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2023 IDELA Endline Report: BAANA Programme in Wakiso District, Uganda

With a global shift to improve the quality, and not simply the quantity, of education, SCI has developed programs that focus on strengthening school readiness skills among 3–6-year-old children in order that they may be better prepared for and succeed in the beginning years of school. SC Uganda…

Let’s Play! Save the Children and Play: Brief

Play is a right and contributes to outcomes linked to all three of our breakthroughs: learn, survive, protect. This Brief is a teaser to the full Guidance Note – where we look more deeply into what play is and how it might contribute to children’s learning and development outcomes. Want to learn…

Let’s Play! Save the Children and Play: Guidance Note

The purpose of this guidance note is to provide a framework and guidance for Save the Children’s work with play. It focuses primarily on our programmatic work with children, from babies to adolescents and provides content for advocacy work. The final section looks to spark a conversation…

Localisation Bulletin: December 2023

At Save the Children, one of our key enablers of localisation is Partnerships, which is at the heart of our Theory of Change. In our partnership approach, we are moving away from project-based implementing partnerships to strategic partnerships, driven by impact and complementary capabilities. This…

Joint briefing on systems innovation and the Swedish development sector

This briefing captures insights that have emerged through Interaktiv kapacitetsutveckling för systeminnovation i utvecklingssamarbete/ Interactive capacity development for system innovation in development co-operation (IXUS), a partnership among Sida, Rädda Barnen (Save the Children Sweden), and…

Breaking Structural Barriers Achieving the SDGs: Voluntary Mid-Term Review of the SDGs in Nepal

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) National Network Nepal, an open and independent platform comprising civil society major groups and individuals, pursued the Voluntary Mid-Term Review of SDGs (VMTR 2023). The theme of VMTR 2023 was “Breaking Structural Barriers: Achieving the SDGs,” with the…

Economic Case for Investing in Children: Literature review and analysis

This paper provides a review of evidence on the socio-economic case for investing in children. This includes an analysis of both i) the returns associated with investments in children and ii) the costs of inaction in investing in children.

How to implement the Grand Bargain commitments at the country-level?

This was developed by the Grand Bargain Secretariat with the aim to translate the results achieved so far into practical examples of implementation and also to strengthen the linkages with the country-level. The Grand Bargain only makes a difference if we ensure it has an impact on the ground–…

El Costo Beneficio de la Prevención de las Violencias contra Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes en Guatemala desde una Perspectiva Integradora

Fair Shares? Fiscal equity for children in Kenya