Policy and Practice

Driving change for children

Check out our featured policy reports and blogs for insight into key issues affecting children and what needs to change.

Children play. Host Syrian Families, in Balbeek in Bekaa Lebanon.

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An unaccompanied refugee from South Sudan at school.

Our Policy Areas

Our Practice areas

EHU nurse screening for health and nutrition issues in Bidi bidi camp

Our Policy and practice areas

Our policy and practice teams are experts in their fields of study, and on these pages share their invaluable insight and research on the issues affecting children in the world today.

Learn more about our thematic content and the work we do in our policy areas. You can jump to the most relevant area by using the links below:

Conflict and humanitarian, Health, Education, Inclusive development, Nutrition, Strategic foresight and UK poverty.

On each page you’ll find a summary of our key priorities for each topic, reports and stats of our impact so far, latest blogs, and the team of experts behind the research.

Within our practice areas, you can again find out more about our practice teams, the work they do and their most recent publications.

a young child is screened for malnutrition in Syria

Our featured reports

Our featured reports showcase some of our most recent, and relevant work calling for change in children’s lives, and are split into the six practice areas our teams focus on.

You can also scroll through and search our vast archive of old reports – particularly around child protection, child rights governance, health and nutrition, education and child poverty on our resource centre. Here you can browse by our thematic areas, country and region, publisher and author, and key words, to find exactly what you are looking for.

Policy blogs

Insight and news from our experts

Humanitarian Capacity Building

Our learning programmes for humanitarian professionals

Our policy blogs and training

For more current updates, political commentary and opinion pieces from the policy team, check out their most recent blogs on issues affecting children at home and abroad.

You can also learn more about, or apply for – our humanitarian capacity building learning programmes for professionals in the field. This training, developed by the humanitarian team, for humanitarians working across the world, teaches best practice and skills to minimise needless suffering and ultimately save lives.

The page also lists current training opportunities including diverse programmes such as W.A.S.H training (supporting staff in the delivery of water, sanitation, and hygiene training), F.I.E.L.D (field managers in emergencies, learning and development) programme and many more.

The humanitarian capacity building team also works in an advisory capacity. As well as developing and delivering learning programmes, they will also support other organisations to deliver these services.