Children in displacement

Listen and Learn: Participatory Assessment with Children and Adolescents

This Tool sets out some specific considerations to be taken into account when working with girls and boys. It suggests a new approach to participatory assessments for children and adolescents. It describes the need for an ethical approach to participatory assessment and sets out the elements of such an approach. After providing some tips on…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Toolkit

Access to Play for Children in Situation of Crisis. Synthesis of Research in Six Countries

Very little evidence exists on children’s play in situations of crisis. The IPA research project aims to fill that gap by conducting empirical research in six locations (India, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal, Thailand and Turkey). IPA APC research questions include: How does crisis affect children’s right to play in everyday life? How do children cope with…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

The Integration of Refugees through Participatory Planning in Transitory Spaces: Policy Implications from Conflict Transformation and Urban Planning

The numbers are staggering: according to a recent report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), there are currently an estimated 65.3 million forcibly displaced persons worldwide (UNHCR 2016). Developing countries are on the receiving end of 86% of them, with an estimated 19.5 million refugees worldwide that are housed in UNHCR refugee…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Academic paper

Preventive Mental Health Interventions for Refugee Children and Adolescents in High-Income Settings

This review describes interventions that are delivered to refugee children, interventions with parents and schools, and broader cultural and socioeconomic interventions. The author notes that due to the multidimensional challenges that refugee children face, it is important to do ‘comprehensive psychological interventions’ as well as ‘restoring and supporting the social and physical environment’ so that…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Academic paper

Children in Conflict Situations: Applying Childhood Research with a Focus on the Early Years

This chapter talks about the limited applied research conducted with young children in times of conflict and displacement even thought the impacts on them are very high. Young children’s development is affected, their mental health. Young children are especially at risk when parents or caregivers cannot provide them with adequate protection due to their own…

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Book

Global Parliament of Mayors

The Global Parliament of Mayors is a governance body of, by and for mayors from all continents with a vision to the world in which mayors, their cities and networks are equal partners in building global governance for an inclusive and sustainable world.

Publication year: 2016
Content Type: Other document

Sport for Protection Toolkit: Programming with Young People in Forced Displacement Settings

The toolkit provides an overview of the theory of change for sports for Protection, focuses on three protection outcomes (social inclusion, social cohesion and psychosocial well-being), provides principles for protecting and safeguarding children and young people, and gives detailed and practical steps for planning and implementing Sport for Protection programming.

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Toolkit

Urban Heart: Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool

The Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool (Urban HEART) helps urban policymakers, communities and other stakeholders better understand the local socio-economic factors that influence health outcomes and tackle urban health inequities. The tool serves to identify and correct policies that perpetuate these inequities, for instance, the higher rates of illness and death among the children…

Publication year: 2010
Content Type: Report

Listen to Me: Protecting the Development of Young Children in Armed Conflict

Young children do experience violence, they do try to understand it, and they do remember it. We must pay attention to their reactions to these experiences. We must learn to comprehend the meaning of violence for young children especially when they lack critical language skills which help them to organize their perceptions and express their…

Publication year: 1998
Content Type: Report

Access to Play for Children in Situations of Crisis. Play: Rights and Practice – A Toolkit for Staff, Managers and Policy Makers

This toolkit has been produced to support people and agencies working in crisis situations so that they are better able to understand and support children’s everyday play. It defines situations of crisis as humanitarian, natural and man-made disasters. The toolkit aims to support everyday, community-based play opportunities for children in crisis situations. The toolkit is…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Toolkit

Different Perspectives on Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Unaccompanied Refugee Children and Adolescents

This study aims to investigate the prevalence of emotional and behavioural problems in unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents living in Belgium. A total of 166 unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents, living in different large- and small-scale centres, in foster care or alone, participated in the study. Between 37 and 47% of the unaccompanied refugee youths…

Publication year: 2007
Content Type: Academic paper

Protecting and Supporting Internally Displaced Children in Urban Settings

At the end of 2018, over 17 million children were internally displaced by conflict or violence, and millions more by disasters or other causes. Within a global context of increasing urbanisation, towns and cities are becoming a major refuge for displaced populations, including children. Displaced children and their families in urban settings may find it…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Report

