International Save the Children Alliance
International Publications
This list only includes publications that have International Save the Children Alliance status.
UN World Summit and Millenium Development Goals
UN World Summit and Millenium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals are a list of eight targets, intended to reduce global poverty. The goals were agreed by an international consensus of experts in 2000 and all 191 member countries of the United Nations have pledged to meet these goals by the year 2015. As well as the eight goals there are eighteen specific targets and forty-eight indicators in order to track the progress of each goal. Read related material.
General Publications
Advocacy Matters: Helping Children Change Their World; a Save the Children Alliance Guide to Advocacy
The first Alliance advocacy guide is now available for Alliance Members to use. These guides represent the collective wealth and experience in advocacy, communication and capacity building from within six of our Alliance members, as well as the wisdom and knowledge of outside experts.
Participant's Manual [PDF, 2.16Mb]
Facilitator's Manual [PDF, 4.55Mb]
Legislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
The High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched a major new study on Child Rights Convention together with Save the Children Sweden. This document is unique since it contains the records of all meetings during a ten-year period, up to and including the date when the United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child was approved in 1989. To purchase the book please visit http://shop.rb.se/default.aspx?shop=ENG.
UN study on violence against children
Global Submision by the International Save the Children Alliance. Ten essential learning points. Listen and Speak out against Sexual Abuse of Girls and Boys [2541 Kb]
Forgotten Casualites of War
This report shows how girls are being overlooked incurrent efforts to release children from armed groupsand support their return home. It challenges existingsystems and argues that the international communitymust fund programmes designed to meet girls’ needs.This means focusing on strengthening communities. [617 Kb]International Save the Children Alliance
United Nations Study on Violence against Children: Concept Paper
This paper tells you about the United Nations (UN) Study on Violence against Children. It is written for children and young people aged 12 to 18, and can also be used to talk with younger children about the Study. It is a child-friendly version of the ‘concept paper’ for the Study. [983 Kb]
International Save the Children Alliance
A Last Resort: The Growing Concern about Children in Residential Care
Save the Children position on the residential care of children globally (2003) [98 Kb]
Child Protection Policy
Policy that sets out Save the Children's commitment to the prevention of child abuse and the protection of children (May 2003) [44 Kb]
Children's Rights: A Second Chance
A review of last decade at the impact that local, national and international policies and a proposed practical framework for the future (September 2001) [1067 Kb]
Children's Rights: Reality or Rhetoric?
An analysis of the implementation of the children's rights in the first decade since the near universal ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in November 1989 (1999). The publication can be ordered from Plymbridge Distributions Ltd.
Gender Equity Policy
Save the Children challenges all forms of discrimination, especially that based on sex, age, social class, disability, HIV status, sexual preference, religion, race and ethnicity (1999) [58 Kb]
National Plans of Action for Children: A Summary Guide
Explains how governments will work to implement National Plans of Action for Children (September 2002) [90 Kb]
National Plans of Action for Children: Summary Guide for Governments
A report on the views of young people in 14 countries on how their governments should implement their National Plans of Action (2003) [30 Kb]
National Plans of Action for Children: Summary Guide for Civil Society
A report on the views of young people in 14 countries on how their societies should support children and young people's involvement in the National Plans of Action (2003) [28 Kb]
National Plans of Action for Children: Summary Guide for Young People
A guide for young people, explaining National Plans of Action for Children (2003) [70 Kb]
Promoting Children's Participation in the UN Global Study on Violence against Children
How to carry out effective child participation in the UN Global Study on Violence Against Children (September 2003) [74 Kb]
So You Want to Consult with Children?
A toolkit of good practice: how to get started, organise a consultation, ensure quality follow up and more (November 2003) [1226 Kb]
French and Spanish versions are also available.
So You Want to Involve Children in Research
A toolkit supporting children's meaningful and ethical participation in research relating to violence against children (2004) [617 Kb]
State of the World's Mothers 2004
Focus on the tens of millions of girls around the world who marry and have babies while they are still children themselves. Includes Annual Mothers Index & Early Motherhood Risk Ranking.
2002 United Nations Special Session on Children
A young person's guide that explains the 2002 United Nations Special Session on Children. [267 Kb]
2002 United Nations Special Session: Lessons Learned
Save the Children's learnings from supporting children’s participation during this event, including the selection of under 18 representatives, child protection, translation and interpretation issues and work with the media. [939 Kb]
French version is also available.
Education
Basic Education Principles
Save the Children's policy on education (November 1998) [45 Kb]
Read our Policy Brief on Protecting Children in Emergencies
The Power and Promise of Girls’ Education: Read our State of the World's Mothers 2005 report
Together We Play and Learn (English) [18 MB] (Arabic) [14 MB]
Focussing on children affected by armed conflict, this is a guide to give parents, carers and teachers ideas for creative play and ways of supporting the development of young children. Based on Save the Children experience in the occupied Palestinian Territories.
HIV/AIDS
HIV and Conflict: A Double Emergency
Save the Children calls upon governments, donors and humanitarian agencies to uphold children's rights and channel resources into preventing the "double emergency" of HIV/AIDS and armed conflict (2002) [293 Kb]
Beyond the Targets
Ensuring children benefit from expanded access to HIV/AIDS treatments. [169 Kb]
Save the Children UK
Bottlenecks and Drip-Feeds
Channelling resources to communities responding to orphans and vulnerable children in Southern Africa. [178 Kb]
Save the Children UK
Facing the Crisis
Supporting children through positive care options. [138 Kb]
Save the Children UK
Building Resilience
A rights-based approach to children and HIV/AIDS in Africa. [831 Kb]
Save the Children Sweden
Tell Me More!
