Value for money is the defining international aid mantra of our age – and rightly so. These are fiscally straitened times in donor economies. We need to...
The price of hope:
Restoring hope,
rebuilding futures
Over half-a-million South Sudanese refugee children are living in refugee settlements across northern Uganda. The vast majority are out-of-school. Not that...
Refugee baby’s mother perishes at sea
A 15 month-old baby lost her mother during the latest Save the Children rescue in the Mediterranean, one of our most horrific missions to date in which four...
The new ‘Humanitarian Mechanism’: more affordable vaccines for children in conflict
By helping make vaccines more affordable so they can reach some of the most excluded children, the new ‘Humanitarian Mechanism’ is a tremendous step...
Yemen’s health system
reaching breaking point
On some days, every two to three minutes a new patient will arrive at the main hospital in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. Weak and malnourished, the children are...
Celebrating our brilliant volunteers
This week is Volunteers’ Week, an annual event where the whole country comes together to celebrate the 23 million people who give their skills and time to...
Uganda must have more
support for refugees
As more than 1.8 million refugees – including one million children – flee South Sudan for Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo...
Early childhood development: luxury or necessity
Early childhood development is often perceived as a luxury that is only accessible and applicable to the more economically affluent, rather than the poor. Given...
SPEECH: Kevin Watkins at the London Somalia Conference
We are today, quite properly, focusing on immediate humanitarian needs. But this should not deflect us from the task of building the resilience, infrastructure...
Japan builds momentum for nutrition with launch of Global Report
Japan launched the latest Global Nutrition Report in April at a high-level event in Tokyo to guide action and advocacy to reduce malnutrition worldwide.