258

Eastern Africa: El Niño impact and humanitarian needs (as of December 2015)

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2015) C1

Addressing violence against children, women and older people during the covid-19 pandemic: Key actions

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

Several countries affected by COVID-19, have seen increases in levels of violence occurring in the home, including violence against children, intimate partner violence and violence against older people. Countries also face increasing challenges in m ... more

The Paris Principles: Principles and Guidelines on Children associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2007) C1

The recruitment and use of children violates their rights and causes them physical, developmental, emotional, mental, and spiritual harm. The impact on their mental and physical well-being breaches the most fundamental human rights and represents a ... more

Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical analysis of violence against children

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2014)

Interpersonal violence – in all its forms – has a grave effect on children: Violence undermines children’s future potential; damages their physical, psychological and emotional well-being; and ... more

Disclosure Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in the context of HIV, TB and non-communicable diseases

National Department of Health South Africa; PATA (2016) C2

The state of the world's children 2013: CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - Nutrition

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (2017)

UNICEF’s 2013 flagship report, The State of the World’s Children, focuses on Children with Disabilities. The report covers a range of thematic areas and attempts to contribute to the global disc ... more

Form 4.1: Home Visit Checklist for Supervisors of CHWs, Mothers and for Children of All Ages, Negotiating for Behaviour Change

UK Aid, IMA World Health (2021) CC

This document is a checklist CHW supervisors can use to ensure that CHWs are implementing high quality home visits.

The Humanitarian Emergency Settings Perceived Needs Scale (HESPER)

World Health Organization WHO (2011) C_WHO

Manual with Scale