EVERY © Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children LAST CHILD Save the Children Japan Annual Report 2017 [Executive Summary] Every child has the right to survival, protection, development and participation. We fight to make children’s rights a reality worldwide. For nearly 100 years, we have been working with children Save the Children is an international NGO that works to make children’s rights to survival, development, protection and participation a reality worldwide. It was established in the UK in 1919, and is currently at work in approximately 120 countries. The UN and the governments of many countries have a high regard for Save the Children as a pioneer of children’s rights, and we have achieved breakthroughs in the way the world treats children. Save the Children Japan was established in 1986. We are active in international programs in fields such as health and nutrition and education. When conflicts or natural disasters occur, we provide emergency and humanitarian responses. In Japan, we have actively addressed issues of child poverty and child abuse, and have also conducted various programs in response to large-scale disasters such as Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Kumamoto Earthquake. Through these programs, we work to make children’s rights a reality. Save the Children is active in approximately 120 countries including Japan Save the Children is active in approximately 120 countries including Japan The number of people we have directly reached © Ali Ashwal/Save the Children Children in Yemen play in a child-friendly space run by Save the Children. through our work and our partners’ work in 2017 49,587,799 children and 30,696,605 adults, Foreword totaling 80,284,404 people ■ Countries and regions where Save the Children worked in 2017 We wish to extend our sincere gratitude to all who have supported our work at Save the Children * Of the above countries and regions, those marked with■ are countries and regions worldwide. Over a period of nearly 100 years since 1919 when Save the Children was founded in the where Save the Children Japan conducted projects by assigning staff members, etc. UK, we have been working to make children’s rights to survival, protection, development and participation a reality. In 2017, we provided support to nearly 50 million children in 120 countries worldwide, including Japan. Overseas, we provided emergency and humanitarian responses for Syrian and Rohingya children and Emergency and for children encountering food crises. We also implemented programs on a global basis in fields such Humanitarian Response Health and Nutrition Education as education, health and nutrition, disaster risk reduction and child protection. For children and local communities Save the Children provides assistance In order for all children to receive quality In our domestic programs, we responded swiftly to support children and their families in the areas affected by natural disasters and to ensure that all children and their education, Save the Children implements affected by the heavy rains that struck northern Kyushu in July 2017. Meanwhile, we continued our humanitarian crises, Save the Children families can access quality health programs which improve learning work on recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Kumamoto Earthquake in April 2016. In addition, swiftly responds to meet their services including healthcare for environments, in schools and in communities, we moved forward with addressing challenges that affect children in Japan by working to end child immediate needs, enabling them to pregnant women, mothers and and provides capacity development poverty and prevent child abuse. return to their lives and rebuild their newborns; prevention and treatment of opportunities for teachers, raises awareness lives. infectious diseases and malnutrition; in local communities, provides scholarships The year 2018 is the third year of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approved and strengthening health systems. and promotes preschool education by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. As an international NGO that promotes children’s program. We also influence global and rights, Save the Children has been deeply involved in formulating these goals. In 2018 we will continue national policy to improve children’s access contributing to efforts to achieve these goals through our programs inside and outside Japan, based Child Protection to quality education. on our commitment to “leave no child behind.” Disaster Risk Reduction Save the Children promotes the We look forward to your support as we continue working to make the rights of all children a reality (DRR) Child Participation structures and measures of child the world over. protection in close collaboration with Save the Children strengthens DRR Save the Children creates and various stakeholders such as structures of local communities so supports opportunities for children to Junichiro Ida, Chair of the Board governments, local communities, children that children can actively participate speak out on the issues surrounding Kunio Senga, Managing Director of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and their caregivers to protect children and their voices are reflected in DRR children, and works to ensure that Save the Children Japan from violence, abuse and exploitation, policy and practice. We promote children’s opinions are reflected in and cultivates environments in which child-centered disaster risk reduction. social initiatives and policies. children can grow up safely and securely. 2 Foreword ©D.Davaanyam/Save the Children About Save the Children 3 International Programs Emergency and Humanitarian Response Health and Nutrition Education Child Protection ©Jarurin Pholhinkong/Save the Children We provided emergency responses to humanitarian We worked to prevent and treat malnutrition and We worked to improve children’s skills in reading, In Myanmar, we strengthened community-based child crises in Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, and elsewhere, as infectious diseases and to make societies capable of writing and arithmetic, and to enhance the quality of protection systems to ensure that children are well as for the Rohingya people who have been offering everyone access to quality health services. In education so that all children can have an opportunity protected in post-conflict communities. We also displaced. Our support for refugee children, internally Vietnam we started a project with the aim of to learn. We supported preschool education in provided support to children who had been affected by displaced children and their families included the improving the nutritional status of ethnic minority Mongolia by making it easier for children from violence. In Mongolia, our activities included the provision of emergency relief supplies and activities in mothers and children who have not benefited from the nomadic families who could not attend kindergarten development of the capacity of local government areas such as education, child protection, and health country’s economic growth. Our initiatives included to adapt to elementary school. One way in which we personnel such as social workers so as to respond and sanitation. We also set up child-friendly spaces in securing food using natural resources, improving did this was to provide picture books and educational effectively to child protection concerns. each region to offer environments where children can health services for mothers and children, and toys in the form of study kits enabling such children to feel safe and secure. developing learning materials to raise health learn at home. awareness. Disaster Risk Reduction © Ali Alashwal/Save the Children We responded to food crises in East Africa, Nigeria, In Myanmar, we collaborated with health authorities To support basic education in Mongolia, We worked with local communities and governments Yemen and elsewhere by providing nutritional to promote safe childbirth and delivery of healthy we strengthened teaching skills among teachers so on child-centered disaster risk reduction. Our supplements and therapeutic foods and medical newborns in rural communities where a large number that elementary schools in low-income communities programs included building the capacity of local treatment. In Mongolia, meanwhile, we supported of ethnic minorities live. We worked to strengthen could provide the right reception for children with a communities to respond to natural disasters and children from nomadic families who had been affected community-based health systems by training auxiliary range of different home circumstances. This was climate change in Uganda and Vietnam, preventing by “dzud,” a phenomenon unique to Mongolia where midwives, among other measures. We also built health supplemented by promoting closer collaboration water-related accidents among children in Thailand, cold and snow cause widespread death of livestock. centers and offered support including a program between children’s parents and schools. In India we and promoting road safety for children and young We also made use of the Inochi Mirai Fund to provide providing cash subsidies to reduce the burden of helped teachers to enhance their teaching capacity by people in Indonesia. prompt assistance to children all over the world medical costs. developing digital learning materials that helped affected by disasters, conflicts and other emergencies. children to understand lessons more effectively. 4 International Programs International Programs 5 Domestic