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• Mental health and psychosocial support

Adolescents with albinism in Tanzania regularly experience stigmatisation, yet little is known about their coping strategies or related interventions. This qualitative brief report aims to explore the stigma-coping strategies employed by adolescents with albinism, and to gain insight into the influence of peer support on those strategies through a group coping intervention.

20 Dec 2025

• Mental health and psychosocial support

Cyclone Ditwah has caused the worst flooding and landslides Sri Lanka has seen in decades, destroying over 86,000 homes and taking more than 630 lives. Nearly 70,000 people, many of them children, are living in temporary shelters, including schools converted into emergency accommodation.

12 Dec 2025

• Education

With Can’t Wait to Learn, digital personalised learning makes teachers work simpler, children’s learning more engaging, and support education officials in the use of data to inform policy making. We are excited to share the steps we’re taking to bring Can’t Wait to Learn even closer to achieving these goals, beginning in Uganda.

11 Dec 2025

War Child is deeply alarmed by reports that fighting is escalating in South Kivu, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We are gravely concerned for the safety and wellbeing of children caught up in violence.

10 Dec 2025

Statement by Rob Williams, CEO of War Child Alliance on the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) for 2026.

8 Dec 2025

• Mental health and psychosocial support

More evidence is needed for understanding how evidence-based psychological interventions work, especially when implemented by briefly trained non-professionals in low- and middle-income settings.

7 Dec 2025

• Mental health and psychosocial support

Inclusive participation of mental health service users is critical for effective decision-making and governance, yet remains underexplored in humanitarian settings. Lebanon, facing protracted crises and hosting over 1.5 million Syrian refugees, provides a unique case to examine pathways of service user participation in mental health decision-making.

1 Dec 2025

• Mental health and psychosocial support

This study explores the experiences and challenges encountered during the formation of a mental health Service User Association (SUA) in Lebanon and how these experiences can inform future practice in similar contexts.

1 Dec 2025

• Child protection

Child protection actors, including community members, work to prevent and respond to violence, abuse, neglect and the exploitation of children. Child protection approaches implemented by nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and other agencies are often located in communities but are not led by those communities. This limits contextual relevance and sustainability.

29 Nov 2025