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Coram International was privileged to meet with Dinara Zakiyeva, the Commissioner for Child Rights of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and her Coordinator, Aliya Zhekenova, as part of their visit to the UK, continuing our decade-long collaboration with partners in Kazakhstan on protecting children's rights. Together with Damon Briggs from Frontline, the team discussed the key building blocks for developing an effective child protection system and the pathway for professionalising the social service workforce in Kazakhstan. Our team were also thrilled to accompany Ms Zakiyeva, Ms Zhekenova and Martin Punaks during their visit to the Children, Education and Families Department of the London Borough of Bromley, to exchange best practices and innovation in child protection and social work with its transformation lead, Aneesa Kaprie, and her team. Our thanks to Aneesa K. and to Ade Adetosoye of the London Borough of Bromley for hosting the visit. Aislu Bekmussa (Akhmediyarova)

I am really looking forward to presenting at the launch of UNICEF ROSA’s report on the impact of COVID-19 on determinants of child marriage in South Asia this coming Thursday. I worked on this study with colleagues at Coram International. The report helps shed light on how health emergencies can impact a wide range of issues which can lead to child marriage, including disrupted access to education, reduced access to support services (including those addressing SRH and domestic violence), changing migration patterns, heightened financial hardship and deeply entrenched social and gender norms.

🧩 Çocuk yaşta, erken ve zorla evliliklerin önlenmesi için birlikte çalışıyoruz! Coram International iş birliğiyle, UNICEF’in Türkiye’de yürüttüğü BM Ortak Programı değerlendirme çalışmasının ilk bulgularını paylaşmak ve tartışmak üzere hibrit formatta bir doğrulama çalıştayı düzenledik. 📍 Çalıştayda, değerlendirme sürecinde elde ettiğimiz ilk bulguları sunarak, analizleri derinleştirmek amacıyla geri bildirimler topladık. Bu sayede, programın etkisini daha kapsamlı bir şekilde ortaya koymayı hedefliyoruz. 🔍 SIDA tarafından finanse edilen ve UNICEF, UNFPA ve UN Women ortaklığında yürütülen bu program; çocuk yaşta, erken ve zorla evliliklerin önlenmesini ve toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliğinin güçlendirilmesini amaçlıyor. ---- 🧩 We are working together to prevent child, early, and forced marriages! In collaboration with Coram International, we organized a hybrid validation workshop to share and discuss the initial findings of our assessment study conducted under the UN Joint Program implemented by UNICEF in Türkiye. 📍 At the workshop, we presented the initial findings from the evaluation process and collected feedback to deepen the analysis. This will enable us to more comprehensively demonstrate the program's impact. 🔍 Funded by SIDA and implemented in partnership with UNICEF, UNFPA, and UN Women, this program aims to prevent child, early, and forced marriages and strengthen gender equality. #UNICEF #CEFM #Evaluation #CoramInternational #Tandans #UNJointProgramme

Researcher Madison Charlton has this week been conducting data collection in Viet Nam. Thank you to all who participated and facilitated, and thank you to UNICEF Viet Nam for their support!

Coram International is now closed for the holiday period. Warm wishes from our team to yours, whether or not you are celebrating, and we look forward to jumping back into work in 2025!

Today, our Meta-synthesis and meta-analysis of evidence on child marriage in South Asia report has launched, undertaken for UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia and written by Amelia Smith, Kara Apland, Freya Allery and Ramyah Harrichandiran. Access the report, executive summary and annexes here: https://lnkd.in/e8M7W7JJ

10th December is Human Rights Day, celebrating the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 77 years ago today. Coram International has been taking a rights-based approach to our research and consultancy work for 26 of those years, undertaking projects in more than 90 countries. Explore our publications here: https://lnkd.in/guytMBy

Today is International Day of People with Disabilities, a day to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities of all types. Our Director, Carolyn Hamilton, spoke last month at a Coram event on the international context of disability in care, with a focus on deinstitutionalisation and work for UNICEF Europe & Central Asia on a Summative Evaluation of the Childcare and Deinstitutionalisation Reforms in seven countries in Europe and Central Asia 2009-2022. Click here to read the full report by Professor Hamilton and Kara Apland: https://lnkd.in/eHwkJy3j

Welcome back Sihana Bina from a research visit to Gaziantep, Türkiye, and thank you to those who participated in and facilitated her data collection!

Researchers Ramyah Harrichandiran and Freya Allery were in Montevideo, Uruguay, last week. A huge thank you to their translator, Matilde (pictured) and to Alexa Cuello Miedzybrodzki for helping to facilitate their data collection!