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5 Years of Pneumonia Vaccination in Bangladesh
Over 48 million Pneumonia vaccinations have been provided for children since 2015 since the inclusion of Pneumococcal Vaccine (PCV) in Government’s routine Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) in March 2015. Save the Children and its partners have ...
Read moreViolence against Women and Girls in Bangladesh: Barriers to legal recourse and support
Women and girls in Bangladesh are facing increased domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is highlighting pre-existing systemic barriers to legal recourse, protection, and social services. This crisis comes as Bangladesh marks the anniversaries ...
Read moreThe Legal Framework for Child Protection in South Asia
Every child has the right to be protected from violence under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). All countries in South Asia are state parties to the UNCRC, and are thereby obliged to undertake all appropriate legislative ...
Read moreGuardians of the Planet: Asia Pacific children and youth voices on climate crisis and disaster risk reduction
The worldwide youth movement that brought over 10 million people to the streets in September 2019, is calling on people across the world to take part in ‘climate strikes’. In Asia and the Pacific, from August 2019 to January 2020, a total of 9,681 ...
Read moreImproving Early Childhood Education in Rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh has made significant progress in expanding access to education over the last decade. For example, the country has achieved near-universal primary school enrolment. However, more than half the children who complete primary education are unable ...
Read moreChild Marriage in Humanitarian Settings in South Asia: Study results from Bangladesh and Nepal
There are estimated to be 285 million child brides in South Asia. Child marriages can result in serious violations of human rights as it prevents the child from having a childhood where it can play and be protected. Although the child marriage rates ...
Read moreAccess to Social Protection in Syhlet, Bangladesh
This study was undertaken to examine the coverage of social protection schemes in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and to analyse what barriers poor and vulnerable people face in accessing such schemes. The target area was chosen based on it being the operational ...
Read more"No Happy Ever After": What children really think about child marriage in humanitarian crises
‘No Happily Ever After’ is new research that raises the voices and views of the children and young people who are affected by the issue of child marriage in countries facing a humanitarian crisis. The report also draws on the voices of children ...
Read moreChild Marriage Practices Among the Rohingya in Bangladesh
Child marriage is a significant threat faced by millions of girls each year. Marriage at young ages can pose multiple threats to young girls’ lives, health, and future prospects, including an increased risk of intimate partner violence, higher maternal ...
Read moreLiving in Chains: Shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people, both adult and children around the globe with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives. Inadequate support and mental health services, as well as stigma concerning people with psychosocial ...
Read moreSponsorship Programs Annual Report 2019
Sponsorship Programs contribute to Save the Children’s vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. In 2019 Sponsorship administered $53 million of lifeenhancing programs that directly ...
Read moreStrengthening Community Engagement and Local Government Support to Improve Community Health Care Programs
The purpose of this policy brief is to inform discussions and decisions at the national and local levels in Bangladesh regarding why community and government support is essential to improve community health programming. This brief summarizes recent programming ...
Read moreGuidance Note on Remote Child Protection Case Management (CM): Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
During infectious disease outbreaks like the COVID-19 pandemic, many humanitarian agencies consider remote child protection case management (CM) approaches. However, a considerable amount of preparation, planning and adaptation is needed to deal with ...
Read moreAdvocating for National Community Health Workforce Strategy in Bangladesh
Save the Children advocated for and led the development of a Community Health Worker Strategy 2019-2030 in Bangladesh. This publication shares the background of the process, the history of community health workers in Bangladesh, and how Save the Children ...
Read moreElevating Evidence: Localisation in the 2019 Bangladesh flood response
The report analyses progress in seven areas: leadership, coordination and complementarity, partnerships, funding, participation and policy influence. It also identifies emerging positive practices that support localization, key challenges, and considerations ...
Read moreChildren and Young People’s Voices in Times of COVID-19: Voices of children and young people in the United Kingdom (Milton Keynes) and World Vision International’s young leaders programme
This research is part of World Vision’s global campaign ‘It Takes A World to End Violence Against Children’ which seeks to see an end to all forms of violence against children everywhere. We gathered 110 children and young people online from 14 ...
Read moreFunding for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Programming: Bangladesh case study
Evidence shows that women and girls are disproportionately impacted by disasters and conflict. These crises affect their life expectancy, education, maternal health, livelihoods, nutrition, as well as the levels of violence they experience. At the same ...
Read moreChild Protection Risks During COVID-19
Throughout the world children are facing heightened protection risks due to the COVID-19, this is especially true for Rohingya children living in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. Since the beginning of the pandemic services and support systems for children ...
Read moreFamily Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Bangladesh
This fact sheet provides details about Save the Children's reproductive health programming for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Read moreFighting for Breath in Bangladesh 2020: A call to action to stop children dying from pneumonia
Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year, more than 2,000 every day. It is a shocking demonstration of pervasive health inequities disproportionately ...
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