Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins: Workshop Summary

Rapporteur; Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally; Board on Global Health; Board on Children, Youth, & Families; Health & Medicine Division; Division of Behavioral & Social Sciences & Education; National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine

To examine the science, economics, and politics of investing in the health, education, nutrition, and social protection of children at the margins, the Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally (iYCG Forum) held a workshop in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 3–4, 2015, titled, “Reaching and Investing in Children at the Margins.” This report summarizes the workshop and highlights the key learning from the event.

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“Adapting to learn, learning to adapt:" Overview of and considerations for child protection systems strengthening in emergencies

Child Frontiers on behalf of the Systems Strengthening and Disaster Risk Reduction Task Force - co-led by the CPC Learning Network and Plan International

The aims of this document are to: 1. Provide an overview of child protection systems strengthening in emergencies practice to date, and based on this, 2. Propose certain key considerations with regards to systems for child protection practitioners. 

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Doha Call to Action

Doha International Family Institution – International Conference

This is a Call to Action issued by the Doha International Family Institute commemorating the International Year of the Family.  

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Economic Strengthening for Vulnerable Children: Resource Guide

Gareth Evans, Margaret Richards, Candace Nelson, Mary McVay, Terrence Isert, NtongiMcFadyen, Malini Tolat, Waddington Chinogwenya, Reid Hamel, Karl Frey, Andrew Tulchin and Sunny Yi-Han Lin with collaborations between and contributions from USAID’s LIFT

This is a resource guide designed for PEPFAR implementing partners to help them effectively design and implement economic strengthening activities for vulnerable children. The guide lists gender, age, social inclusion, conflict, accessibility, chronic illness, and environment as reasons that certain children and households are vulnerable.

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Programs and Services to help Foster Care Leavers during their Transition to Adulthood: A Study Comparing Chicago (Illinois) to Barcelona (Catalonia)

Josefina Sala-Roca, Laura Arnau, Mark E. Courtney, Amy Dworsky

This study compares programs and services that support youth in care during their transition to adulthood and independent living in Chicago, USA to those in Barcelona, Spain.

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Every Last Child: The children the world chooses to forget

Faiza Shaheen, Jonathan Glennie, Amanda Lenhardt, José Manuel Roche and Lucia Cizmaziova - Save the Children

This report tells the story of “forgotten children,” children who are relegated to the margins of society due to discrimination and subjected to the hardships of poverty. The report is aimed at identifying what is required to meet the needs of these children and to ensure their basic rights to survive and thrive, to learn, and to be protected.

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