February 2019 Newsletter
A compilation of the latest news and resources on early childhood in crisis and displacement
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Lego Foundation and Sesame Street Team Up to Help Refugee Children
NY Times, Dec 2018
In its first major humanitarian project, LEGO Foundation announced that it will provide $100 million over five years to Sesame Workshop to create play-based learning programs for children up to age 6 in Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Bangladesh. Read the article >
Watch the CNN interview > Read the press release >
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ECD and Early Learning for Children in Crisis and Conflict
Moving Minds Alliance, Nov 2018
Drawing from a longer background paper commissioned for the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, this brief highlights the urgent need for early childhood interventions in humanitarian contexts, with a particular focus on early learning opportunities and caregiver support. Read the brief >
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Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies
UNICEF, Jan 2019
In this Child Protection Advocacy Brief, UNICEF calls for collective action to create and sustain positive change for children through key asks for policymakers, donors, national governments, civil society and implementing agencies. Read the brief >
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The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children
American Academy of Pediatrics, Nov 2018
The first-ever policy statement and technical report on children and armed conflict from the AAP offers guidance for clinical health professionals, systems serving children exposed to armed conflict and political advocacy.
Read the policy brief > Read the technical report >
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Contributions of ECD Programming to Sustainable Peace and Development
Early Childhood Peace Consortium, Nov 2018
This brief combines evidence from developmental psychology, health and nutrition, with lessons learned from peacebuilding and social services sectors, to demonstrate how multi-level ECD services have the potential to help reduce the risks of violent conflict.
Read the report >
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Policy Focus 9.1: Providing Early Education and Care for the Displaced
UNESCO/GEMR, Nov 2018
Policy Focus 9.1 of the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report discusses early childhood education and care for displaced and refugee children, including evidence from the background paper co-commissioned by the Moving Minds Alliance. It calls on governments to step up to coordinate scale and provision of ECEC.
Read Policy Focus 9.1 >
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Trends in infant mortality in Venezuela between 1985 and 2016: A systematic analysis of demographic data The Lancet, Jan 2019
Doing More with Less: A New Toolkit for Integration Policy Migration Policy Institute - Europe, Jan 2019
Report on the health of refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region WHO Europe, Jan 2019
Humanitarian Action for Children 2019
UNICEF, Jan 2019
Multidimensional child deprivation in Ethiopia: First National Estimates Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia and UNICEF Ethiopia, Jan 2019
Ready to Help? Improving Resilience of Integration Systems for Refugees and other Vulnerable Migrants OECD, Jan 2019
Impact of adversity on early childhood growth & development in rural India: Findings from the early life stress sub-study of the SPRING cluster randomised controlled trial (SPRING-ELS) PLoS ONE, Jan 2019
Roots and Development of Achievement Gaps: A Longitudinal Assessment in Selected European Countries ISOTIS, Dec 2018
Children and adolescents on the move: what does the Global Compact for Migration mean for their health? The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, Dec 2018
Promoting Refugee Integration in Challenging Times: The Potential of Two-Generation Strategies Migration Policy Institute, Dec 2018
G20's Initiative for Early Child Development
The Lancet, Dec 2018
Safe Schools: The Hidden Crisis Theirworld, Dec 2018
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Displaced in Cities: Experiencing and Responding to Urban Internal Displacement Outside Camps ICRC, Dec 2018
Improving psychosocial services for vulnerable families with young children: strengthening links between health and social services in Germany The BMJ, Dec 2018
Scaling up an early childhood development programme through a national multisectoral approach to social protection: lessons from Chile Crece Contigo The BMJ, Dec 2018
The World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative: Implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding in 84 countries Journal of Public Health Policy, Dec 2018
Survive and Thrive: Transforming care for every small and sick newborn
UNICEF and WHO, Dec 2018
2018 Inter-Agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Settings Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Crises, Nov 2018
Without choice? Understanding war-affected Syrian families’ decisions to leave home International Organization for Migration, Nov 2018
Strengthening resilience: The ICRC’s community-based approach to ensuring the protection of education International Review of the Red Cross, Nov 2018
Seeking Safety, Finding Fear: Syrian Families’ Experiences of (Im)Mobility and the Implications for Children and Family Rights Canadian Journal of Children's Rights, Nov 2018
Crisis in the Central African Republic: In a neglected emergency, children need aid, protection – and a future UNICEF, Nov 2018
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Children in Zaatari camp face challenges growing up in displacement
Euronews, Jan 2018
Correspondent Anelise Borges reports from Jordan's largest refugee camp as Syrian baby number 10,627 is born. Five-year-old Aysar shares what life is like for the children who call Zaatari refugee camp home.
Watch the video >
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Presentation on Childhood Neglect in Humanitarian Action
Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Jan 2018
Authors present the key findings of a literature review on the prevalence, patterns and impacts of child neglect in humanitarian contexts and highlight the recommendations of the recently published report. Watch the presentation > Read the report >
Read the study guide >
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Early Childhood Development Programmes in Conflict Settings
ECDAN/NIEER, Dec 2018
Co-authors Katie Murphy of International Rescue Committee, and Hiro Yoshikawa and Alice J. Wuermli of New York University, share the findings of their investigation on current practices and challenges associated with ECD implementation research in humanitarian settings. Watch the webinar >
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Can play save the world?
