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While the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people is generally well documented and understood, considerably less attention has been given to the dynamic between HIV/AIDS and armed conflict and their joint impact on children. Conflict creates and exacerbates the conditions – and the human rights abuses – in which the HIV/AIDS crisis flourishes.
This fact sheet documents some of the links between conflict and HIV/AIDS, including the disintegration of communities, the separation of children from their families, rape and sexual violence, and the destruction of schools, communication…
WHAT: Training materials on the threats to children’s development from displacement and armed conflict and other emergency situations. It includes guidance on strategies to promote children’s development in adverse conditions.
WHO: Trainers, Senior managers, sector coordinators, and field staff working with children in or affected by emergencies and/or displacement.
WHERE: This tool is particularly relevant for emergency settings.
WHY: Provides useful training tools, including exercises,…
WHAT: A training resource pack on skills for working effectively with children, particularly children in distress. It provides an introduction to communicating with children, and psychosocial interventions guarding the well-being of children affected by conflict.
WHO: Trainers, social and community workers, managers and field staff working with children in distress, in or affected by emergencies and/or displacement.
WHERE: Globally relevant however regional or country-specific adaptation of materials…
This study was commissioned by UNICEF, the International Save the Children Alliance and the Government of Rwanda. Following the genocide and civil war in 1994, fostering has been promoted by the Government and by agencies as the preferred option for younger separated children unable to return to the care of their own families. Although responsibility for the care of children is traditionally shared within the extended family and with close friends, care by strangers has not been common. Approximately 1 200 children have been fostered by agencies (referred to as “formal” or “agency” fostering…
UNHCR is mandated by the United Nations to lead and co-ordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems. In seeking to devise lasting solutions to refugees’ plight, it has been generally agreed that the approach of community mobilisation should be integrated into all phases of emergency relief. The consultation and participation of the communities in the planning and operation of projects will reflect the needs and concerns of the community, will draw on and make good use of the resources of the community, and will enhance the…
The Field Guide to Child Soldier Programs in Emergencies is intended for Save the Children staff and partners designing and implementing either a program focused fully on child soldiers, or a child soldiers-focused component of a broader program for war-affected children. This field guide is meant to be useful both for staff that have limited experience with child soldier programming and for experienced staff that wish to improve their understanding of particular aspects of child soldier programs.
The field guide is composed of five parts and two appendices, supplemented by a CD-ROM with…
This survey highlights efforts to disarm, demobilize and reintegrate former child soldiers in Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Kosovo, analyzing them in terms of policy and legal issues, political context and program implementation. The special needs facing the former child soldiers are discussed along with political situation and child protection in each country. Conclusion, lessons learned, challenges and recommendations are presented at the end of the survey.
This survey stresses that disarmament; demobilization and reintegration programs need to…
Children and adolescents are not short adults - they are qualitatively different. They have physical, psychological and social needs that must be met to enable healthy growth and development. The extent to which parents, the family, the community and the society are able to meet these developmental needs (or not) has long-term consequences for the kinds of adults they will become. Armed conflict, displacement, disruption of normal life, and separation from family and/or community can have powerful, long-lasting effects that need to be compensated for in protection and assistance interventions…
In today's humanitarian crises, civilians face ever more attacks and targeting by perpetrators of violence. And amongst these civilians — largely women and children — youth seem to have been forgotten in humanitarian priorities. Caught somewhere between their young childhood and full adulthood, youth struggle with their own identity as they watch the social fabric collapse around them: homes are destroyed, communities are divided by violence, and their own hopes for a better future are crushed.
Years of experience have shown that youth tend to fall between the cracks during emergencies:…
In armed conflicts, women can be deprived of their liberty for reasons that are either directly related to the conflict or that have nothing to do with it; they can be held in custody for ordinary crimes unrelated to the hostilities, whether committed prior to or during the armed conflict. But the issues raised by the detention of women rarely feature in public discourse or articles on women and war. Media images of detainees usually portray men languishing behind bars or barbed wire. Yet the ICRC visits and has registered several thousand women (and girls) detained in relation to armed…