Measuring Separation in Emergencies

The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project, funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, and implemented by Save the Children and Columbia University in association with other key academic partners including Johns Hopkins University, aims to strengthen emergency response programming for unaccompanied and separated children through the development of practical, field-tested tools to enhance the assessment of the scale and nature of separation in emergencies. Phase I included piloting a population-based estimation tool and community-based surveillance system in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014. The findings from a household study done in the Democratic Republic of Congo indicate the potential for population-based estimation of separation to be replicated in emergency settings to inform funding appeals and programmatic response.

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Articles

Using a population-based survey approach to estimate child separation after a natural disaster: findings from post-Hurricane Haiti

Author(s): Lindsay Stark, Matthew MacFarlane, Beth L Rubenstein, Gary Yu, Celina Jensen, Katharine Williamson
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: article

Estimating Child Separation in Emergencies: Results from North Kivu

Author(s): Lindsay Stark, Beth Rubenstein, Hani Mansourian, Craig Spencer
Year of Publication: 2016
Resource Type: article

Community-based surveillance to monitor trends in unaccompanied and separated children in eastern DRC

Author(s): Beth Rubenstein, Craig Spencer, Hani Mansourian, Eva Nobel,Gustave B. Munganga, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2015
Resource Type: article

Reports (English)

Full Report: A population-based estimation in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew

Author(s): Celina Jensen, Beth L. Rubenstein, Matthew MacFarlane, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: report

Summary: A population-based estimation in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew

Author(s): Celina Jensen, Beth L. Rubenstein, Matthew MacFarlane, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: report

Full Report: Measuring movement into residential care in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew: a pilot study

Author(s): Celina Jensen, Beth L. Rubenstein, Matthew MacFarlane, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: report

Summary: Measuring movement into residential care in Haiti following Hurricane Matthew: a pilot study

Author(s): Celina Jensen, Beth L. Rubenstein, Matthew MacFarlane, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: report

Full Report: Community-based monitoring in rural Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia

Author(s): Celina Jensen, Matthew MacFarlane, Beth L. Rubenstein, Terry Saw, Daniel Mekonnen, Katharine Williamson, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: report

Summary: Community-based monitoring in rural Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia

Author(s): Celina Jensen, Matthew MacFarlane, Beth L. Rubenstein, Terry Saw, Daniel Mekonnen, Katharine Williamson, Lindsay Stark
Year of Publication: 2018
Resource Type: report

Population-Based Estimation Method to Measure Separation in Emergencies: Pilot Summary Report, Democratic Republic of Congo