Quartz, Dec 2018
This class in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is part of a global experiment to bring play to kids who need it most and usually get it least. Children participate in BRAC's child-centered model at more than 513 “play labs” in Uganda, Tanzania and Bangladesh. Watch the video >
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Neglect in early childhood has deep effects on how body and brain develop
Jacobs Foundation Blog on Learning and Development, Nov 2018
Megan Gunnar, professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, discusses what her research has shown about how the experience of neglect in early childhood shapes the development of the body’s stress system. Watch the video >
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Children and babies die as temperatures plummet in Syria The Guardian, 31 Jan 2019
One in ten children forced from their homes because of violence and conflict in Yemen Save the Children, 31 Jan 2019
Invisible Children by Dominique Nouvian Ouattara Project Syndicate, 31 Jan 2019
Nearly 3,000 children crossed from Guatemala to Mexico since mid-January UNICEF, 30 Jan 2019
Locally made fun in a Ugandan refugee settlement UNICEF, 30 Jan 2019
Novak Djokovic's war memories make him fund childhood research BBC News, 23 Jan 2019
Thousands of Nigerian refugees seek safety in Chad UNHCR, 22 Jan 2019
Innovation in Refugee Children’s Education National Association for the Education of Young Children, 22 Jan 2019
Concrete achievements in 2018 to ensure the protection of refugee and migrant children Council of Europe, 17 Jan 2019
As Venezuela’s denied crisis deepens, local aid groups shift tactics IRIN, 17 Jan 2019
Displaced Syrian infants dying from lack of healthcare, UN says The Guardian, 15 Jan 2019
UNICEF and the Lego Foundation support more than 145,000 children in Jordan to learn through play UNICEF Jordan, 10 Jan 2019
"The world forgot us”: Women and healthcare in ruined Raqqa IRIN, 8 Jan 2019
See the refugee babies born with nowhere to call home National Geographic, 28 Dec 2018
‘No woman has died here while having a baby and that is a big achievement’ The Irish Times, 21 Dec 2018
A moral disaster': AP reveals scope of migrant kids program AP News, 20 Dec 2018
A man-made war paid for by women and children Washington Post, 13 Dec 2018
Life in limbo: the Manus babies who face a stateless future The Guardian, 12 Dec 2018
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Syrian refugee aid plan launched as births in exile hit 1 million UNHCR, 11 Dec 2018
The kindergarten giving hope to refugees in Morocco Al Jazeera, 11 Dec 2018
Coping skills program for disaster survivors tested with children living in chronic poverty Eureka Alert, 10 Dec 2018
“I try to take their pain away through play”: A healing experiment in Rohingya refugee camps Quartz, 8 Dec 2018
Parental migration and the children left behind Jacobs Foundation Blog on Learning and Development, 30 Nov 2018
Children in Migration: Collateral Damage? European Council on Refugees and Exiles, 30 Nov 2018
This is how tear gas affects children CNN, 29 Nov 2018
Zarlasht Halaimzai: Portrait of a GroundBreaker GroundBreakers, 26 Nov 2018
For Starving Children, a Bite of Hope NY Times, 20 Nov 2018
Rebuilding Resilience in the Youngest Refugees Change/Maker, 19 Nov 2018
The Need to Double Down Stanford Social Innovation Review, 15 Nov 2018
A Competition with Many Winners Stanford Social Innovation Review, 15 Nov 2018
How Traumatized Children See the World, According to Their Drawings TIME, 14 Nov 2018
Refugee kids need more than food and shelter. This parenting program helps Apolitical, 14 Nov 2018
Children and migration decisions: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll UNICEF Innocenti, 14 Nov 2018
Implementing parenting programmes in humanitarian crises Humanitarian Practice Network, 13 Nov 2018
Care amid conflict Devex, 9 Nov 2018
Early Childhood Education Win for Asylum Seekers Insights, 7 Nov 2018
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Webinar: Costing Early Childhood Programs
Date: 6 Feb 2019
Organization: ECDAN
Location: Online
Webinar: Promising Futures for Young Children of the World: Insights from ECE Leaders in 105 Countries
Date: 7 Feb 2019
Organizations: World Forum Foundation
Location: Online
Children on the Move: Building Migration Data Capacities
Dates: 20-22 March 2019
Organizations: UNICEF and IOM
Location: Rabat, Morocco
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“Liberté, Égalité, Philanthropie” - EFC 2019 Annual General Assembly and Conference
Dates: 22-24 May 2019
Organization: European Foundation Centre
Location: Paris, France
International Closing Conference: 'Social Inclusion, Education and Urban Policy for Young Children'
Dates: 23-24 May 2019
Organization: Erasmus+ Cities Including Children
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nurturing Environments for the Well-Being of Young Children and Their Families
Dates: 18-19 June 2019
Organization: International Step by Step Association (ISSA)
Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
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