Search by systematic review

A Delphi review by Bree Akesson and CPC associate director Mark Canavera, sought to identify ways that the social service workforce can be strengthened around the globe.

This review focuses on the findings from high-quality published evaluation research into economic strengthening (ES) programs, implemented by NGOs, in resource-poor environments in the developing world, where external evaluators measured impacts on any of a wide variety of indicators of children’s or youth’s protection and wellbeing.

This literature review highlights protection challenges that children face in Liberia, explores current gaps in formal and informal child protection mechanisms, and sets forth the rationale for the development of a child protection curriculum in Liberia.

This report reviews economic strengthening (ES) approaches across various categories of separated children, across humanitarian and development contexts and across agencies.

This report maps the current repertoire of tools and approaches available for measuring children's psychosocial wellbeing.

From May-December 2013, the Child Protection in Crisis (CPC) Network and Save the Children UK conducted a scoping exercise in order to examine two child protection issues considered “hard to measure” in humanitarian settings: sexual violence against children and violence within the household.

This article published in Trauma, Violence and Abuse provides a systematic review of published literature that represents attempts to quantify the magnitude of gender-based violence in emergency settings.

The CPC Network Program Learning Group (PLG) in Liberia conducted an integrated review of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) programs in Liberia to examine the methods and outcomes of current SGBV prevention and response interventions, and to identify promising practices that can inform the development of future program and policy initiatives.

The availability of effective measurement tools is a clear prerequisite for the strengthening of monitoring and evaluation within the field of child protection. This report provides a structured review of a sample of 124 child protection M&E tools.

This systematic review of PubMed, PsychINFO, and PILOTS identified 500 publications (1991–2008) on interventions addressing the psychosocial wellbeing and mental health of children affected by violence in low- and middle-income countries.