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Committed to Children’s Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. 2016 Annual Report
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Content Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organisation for children.
Our vision A world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
Our mission To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children in order to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
4 Where we work
Table of contents
3 Introduction
5 Our impact 6 Reach by thematic area 7 Regional priorities: Children on the Move and Opportunities for adolescents 10 Humanitarian responses 16 Tackling Zika 18 Advocacy and the “Every Last Child” global campaign 21 Finance 22 Contact details
Photos: Save the Children
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Introduction Working for the most excluded children and adolescents.
Latin America and the Caribbean is a region of contrasts. While economic indicators qualify our countries as middle-income, there are still excluded children who cannot attain their rights. Extreme violence, migration and forced displacement, as well as high rates of adolescent pregnancy are the main issues affecting children and adolescents in our region. In 2016, through our programmes and humanitarian responses, we reached over 13.5 million children and adolescents. Partnerships with governments, civil society organisations, the private sector, and our staff’s daily efforts allow us to reach the most excluded. Victoria Ward Regional Director Latin America and the Caribbean Save the Children
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Where we work We work in more than 120 countries to achieve significant progress in the way the world treats children. In Latin America and the Caribbean, we operate in 19 countries.
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Regional Office 1. Panama
Country Offices and Members
Save the Children’s Presence through Partners
2. Bolivia
14. Argentina
3. Colombia
15. Brazil
4. Dominican Republic
16. Chile
5. Ecuador
17. Costa Rica
6. El Salvador
18. Cuba
7. Guatemala
19. Paraguay
8. Guatemala
20. Uruguay
9. Haiti
21. Venezuela
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10. Honduras 11. Mexico 12. Nicaragua 13. Peru
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Our impact In 2016, we reached over 13.5 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean through our health and nutrition, education, protection, Child Rights Governance, and humanitarian aid programmes.
We implemented
213 projects in the region in 2016.
We invested USD
50.9 million
to reach the most vulnerable children.
We responded to
17 emergencies, assisting over
380 thousand children.
26.4% of our
programmes involved effective child
participation.
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Reach by thematic area
PROTECTION In the area of protection, we reached ll
nearly 4 million children ensuring proper care, protection against the different forms of violence, and working to strengthen the local and national protection systems.
EDUCATION We ll
reached over
Almost ll
3 million children
CHILD RIGHTS GOVERNANCE In ll
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
the area of Child Rights Governance, we reached 1.5 million children, focusing our efforts on follow-up actions and demands for Children’s Rights and public investment in children.
with programmes focusing on attending early childhood and regular basic education.
3 million children
gained access to quality health and nutrition services. 30% had ll
access to our breastfeeding and nutrition programmes.
CHILD POVERTY We reached 1.1 ll
million children in the
area of child poverty through initiatives that provide child-friendly livelihoods as well as programmes for adolescents to develop their abilities.
Furthermore, we reached 32.5 million adults who contributed to improving the lives of children and adolescents in the region.
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Regional priorities In the framework of the three breakthroughs of the “Ambition for Children 2030” global strategy, in Latin America and the Caribbean we focused our work on Children on the Move and the adolescents who are part of the most excluded groups in the region.
Global priorities SURVIVE
LEARN
BE PROTECTED
Regional priorities
CHILDREN ON THE MOVE
ADOLESCENTS
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Children on the move In 2016, more than 200 thousand unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents were detained at the Mexican-US border. In the face of this crisis, which directly affects the countries of the Northern Triangle —El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras— Save the Children developed a regional strategy to respond and look into the reasons that cause forced migration. We supported attention centres for migrants in each country by providing hygiene kits and psychosocial support for the returned children and adolescents. Through humanitarian aid and the different projects fostering a culture of peace and attachment, prevention of violence, and children and adolescent protection, we were able to reach more than 139 thousand children and adolescents. Our intervention focused on: Strengthening the protection systems for the care of children and adolescents in ll
their communities of origin, during the migratory transit, at the destination and during their return so they may enjoy their right to a decent, protected and safe life.
Another important theme of our strategy is the participation in spaces of political ll advocacy, along with other civil society organisations, and in international instances of discussion, such as the United Nations.
