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Taking a Common-Sense Approach for Children and Youth Policies and Programs

All children and youth—from infancy to adolescence to young adulthood—should have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential. Ongoing global…

September 19, 2022
Resource

CRS: Helping Partners Develop or Strengthen Their Organizational Child Protection Policies

This document from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is a facilitator's guide to help organizations develop or further strengthen their policies to protect children. This training can be used to upgrade or create a protection policy. The guide provides an overview of child protection, guidance on responding to abuse cases, and information on an organization's responsibility to protect. This document is useful for organizations seeking more information on effective child protection policies. Please note that this document is related to child protection. If you're looking for CRS' PSEA Partner toolkit, you can find it in related resources.

December 6, 2019
Resource

ICVA Safeguarding Policies

This document is ICVA's Code of Conduct. This document will be useful for organizations that are looking for examples of CoC/SEA Policies

November 23, 2019
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Government Policies Affecting Immigrants and Asylum Seekers Worsen

It is incumbent on those of us who are part of the InterAction community, and broader civil society, to root American values, that affirm the potential and dignity of all people as a welcoming and compassionate nation, in our hearts. We must be an example for our leaders and our neighbors.

July 9, 2018
Event

Climate Advocacy Working Group

The monthly Climate Advocacy Working Group provides Members with networked learning and collective action opportunities to advocate for U.S. and multilateral policies, approaches, and resources that decelerate climate change and support the world’s most vulnerable to adapt to its effects.

January 2, 2025
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Meaningful Refugee Participation at the Global Refugee Forum

The United Nations' policy and decision-making processes are predominantly confined to exclusive spaces, with much of the work concentrated at its offices in Geneva and New York. These elite forums are removed from realities on the ground and often exclude those with lived experience.

December 18, 2024
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Barriers to Aid: The Growing Bureaucratic and Administrative Hurdles in Latin America

Surging bureaucratic and administrative impediments (BAI) across Latin America are an increasing challenge to humanitarian access and a barrier to…

December 16, 2024
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Dignity in the Heat: Addressing Health and Shelter Needs in Humanitarian Crises

Two major climate trends are reshaping the humanitarian landscape: the increasing frequency of acute, high-cost disasters and…

December 9, 2024
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Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Need for Protection and Empowerment in Guatemala

Twenty-five percent of people giving birth in Guatemala, which has one of the highest…

December 6, 2024
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Addressing Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

On November 25, 1960, agents of the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo dictatorship brutally murdered Patria, Minerva, and Teresa Mirabel, three activists…

December 5, 2024