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Cover page of Spanish version of FRI Guide

Fomentando la Resiliencia de los Niños en la Adversidad: Guía de Enfoques escolares y comunitarios integrales para el niño

Community Asset Mapping for Rural Youth in Kenya

Addressing Local Realities

Most Haitians live under the poverty line, making under USD2 per day (UNDP). The extended unemployment rate is 28%...

Fostering Resilience for Children in Adversity: A Guide to Whole Child School-Community Approaches

The GC-DWC’s guidebook Fostering Resilience for Children in Adversity: A Guide to Whole Child School-Community Approaches presents evidence for adopting a school-community approach to fostering resilience for children living in poverty and other forms of adversity.

Practical Measurements Toolkit

The current discourse around measurement and evaluation of children and adolescents' learning and development has moved the sector away from reliance on anecdotal information to a focus on capturing the actual change in outcomes for children and adolescents in specific programs or interventions.

Catch-up Education: A longitudinal study with war-affected children

One way to ensure youth in crisis receive the catch-up education they need is through Accelerated Education Programs (AEPs). AEPs provide children access to flexible, age-appropriate curriculum in an accelerated time frame.

Supporting Future Generations: The Science Behind Investing in Adolescents

Investing in adolescents builds strong economies, inclusive communities and vibrant societies, however, adolescent development is often neglected in education programming and evaluation.

Adversity and Resilience

Where nurturing relationships are unavailable to children, the consequences can be severe. While the science on the impact of early childhood interventions is strong, there is a lack of research on best practices in contexts of extreme adversity and poverty in low- and middle-income countries...

Cognitive Interviewing with Young Children

In May 2017, the Fostering Resilience Initiative (FRI) within the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) evaluated ACE Haiti’s innovative program, using cognitive interviews to better capture SEL and the local context.

Strong Beginnings for Children in Haiti: 2020-2024 Learnings Brief

There are numerous challenges facing young children in Haiti, including political upheaval, gang violence, civil unrest, community violence, closures, shortages of necessities, and natural disasters. This fragility has had a detrimental impact on the learning and development of young children.