120,000 100,000 80,000
Child protection Appropriate care Protection systems
Prevention of violence
Total reach:
199 thousand people, of which over 139 thousand
Others
60,000
were children and adolescents
40,000 20,000 0 Children and adolescents 139,228
Adults 60,404
Total 199,632
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Opportunities for adolescents In Latin America and the Caribbean, we work with children, adolescents, and youths between the ages of 10 and 24, seeking to strengthen their skills as well as the exercise of their economic, sexual and reproductive rights. We do this through a comprehensive approach with three key components: sexual and reproductive health, empowerment with a rights-based approach, and economic empowerment. We are currently implementing 42 projects regarding adolescents in the region, most of which focus on empowerment with a rights-based approach. In 2016: We promoted the participation of adolescents in discussion and decision-making ll spaces at national and regional level. They were the main spokespersons in the launch of the global report “Every Last Girl�, which presented a petition for authorities to respect and fully enforce their rights.
A political advocacy and resource mobilisation plan was developed in order to ll
guide the countries in the region to strengthen their abilitites, advocacy actions, and resource mobilisation associated with adolescents.
400,000 350,000 300,000
Health and nutrition Child poverty Sexual and reproductive health
Skill development
Total reach:
473 thousand people, of which 175 thousand
250,000 200,000 150,000
were male and female adolescents
100,000 50,000 0 Children and adolescents 175,184
Adults 297,906
Total 473,090
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Humanitarian responses We responded to 17 emergencies in the region, reaching over 837 thousand people, of which more than 380 thousand were children and adolescents. Honduras Response to Zika, drought and food security Haiti Hurricane Matthew
Guatemala Food security and landslides
Nicaragua Response to Zika and floods
El Salvador Response to Zika and irregular displacement/ migration Colombia Response to Zika and WASH
Ecuador Earthquake Bolivia Response to Zika and drought
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Humanitarian response in Haiti In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, leaving 1.4 million Haitians, including almost 600 thousand children, in need of humanitarian assistance. Save the Children took part in the humanitarian response providing access to shelter, water and sanitation, healthcare services, nutrition and education, and taking preventive measures to avoid exploitation, abuse, neglect, and violence against children and adolescents.
Total reach:
58 thousand people, including 34 thousand children
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Achievements
We provided support to six ll healthcare centres and so far we have carried out more than 7,500 consultations. Furthermore,
315 ll
children were
examined to rule out malnutrition.
70 healthcare workers were trained.
4,449 ll
members of
communities were trained on child protection.
We carried out sessions to ll
promote hygiene in
order to raise awareness and prevent illnesses such as diarrhea and cholera, reaching 2,500 people from 6 communities.
More than 3,700 ll
children registered in the 19 childfriendly spaces set up to provide psycho-emotional support and for them to be protected.
We trained 70 ll
community
leaders on safe building techniques and disaster risk reduction.
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Humanitarian response in Ecuador On 16th April 2016, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Ecuadorian coast—Manabà and Esmeraldas being the two most affected provinces. More than 660 deceased were registered, and more than 28 thousand homeless. Moreover, the damage to school infrastructure affected over 170 thousand children and adolescents. Our response focused on 4 sectors: WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene), housing, protection and education, and we worked in coordination with authorities and community leaders.
Total reach:
13,500 people, including 5 thousand children and adolescents 13
Achievements
2,500 learning kits for ll school-age children were delivered, and 158 teachers were trained on protection issues.
42 permanent community ll
child-friendly spaces were established, where we reached
3,200 children and adolescents. We trained 250 promoters to encourage these spaces.
400 family latrines were installed, at 30 ll
schools water and sanitation conditions were improved, 1,175 hygiene kits were delivered, 6 thousand people were sensitised on issues of hygiene promotion. A total of more than 15,000 people benefited of our water, sanitation and hygiene promotion programme.
Reinforced tents ll were built for
1,250 families
through our coupon exchange programme.
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Through my eyes Photography workshops in friendly spaces Within the framework of our humanitarian response in Ecuador, we organised photography workshops with adolescents of the communities of Manabí and Esmeraldas. The activities allowed the adolescents to re-gain the spaces of their communities and to express their emotions and feelings through photography. A total of 118 children took part in the workshops and the pictures were exhibited in their communities and in an open-air installation on the United Nations Boulevard in Ecuador.
“When you take a camera in your hand, it takes you to another world, to the imagination, where taking a photo takes away the stress. It’s like discovering a world beyond yours”.
