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Enabling the Work on the Ground—Supporting Children at the Grassroots

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Players that Impact the Field of International Children’s Development: Efforts to address the issues impacting vulnerable children and young people are necessarily enabled by factors that consolidate resources, ideas, logistics, tools and energy into programmatic action: technology, philanthropy, the private sector, multilaterals, international NGOs, governments, the law and legal systems, academia and research institutions, and the media. Each of these enablers has unrealized potential in making their role more effective. These actors most often work independently, and the tendency to silo the issues impacting children limits their effectiveness. Yet each is a major influence in determining how effective the work of those on the ground will be. They remain the fundamental elements in crafting a progressive response to changing the lives of dispossessed children and young people.

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Ajmera, M., Fields, G.A. (2016). Enabling the Work on the Ground—Supporting Children at the Grassroots. In: Invisible Children. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57838-9_10

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