Supporting Families through the Economic Crisis: The SOS Children’s Villages Family Report 2012
Contents Preface: For caring families in difficult times
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Executive Summary
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0. Introduction
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0.1. Global challenges require joint responses
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0.2. Family in the context of a globalised world
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0.3. Children and their families at the centre of response 1. The key importance of state support
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1.1. The Challenge: Families fighting poverty
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1.2. The Response: Supporting states and communities in service provision
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1.3 Key learnings and recommendations
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2. Hard choices: Labour migration, unemployed or working poor
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2.1. The Challenge: The emotional costs of labour migration
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2.2. The Response: Improving families’ income prospects
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2.3 Key learnings and recommendations
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3. Health care gaps increase family vulnerability
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3.1. The challenge: Preventive health education
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3.2. The Response: An integral approach to family health
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3.3 Key learnings and recommendations
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4. Keeping children in school
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4.1 The Challenge: Family income and knowledge
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4.2. The Response: Adressing children, families and the system holistically to prevent school-drop
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4.3 Key learnings and recommendations
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5. Economic pressures impact on parenting
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5.1. The Challenge: Child care at risk
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5.2. The Response: Supporting quality care among care-givers and communities
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5.3. Key learnings and recommendations
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The SOS Children’s Villages Family Report 2012
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