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This excerpt from the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report discusses the use of child-friendly spaces to provide comprehensive assistance and support to child trafficking victims in other settings. These spaces, which can be a separate room or even just a corner of a regular interview room, are typically located in existing structures such as policeContinue reading “U.S. Department of State (2021) Child-Friendly Spaces for Survivors of Human Trafficking”

Child-friendly spaces are not successfully implemented in South Africa due to problems such as urbanization, development pressure, lack of qualitative openspaces and lack of policy and legislation guiding the planning and protection of such spaces. This study evaluates local and international planning approaches of child-friendly spaces in an attempt to identify best practices and exploreContinue reading “Kriel (2014) Planning Child-Friendly Spaces for Rural Areas in South Africa: The Vallharts Case Study”

In the autumn of 2015, Save the Children Finland piloted a child-friendly space in an asylum center (utilizing an intervention in a Finnish context that is usually implemented in the countries in which the humanitarian emergency has occurred). This report covers the challenges faced during the pilot and the key lessons learned. Back to Resources