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2017

The Global Trends Report is published every year to analyse the changes in UNHCR’s populations of concern and deepen public understanding of ongoing crises. UNHCR counts and tracks the numbers of refugees, internally displaced people, people who have returned to their countries or areas of origin, asylum-seekers, stateless people and other populations of concern to…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

Teaching About Refugees: Guidance on Working with Refugee Children Struggling with Stress and Trauma

This document provides guidance for teachers working with refugee children. The document presents the different factors that affect children who are exposed to armed conflict and displacement, what symptoms of trauma and stress children of different ages (young children, school children, young adults) display , and how practitioners can help those children. The document provides…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Report

Update: Durable Solutions for Syrian Refugees

The key durable solutions for refugees from Syria are resettlement and complementary pathways of admission to a third country, voluntary return to Syria in safety and dignity, and protection and assistance in countries of asylum. UNHCR is pursuing policy, programmatic and strategic directions across the region to facilitate access to durable solutions while maintaining protection…

Publication year: 2017
Content Type: Report

Living Through and Living On?

In this article, we examine the school project implemented by the architecture charity CatalyticAction in the informal refugee settlement of Jarahieh, in the Bekaa, Lebanon. In doing so, we propose an approach to participatory humanitarian architecture that extends beyond the mere act of designing “together” an “object building.” We see participatory architecture as a process…

Publication year: 2020
Content Type: Academic paper

After the Tsunami in Cooks Nagar: The Challenges of Participatory Rebuilding

In the context of post-disaster reconstruction, there is growing awareness of the need for more integrated inclusive processes that allow people to retake control of their lives, and that ensure practical responses to local conditions. Yet, a range of pressures and challenges conspire to make these approaches appear unworkable. “Participation” in this context, if it…

Publication year: 2008
Content Type: Academic paper

The Influence of the Neighborhood Physical Environment on Early Child Health and Development: A Review and Call for Research

This review examines evidence of the association between the neighbourhood built environment, green spaces and outdoor home area, and early (0-7 years) child health and development. There was evidence that the presence of child relevant neighbourhood destinations and services were positively associated with early child development domains of physical health and wellbeing and social competence.…

Publication year: 2015
Content Type: Academic paper

Community-Based Approaches to MHPSS Programmes: A Guidance Note

Community-based approaches to Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (CB MHPSS) in emergencies are based on the understanding that communities can be drivers for their own care and change and should be meaningfully involved in all stages of MHPSS responses. Emergency-affected people are first and foremost to be viewed as active participants in improving individual and…

Publication year: 2019
Content Type: Toolkit

The Children of Kabul – Discussions with Afghan Families

The study explores three main topics : well-being goals for Afghan children; the threats children face in achieving well-being; and the coping resources children already have for dealing with their difficulties.The findings of the research are relevant for all who seek to provide assistance to Afghan children – and war-affected children worldwide – as they…

Publication year: 2003
Content Type: Report

UnSettlement: Urban Displacement in the 21st Century

The increasingly long-term and intractable nature of displacement, particularly for people in low and middle-income countries, means that camp settings are not a viable option in the long term. In the 21st century urban centres have increasingly become destinations for internally displaced people. This is not a new phenomenon, but its real scale at regional…

Publication year: 2018
Content Type: Report

Block by Block

Block by Block is a global initiative that uses the popular video game Minecraft to involve youth in the planning process in urban areas by giving them the opportunity to show planners and decision makers how they would like to see their cities in the future. The project is a collaboration between Mojang, the creators…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Other document

The Implementation of UNHCR’S Policy on Refugee Protection and Solutions in Urban Areas

Since the publication of its 2009 policy on urban refugees, UNHCR policy on refugee protection and solutions in urban areas, the topic of urban refugees has become increasingly prominent amongst humanitarian actors. It is widely acknowledged that refugees are more often ﬂeeing to cities instead of camps. The body of literature on urban refugees is…

Publication year: 2012
Content Type: Report

Psychosocial Intervention for War-Affected Children in Sierra Leone

PLAN international and UNESCO worked on a psychosocial pilot project to normalise ‘displaced children’s lives and alleviate psychological distress by participating in non formal education, trauma healing and recreation activities’. A psychosocial assessment study was conducted with 8-17 year-old displaced children in Sierra Leone to assess emotional and mental health of the children after the…

Publication year: 2008
Content Type: Academic paper

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