This paper provides a very good understanding of the CHAST approach with its development and tools.
The aim of this pamphlet is to inform parents and guardians of supports and services available for children and young people who are blind or have a visual impairment.
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created a global and gendered crisis that is compounding existing inequalities and disproportionately affecting girls and women. Emerging evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 shows school closures, disruptions in essential services and rising
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poverty contributed to girls’ increased risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). School closures limited the monitoring and reporting of cases of FGM. Rising household monetary poverty may have contributed to families adopting negative coping mechanisms, including having girls undergo FGM as a precursor to marriage to reduce household costs. A report from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates 2 million additional cases of FGM by 2030 due to the pandemic.
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The aim of this pamphlet is to inform parents and guardians of supports and services available for children and young people with a physical disability and their families.
Globally, some 72 million children are out of school due to emergencies and
protracted crises. Of these, at least 17% are children with disabilities.1 Yet,
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education in a crisis context can be a
lifeline for children, providing psychosocial support, access to school feeding and health programmes, and a much-needed safe space where they can interact with peers and maintain the routine of learning
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Asthma is chronic inflammation of the airways in the lungs.
In asthma, the airways in the lung narrow due to swelling of
the mucosa, increased mucus production, and spasm of the airways.
The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) has proved remarkably tenacious, despite attempts spanning nearly a century to eliminate it. Nevertheless, a number of countries have seen some declines in the practice – at least up until the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of which is yet to be fully
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understood. Other changes in FGM are also evident. These include shifts in attitudes and in the ways the procedure is being carried out.
As the world rallies to accelerate progress against FGM, understanding what drives change in how people think about the practice and act is key to its elimination. Education is one such driver. It is an important mechanism to increase awareness of the dangers of FGM and of groups that do not practise it. Education also fosters questioning and discussion and provides opportunities for individuals to take on social roles that are not dependent on the practice of FGM for acceptance.
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Achieving education for all in Ethiopia will remain a distant aspiration if most of the 5 million children with special educational needs in the country cannot go to school. Since 2014, Handicap Int
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ernational have been supporting 49 schools to become places where everyone has a role to play in making schools more inclusive.
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This report is based on research—including 37 interviews with people in Iran, including children with disabilities, parents of children with disabilities, activists and government officials—cond
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ucted by Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI, formerly the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran) between June 2016 and July 2018, as well as additional research by CHRI between August 2018 to March 2019.
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The INEE Minimum Standards Handbook is the only global tool that articulates the minimum level of educational quality and access in emergencies through to recovery. The Minimum Standards express a commitment that all individuals—children, youth an
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d adults—have a right to education. The aim of the Handbook is 1) to enhance the quality of educational preparedness, response and recovery; 2) to increase access to safe and relevant learning opportunities for all learners, regardless of their age, gender or abilities; and 3) to ensure accountability and strong coordination in the provision of education in emergencies through to recovery.
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Guidance on Disability Inclusion for GBV Partners in Lebanon
LEARNING ELEMENTS of this unit: How has the pandemic affected children? What barriers do children face in accessing education during COVID-19? How
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considering child rights can better the situation for children? What can be done for keeping children safe?
Jesuit Worldwide Learning invites you to learn facts and test your knowledge on the ongoing pandemic caused by Coronavirus (COVID 19) through a fun-interactive crash course! Access is free! You have only to sign up
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Children are at high risk of dog bites and contracting rabies. Forty percent of reported rabies cases worldwide are children under the age of fifteen. In our project areas, the proportion of
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children dying is often even higher. Rabies most often persists in poor communities and rural regions of developing countries in Africa and Asia. If the risks are widely understood and appropriate dog bite treatment is well known – rabies is 100% preventable.
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Given that only 1.52 million of the 8.75 million people living with type 1 diabetes around the world in 2022 were less than 20 years old, the lack of data available for adult populations presents a stark gap in the research. Without rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment, type 1 diabetes leads to
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diabetic ketoacidosis and rapid death, making awareness and education about the condition critical.
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To survive and thrive, children and adolescents need good health, adequate nutrition, security, safety and a supportive clean environment, opportunities for early learning and education, responsive
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relationships and connectedness, and opportunities for personal autonomy and self-realization. To promote their health and wellbeing, children and adolescents need support from parents, families, communities, surrounding institutions, and an enabling environment. Scheduled well care visits provide a critical opportunity for support of individual children, adolescents, parents, caregivers and families promote health and wellbeing. This guidance on scheduled child and adolescent well-care visits is the first in a series of publications to support the operationalization of the comprehensive agenda for child and adolescent health and wellbeing. It provides guidance on what is required to strengthen health systems and services to ensure healthy growth and development of all children and adolescents, and to support their parents and caregivers
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This report was prepared for a research symposium on young children in refugee families, held at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) on February 25, 2015, with the support from the Foundation for Child Development (FCD). This series explores the we
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ll-being and development of children from birth to age 10 in refugee families, across a range of disciplines, including child development, psychology, sociology, health, education, and public policy.
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“There’s a big risk that inequalities in education will widen,” said Rebecca Telford, education chief for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. She noted that while many countries have acted quickly t
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o roll out distance learning programmes, there have been few targeted interventions to ensure they are accessible for refugees.
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This manual is intended for mid-level rehabilitation workers on work with children with communication difficulties and their families. The manual contains information on general aspects of communication, causes of communication impairment, sample as
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sessments, and advice for parents and those involved in the training of health and education workers. You can download section by section from the website
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