2012 CHILD SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMS RESULTS Children outside their ECCD Center OVERVIEW Save the Children in the Philippines has been implementing Child Sponsorship programs for over 30 years, and is currently supporting programs in the South Central Mindanao (SCM) and Metro (MM) impact areas. Implementation in is in the cities of and and in the of . Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction and Food Security interventions are also implemented with Sponsorship funding. Over 400,000 people were reached directly through these programs in 2012. A life-cycle approach following the Common Approach modules is utilized with an overarching aim of ensuring that children learn and develop to their full potential.

KEY RESULTS

Early Childhood Care Basic Education School Health & Nutrition (SHN) & Development (ECCD)

 In Caloocan, 95% of children  In SCM, the program continued to  In SCM, 80 schools were provided with a showed improved implement its successful Mother Tongue- comprehensive package of SHN services, developmental outcomes. In based Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) which included dental fairs, oral health SCM, 79% of children interventions. An evaluation of 846 Grade education and Vitamin A supplementation, in showed improved 1 students showed the following collaboration with the Kids SHINE/MORE developmental outcomes achievements: project in 2012 after having accessed ECCD o Based on the baseline and endline services  In 2012, there was the development and surveys done in 2011 and 2012, improvement of water systems in 9 schools,  In SCM, 506 sites were respectively, 86% of children were toilets in 4 schools, and hand washing facilities provided with quality- considered to be independent in 6 schools promoting support such as readers at endline compared to the teaching and learning baseline of 2%  Orientation and awareness-raising sessions on materials, teacher training, proper nutrition, health and hygiene, and o 5% of children were categorized as sanitation were conducted for parents, nutrition security tools, frustrated readers at endline, which is teachers, health service providers and children assessment kits, learning a decrease from 12% at baseline in 2012 center improvement and refurbishment and parenting  In 2012, the MTBMLE interventions were  In MM, 79 children with disabilities were education in 2012 scaled-up to the regional level, which enrolled in two partner schools in Taguig City/ benefited more than 140,000 children from Pateros in 2012  In MM, learning materials Grades 1 to 3 in the 9 divisions of SCM were provided and 30  In MM, the team piloted a dengue prevention ECCD facilities were  In MM, the piloting of Literacy Boost was a awareness campaign in response to the rising refurbished through focus of the program in Caloocan City and cases of dengue-related illness and death in improvement and/or reached 1,557 children in 2012. As part of Caloocan. Children were heavily involved in construction of water, the pilot, 32 teachers and another 74 the design of the campaign and there were sanitation and hand washing community volunteers (48 of which were approximately 4,000 participants in the facilities, as well as adults and 26 were youth) were trained to campaign’s interactive activities. The campaign replacement or repair of support Literacy Boost interventions also received a high-level of media coverage roofs in 2012

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2012 CHILD SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMS RESULTS PHILIPPINES

Adolescent Development

 In MM, two Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) facilities were established in Pateros and Taguig in 2012. A comprehensive process was undertaken to establish the facilities, including: o Capacity building and training of adult service providers and adolescent peer educators o The establishment of common minimum standards to make each facility adolescent-friendly o The development, production and distribution of materials on ASRH to further increase awareness  In 2012, a total of 24 adults and 31 adolescents were trained as adult ASRH service providers and peer educators, respectively. To broaden the reach of adolescents and parents in the community and increase awareness of sexual and reproductive health among adolescents, one of the tasks of the peer educators was to conduct community roll-out orientations on ASRH. A total of 200 community parents and 1,000 adolescent peers were reached through these orientations  In SCM, a highlight in 2012 was the organization of peer mentors in secondary schools. For several schools, these peer mentors facilitated tutorials among their peers on ASRH and managed their school’s teen centers. In one school, the peer mentors developed informal theater groups which presented adolescent issues (e.g. dropping out of school) during the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) meetings and other school activities in order to emphasize the importance of staying in school and of parental support and guidance

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