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Displacement Profiling in Urban Areas: Methodological Approaches for Collecting and Analysing Data on Internal Displacement in Cities

This report shows that urban settings pose particular constraints that affect obtaining up-to-date and representative data on displaced people. These constraints can be logistical such as resource constraints and security risks for data collection teams, or political such as bringing different stakeholders together and enabling trust in the results, or technical such as deciding on…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report
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A Framework for Organizing the Tools and Techniques of Participatory Design

This guide provides a detailed and comprehensive collection of tools and strategies to be used in Participatory Design and co-design sessions. The field of Participatory Design (PD) has grown rapidly over the last 20 to 30 years. For more than two decades non-designers have been increasingly involved in various design activities through a large number…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Toolkit
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Child Development in the Context of Disaster, War, and Terrorism: Pathways of Risk and Resilience

This review draws on research conducted into the effects of extreme adversities that lead to mass trauma, such as natural disasters, terrorism, and war, on child development. It highlights fundamental adaptive systems that help build resilience among children and youth facing extreme adversities and emphasises the importance of parental figures and of restoring high quality…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Child Displacement – UNICEF Data

This webpage includes additional figures on the number of displaced children around the world. This webpage provides important information on child displacement.
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Other document
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Children’s Participation in the Context of Forced Migration

This paper highlights the challenges of involving children in the context of forced migration. Carrying out participatory research in refugee camps is extremely difficult for a huge range of reasons, but involving children can be particularly problematical. This paper outlines the reasons for this, but also highlights why it is so important to involve people…
  • Publication year: 2001
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Children’s Right to Play: An Examination of the Importance of Play in the Lives of Children Worldwide

This report foregrounds play as a right of every child. It discusses what play is, how play differs across cultures, the importance and benefits of play, and how to provide children with the right conditions to play, including the importance of the environment for children’s play. Very important and informative book about play, what is…
  • Publication year: 2010
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2018

This report provides information about the places and numbers of displaced people around the world. 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…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Report
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Insights, Solutions and Empowerment: A Framework for Evaluating Participatory Design

This study provides key assessing methodology to understand the potential transformative capacity of Participatory Design in people working on the project. This article presents a new outcome-focused framework to assist in the evaluation of Participatory Design projects. The Insights, Solutions and Empowerment Framework draws from extant literature, and first-hand case studies in rural Cambodia, and…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Making Spaces for Children. Planning for Post-Disaster Reconstruction with Children and Their Families

This report explains why is important – in contest of crisis – to involve children and families in the planning of their physical living environment, and how to do it. This handbook aims at contributing to disaster response reconstruction programmes that not only rebuild the physical living environment but that strengthen the capacity of communities…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Report
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Mental Health of Displaced and Refugee Children Resettled in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: Risk and Protective Factors

This systematic review draws on data around displacement to low- and middle-income countries, providing evidence for individual, family, community, and societal risk and protective factors that affect displaced children’s mental health. They highlight that exposure to violence is a well-established risk factor for poor mental health among children, and call attention to the challenges faced…
  • Publication year: 2012
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Places for Children – Children’s Places

This article highlights the difference between places created by adults for children (places for children) and spaces that children themselves consider to be play spaces (children’s places). This is an important concept to keep in mind when co-designing social infrastructures with and for children. In their everyday lives, children largely stay within and relate to…
  • Publication year: 2004
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Protracted Displacement: Uncertain Paths to Self-Reliance in Exile

This report mentions that “protractedness” has become a prominent feature of forced displacement. With more than 60 million refugees and internally displaced persons around the world, more and more people have been displaced for years on end. At the end of 2014, half of all refugees had been in exile for over ten years. This…
  • Publication year: 2015
  • Content Type: Report
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Reducing Inequities in Early Childhood Mental Health: How Might the Neighborhood Built Environment Help Close The Gap? A Systematic Search and Critical Review

This study provides a review and investigates the gaps in research that study the connection between built environment and children’s development. This paper presents a critical review of the current research investigating the associations between the neighbourhood built environment and young children’s (aged 0–8 years) mental health. In general studies found a greater access to,…
  • Publication year: 2019
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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The Benefits of Participatory Evaluation for Children and Youth

This study shows how involving young people in participatory projects has a profound impact on the projects and on the children involved. This paper looks at four different projects working with children in the USA, and the results and information that was gathered as a result of young peoples participatory evaluation of the programmes.
  • Publication year: 2001
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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The Challenge of Time in Community-Based Participatory Design

This study tackles in detail the problem of time and different timings of each stakeholder involved on PD processes. One of the most critical issues is the time coordination of stakeholders in participatory design articulation of their actions in terms of time. The difference in background, role and motivation between the participating actors can result…
  • Publication year: 2017
  • Content Type: Academic paper
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Urban Planning and Design Labs: Tools for Integrated and Participatory Urban Planning

This toolkit provides a great project-based approach for Participatory Planning and Participatory Design. It incorporates the concept of “planning labs”, and includes cases from the Global South. UN-Habitat founded its in-house Urban Planning and Design Lab in Nairobi in order to provide assistance to local, regional and national authorities with urban planning and design. The…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Toolkit

PASSA Youth: Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter and Settlements Awareness

This manual is for use by National Societies of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) wishing to use PASSA Youth in their programmes. The Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness (PASSA) is a methodology, implemented in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, that aims to provide young people aged between…
  • Publication year: 2016
  • Content Type: Toolkit

Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection and Care

Usually more than half of any refugee population are children. Refugee children are children first and foremost, and as children, they need special attention. As refugees, they are particularly at risk with the uncertainty and unprecedented upheavals which are increasingly marking the post-Cold War era. In order to improve and enhance the protection and care…
  • Publication year: 1994
  • Content Type: Book

The Effects of Armed Conflict on Children

This study provides overview of the effect of conflict and displacement on children’s physical and mental health. It gives insight into particular vulnerabilities of child soldiers and unaccompanied minors and separated children; and it presents an overview of some studies that have worked on interventions to mitigate effects of conflict and displacement on children’s physical…
  • Publication year: 2018
  • Content Type: Academic paper

The Ecology of Human Development – Experiments by Nature and Design

In this book, Bronfenbrenner presents a theoretical perspective for ecological research on human development that differs in many ways from Barker’s orientation. Three research paradigms are presented: studies of ecological transition, transforming experiments. and studies of contrasting environments. An important aspect of this book is Bronfenbrenner’s critique of the laboratory as a context for observing…
  • Publication year: 1979
  • Content Type: Book

The Development of Play

The book explores the central role of play in childhood development. David Cohen examines how children play with objects, with language, and most importantly with each other and their parents. He explains how play enables children to learn how to move, think, speak and imagine, as well as to develop emotionally and socially. The book…
  • Publication year: 2006
  • Content Type: Book

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

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

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