Carlos, 16 – Pedro Carbo, Ecuador.
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Tackling Zika In 2016, Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a Zika epidemic affecting all the countries within the region and Save the Children was one of the first organizations to respond. The main objective of the regional response was to prevent newborn microcephaly and to guarantee the protection and appropriate care for children who were born with congenital malformations due to the virus. We achieved this by strengthening individual and community capacities for vector control and for self-care, delivering protection materials to the communities and health-related organisations, raising awareness of the use of contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies and the sexual transmission of the Zika virus, and by strengthening the commitment of decision makers and communities.
Total reach:
1.2 million people, of which over 330 thousand were children and adolescents
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Achievements Dominican Republic We forged alliances with the corporate sector to improve health in vulnerable communities.
Haiti We responded to Zika by empowering the communities through education, protection, and mobilisation actions.
El Salvador We developed prevention projects against Zika in more than 70 schools through the creation of school brigades.
Honduras We trained and mobilised community organisations such as the health committees, violence prevention networks, and community medication funds.
Colombia We carried out sanitation and hygiene campaigns to control the vectors in coordination with the communities. We also delivered materials for prevention and protection, such as mosquito nets and educational materials. Nicaragua We created healthcare brigades who visited house by house raising awareness and educating the population.
Bolivia We trained over 27 thousand children and adolescents, and close to one thousand teachers on strategies to prevent Zika.
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Advocacy and the “Every Last Child� global campaign
In Bolivia and Peru, we worked in ll
coordination with the governments to
prevent adolescent pregnancies.
In Brazil, Venezuela and Chile, we ll submitted reports, proposals and bills to promote comprehensive child protection.
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The Ministry of Education of El ll
Salvador adopted Save the Children’s campaign “My Right to an Education Travels with Me�, committed to participate in the studies to better understand the impact of internal human displacement on education.
In ll
Nicaragua,
4 local governments
have implemented
investment in child projects, benefitting over 4,900 children.
Save the Children recommended the creation of a ll
special commission within the National Protection System in Mexico to guarantee that public investment in children is fair, of quality, and aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. Currently, the Commission is operating and has been allocated a budget.
We created an advisory council ll
in Haiti formed by the government, multilateral organisations, and civil society organisations to position the issue of domestic child labour, and to promote assistance and prevention mechanisms on the public agenda.
In Paraguay, the law ll
banning physical and humiliating punishment was passed, and in Guatemala,
we carried out advocacy actions in order to implement the existing legislation against this type of violence.
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#EveryLastGirl Our “Every Last Girl” campaign highlights the barriers faced by girls and adolescents which prevent the exercise of their rights such as gender violence, poor access to quality health and reproductive services, economic exclusion and the education gap. We work to empower girls and adolescents to make their voices heard and they are able to enjoy their full rights.
“I dream of a world where the rights of all children and adolescents are acknowledged and respected” Yarith – Perú.
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Finance In 2016, the net income at regional level* was US$ 50.9 million.
Funds by thematic area Area
2016
Education
14,210
Health
4,212
Nutrition
4,001
Child Rights Governance
1,565
Protection
4,484
Emergencies/Humanitarian
6,897
Livelihoods
3,295
Cross-cutting Themes
2,417
Non-thematic
9,242
Fundraising TOTAL
* For country offices and the Regional Office. Source: Country Annual Report (CAR)
655 50,954
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Contact details Our global movement comprises Save the Children International and 30 members. In Latin America and the Caribbean, we have the following country offices and members: Save the Children International www.savethechildren.net Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean https://www.savethechildren.net/region/lac/contact Country Offices
Members Save the Children Dominican Republic www.savethechildren.org.do Save the Children Honduras www.savethechildrenhonduras.org Save the Children Mexico www.savethechildren.mx
Bolivia https://www.savethechildren.org.bo Colombia www.savethechildren.org.co El Salvador https://elsalvador.savethechildren.net/es Guatemala www.savethechildren.org.gt Haiti https://haiti.savethechildren.net Nicaragua https://nicaragua.savethechildren.net Peru www.savethechildren.org.pe Sub-Office Ecuador http://www.savethechildren.org.ec
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Published by Save the Children International. Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean. August 2017.
The statistics are based on the last available figures of Save the Children’s programmes and reports.
We would like to thank all of the people who participated in developing this annual report.
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