Children's rights and sexuality in the context of HIV/AIDS in Africa. [600 Kb]
Save the Children Sweden
Child Participation
12 Lessons Learned from Children's Participation in the UN General Assembly Special session on Children
Save the Children's learnings from supporting children’s participation during this event, including the selection of under 18 representatives, child protection, translation and interpretation issues and work with the media. [939 Kb]
Creating a Process Fit for Children
Children and Young People’s Participation in the Preparations for the UN Special Session on Children [804 Kb]
Seen & Heard
This report presents the results of a research evaluation of the participation of children in the East Asia and Pacific region in events and processes connected to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children in May 2002. The research covers the period from January 2000 to May 2003, and considers not only the Special Session but also the Fifth and Sixth Regional Ministerial Consultations, together with preparatory processes that took place in the region, in which Save the Children collaborated intensively with other organizations and partners. [Compressed Adobe PDF, 800 Kb]
This report can also be ordered in CD & Book format from Thitikorn Trayaporn .
Global Meeting on Children’s Participation: Proceedings
Save the Children’s global meeting on children's participation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The main aim of the meeting was to agree the strategic direction for Save the Children’s future work on children’s participation. 16-18 June 2003 [209 Kb]
Promoting Children's Meaningful & Ethical Participation in the UN Global Study on Violence against Children
A short guide for members of the NGO Advisory Panel and others [74 Kb]
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So You Want to Consult with Children? A Toolkit of Good Practice
Includes information on how to get started, organising a consultation, planning a preparatory meeting with and for children, having children on your delegation, the role of adults in creating an enabling environment, ensuring quality follow up and guides to other resources. [1226 Kb]
International Save the Children Alliance
So You Want to Involve Children in Research
A toolkit supporting children's meaningful and ethical participation in research relating to violence against children. (2004) [617 Kb]
International Save the Children Alliance
Children and Young People As Citizens for Social Change (1)
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Children and Young People as Citizens: Partners for Social Change (2)
[1597 Kb]
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Stregthening Child-led Organisations (English)
Report from the 2002 UN Special Session [582 Kb]
French and Spanish versions are also available
Children’s Participation and Policy Change
CHIP Working Paper [801 Kb]
Children and Young People Participating in Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) Processes
Learning from experience [76 Kb]
Save the Children UK
Good Practice in Working Children’s Participation
A case study from Bangladesh, prepared for the Save the Children Alliance Task Group on Children and Work [163 Kb]
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A Tool for Change?
Reporting to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child [435 Kb]
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A Workshop Report on Child Participation in the UN Study on Violence Against Children
[1244 Kb]
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Regional Learning
Sample learnings from the Southeast East Asia & Pacific region (see website).
Learning to Work Together [Compressed Adobe PDF, 384 Kb]
Opening Minds, Opening Up Opportunities: Children's Participation in Action for Working Children [Compressed Adobe PDF, 236 Kb]
French and Spanish versions are also available
International Save the Children Alliance
From Strength To Strength
Children's initiatifves and organisations in South and Central Asia
Exploitation and Abuse
Visible Evidence – Forgotten Children
"Visible Evidence – Forgotten Children” reveals serious gaps in the protection of sexually abused children whose abuse has been filmed or photographed and distributed over the Internet. (October 2006) [256 Kb]
Children and Work
A framework for Save the Children programmes which address the issue of children and work. Save the Children seeks to ensure that girls and boys are protected against harmful work. We accept neither blanket bans of all child work nor an approach which unequivocally promotes children's work (March 2003) [98 Kb]
Corporal Punishment
Save the Children's position on the issue of corporal punishment. Save the Children's aim is to end all corporal punishment of children. This may be achieved through education, legal reform, advocacy and children's participation (April 2003) [76 Kb]
Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
All children have the right to be protected and removed from sexually exploitative situations and provided with support and recovery assistance(September 2003) [70 Kb]
Conflict and Disaster
Child Protection in Emergencies Position Paper
This paper presents Save the Children's agreed definition of child protection, and our 5 priority areas of work of child protection in emergencies. it also outlines the principles that guide our work in this area and our fundamental approches, and includes a reference section which lists tools, guidelines and other material helpful to practitioners and policy makers. (2008) [365 Kb]
Community Based Care for Separated Children
A series of critical issues for those who wish to promote and protect the best interests of the separated child.
Child Landmine Survivors: An Inclusive Approach to Policy and Practice
An outline of the effects of landmines on children in conflict situations and explanation of some of the policy approaches (2002) [609 Kb]
Children in Hostilities: Use and Recruitment of Children
Save the Children's position on those aged under 18 years old taking part, directly or indirectly, in any armed conflict (2000) [83 Kb]
Together We Play and Learn (English) [18 MB] (Arabic) [14 MB]
Focussing on children affected by armed conflict, this is a guide to give parents, carers and teachers ideas for creative play and ways of supporting the development of young children. Based on Save the Children experience in the occupied Palestinian Territories.