February 3, 2010
Neil Boothby’s Miami Herald OpEd
Posted in: Homepage feature

See the published version here Miami Herald, February 15th, 2010.
From the Spanish Civil War to the Genocide in Rwanda to the Asian Tsunami, outsiders have used tragedy as an occasion to evacuate girls and boys out of their homelands, usually with dire consequences. We see history repeating itself yet again in Haiti as international actors [...]

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January 11, 2010
What are we learning about protecting children in the community?
Posted in: CPC News, Homepage feature

Mike Wessells, the Save the Children Alliance, and a Reference Group comprised of members from the Oak Foundation, PULIH Indonesia, UNICEF, USAID-DCOF, and WorldVision International, have published a global, inter-agency review of the effectiveness of community-based child protection mechanisms.
Click here to download the Executive Summary.
Click here to download the Full Report.
From the Introduction of the [...]

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December 14, 2009
Long-term well-being of Palestinian Youth project funded by the Jacobs Foundation
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Brian Barber, director of the Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence at the University of Tennessee, and CPC Learning Network Global Technical Group convener, has received a $1 million grant from the Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland to study the long-term well-being of Palestinian youth.
The project will allow Barber to build on the [...]

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November 23, 2009
Inter-Agency Resource Kit to Capture Key Child Protection Concerns
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The CPC is currently involved in the piloting and roll-out of the Inter-Agency Emergency Child Protection Resource Kit, an initiative of the Child Protection Working Group, with funding from UNICEF. Courtney Blake, a member of the Care and Protection of Children in Crisis-Affected Countries (CPC) Learning Network, has just returned from a pilot site in [...]

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November 13, 2009
“Grave Violations” Survey in Central African Republic
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Professor Les Roberts and research assistants Kathleen Myer and Alina Potts conducted a nationwide survey of children’s rights violations in the Central African Republic (CAR) in collaboration with UNICEF.  The survey examined the “grave violations” of children’s rights that are to be monitored in selected conflicts according to the UN Security Council Resolution 1612, [...]

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September 11, 2009
Featured Partner: The CYES Network
Posted in: Homepage feature | Tagged with: Livelihoods, Partners

The Children, Youth and Economic Strengthening (CYES) Network is an effort, grounded in a series of partnerships across non-profit organizations, donor agencies and academics, to build a body of knowledge on effective economic strengthening programming for children and youth. It was formed in 2004, in response to a USAID workshop on supporting orphans [...]

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September 2, 2009
Establishment of an Early Childhood Care and Development Network in Sri Lanka
Posted in: In the spotlight | Tagged with: Early Childhoold, ECCD, Sri Lanka

by: Nanditha Hettitantri
September 2, 2009 — In Sri Lankan Context, the ‘Early Childhood’ is defined as the period of the child’s life from the conception to age five. All children are born with capabilities and competencies, which need support and care of the adults to develop to its full potential [...]

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August 23, 2009
Mapping Needs, Tracking Progress: A Skills Training Workshop in Gulu, Uganda
Posted in: From the Field | Tagged with: Evaluation, Methods, PLG, Save the Children, Uganda

By: Alastair Ager

August saw the rollout of the first CPC Learning Network methods training workshop. Held in Gulu, Northern Uganda it was delivered in collaboration with the Program Learning Group established with support from PFMH and Save the Children last year. Participants for the workshop, ‘Assessing Needs, Mapping [...]

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June 17, 2009
Sexual Violence in War Hauled Out of the Shadows
Posted in: In the spotlight

By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON, Jun 16 (IPS) – On Jun. 19, 2008, the U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 1820, expressly addressing the problems of sexual violence in conflict situations. One year later, three experts in the field gathered to speak at the United States Institute of Peace to evaluate the implementation of 1820 and consider how [...]

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April 5, 2009
Early Childhood Care and Development in Emergencies Global Technical Group Shares Learning at the Inter Agency Network for Education in Emergencies Network Annual Consultation
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The Early Childhood Care and Development in Emergencies Global Technical Group (ECCD GTG) participated in the Inter Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Annual Consultation that took place in Istanbul in early April, 2009. This Annual Consultation was an opportunity for the ECCD GTG to discuss ECCD implications to programming and Monitoring and Evaluation [...]

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