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• The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, originally drafted by Eglantyne Jebb, was adopted in 1924 by the League of Nations, the forerunner to the United Nations.

• We opened our first African programme, a child welfare centre in Addis Ababa, Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), in the early 1930s. When the country was invaded by the Italian army in 1935, we moved our staff to help refugees in British Somaliland (now part of Somalia).

• In 1940, we asked supporters to sponsor children living under the shadow of the Second World War. Reminiscent of the child friendly spaces we still run today, we created playcentres in air-raid shelters in large UK cities to help children find a way to cope.

• After seeing the plight of children caught in the chaos and aftermath of First World War, our founder, Eglantyne Jebb launched the Save the Children Fund to raise much needed funds to help them.

• Outside Europe, the Serendah project in Malaya (now Malaysia) gave orphaned boys an education and a safe place to live. By the end of the 1950s, most of Save the Children’s funding was going towards work in Asia.

• The Korean War began in 1950, leaving many children destitute and living unaccompanied on the streets. Our teams arrived in 1952 and stayed for more than 20 years. In 1954, we set up a healthcare clinic, milk feeding centre and playground in a major refugee camp in Pusan.

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For nearly 100 years, Save the Children has been working to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Because of dedicated and generous supporters like you, in times of crisis, we are among the first to respond and the last to leave, and we have delivered lasting results for millions of children throughout the years.

• In the 1930s, with our supporters, we extended our work outside of Europe, setting up the Child Protection Committee, which stood up for children’s rights in Africa and Asia.

• Just one year after the Second World War ended in 1945, we were working with children, displaced people, refugees and concentration camp survivors in devastated areas of France, Yugoslavia, Poland and Greece.

• In 1921, our first major appeal launched to help feed children caught in the Russian famine, the biggest in history. That summer, around the city of Saratov, we delivered over 600 tons of food, set up 1,400 kitchens and fed more than 300,000 children and 350,000 adults.

A CENTURY OF CHANGEFOR CHILDREN

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• By the 1960s, Save the Children had full medical and welfare teams based in 17 countries and we were helping children and their families across 26 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the West Indies.

• In 1967, shocking images of starving children in the Nigerian Civil War in Biafra were broadcast across the world. As the conflict raged over the next two and a half years, our clinics helped around 400 patients a day.

• During the 1980s, we were at the forefront of the global campaign to reduce maternal and child mortality. With your support, also set up education, prevention and treatment projects to combat the prejudice and misconception around the spread of HIV and AIDS.

• In 1994, we opened our office in Mongolia.

• Between 2006 and 2009, our Rewrite the Future campaign helped 1.4 million children into school in countries affected by conflict.

• With the support of our donors, we were able to massively increase our capacity to respond to emergencies. Our five-year response to the 2004 Asian tsunami was one of the largest in our history, reaching around one million people. We also responded to the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, and were on the ground helping refugees during the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, in 2003.

• In 2014, during the worst ever outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, we reached 4.6 million people, including more than 2 million children, across Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Our teams trained almost 2,000 community health workers, provided healthcare services, and ran a treatment centre which increased the country’s bed capacity for Ebola patients by 20%.

• In 2016, we were on the ground in 125 countries and reached and reached more than 175 million children.

• In 1975, Save the Children was the first international aid agency allowed to return to Vietnam after the end of the war.

• By the end of the 1970s, we were carrying out work in 120 countries across six continents.

• Our staff and partners were the first to raise the alarm about the impending famine that hit Ethiopia in 1984. In response, we shipped out grain, milk powder, sugar and oil to our centres, and by September we were feeding 7,000 badly malnourished children every day.

2019 was a special year as we marked the centenary of our establishment. 100 years ago, Save the Children’s founder, Eglantyne Jebb, had a vision to achieve and protect the rights of children worldwide. She developed and presented a Declaration of the Rights of the Child to leaders around the world at the 1924 League of Nations convention in Geneva. That Declaration was later adopted in an extended form by the United Nations and inspired the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, a landmark human rights treaty. The vision and belief that all children – whoever they are, wherever they are – have the right to a healthy, happy and fulfilling life has continued to guide Save the Children into the 21st century.

2019 also marked Save the Children’s 25th anniversary of working in Mongolia and was the first year of enacting our 2019-2021 strategic plan. We spent 1,835,410 USD in 2019 and reached over 34,400 children directly through our current thematic programs in Education, Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Humanitarian, Child Poverty and Health.

Save the Children supported the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports to mainstream inclusion of children from marginalized groups, especially those with disability, into public schools and enabled better collaboration with key education actors to discuss further improvement of the issues related to implementation of existing policies, regulations and mechanisms. For example, we played an important role in the development of the new regulation on “Inclusion of Children with Disability in Public Schools” that was approved on 15 May 2019 in order A/92 of the Minister for Education.

In 2019, we developed basic and advanced training methodologies, content, curricula, manuals and guidelines to strengthen the capacity of multi-disciplinary teams, whose primary responsibility is to ensure the enforcement of Child Protection and Combatting Domestic Violence Laws. These were deemed as best practice training modules and set the model to be disseminated at national level.

In its efforts to mainstream social accountability in Mongolia, Save the Children managed and administered 14 Sub-projects involving National and local NGOs and local government in 10 aimags and in Ulaanbaatar city.In order to tackle challenges in the education and health sectors, subprojects mainstreamed social accountability (SA) principles using SA tools, such as citizen report card, social audit, participatory monitoring, participatory planning, participatory schools, citizen score card, citizen charter, public expenditure tracking, customer satisfaction survey, and other tools.

In 2019, the Humanitarian program implemented a dzud anticipation project for the first time in 7 soums of Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd provinces and carried out an impact assessment to evaluate the result of the project. The study revealed that beneficiaries of the early action interventions lost fewer livestock than the control or non-beneficiary group. The early interventions generated approximately USD 138 of savings per beneficiary from avoiding losses, a total of USD 115 thousand for the overall project.

ANNUAL REPORT SUMMARY

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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO

From emergency relief to long-term development, Save the Children protects and promotes children’s rights. We save children’s lives, we fight for their rights, and we help them fulfill their potential. Save the Children works to build a responsible society where children’s voices are heard, their contribution is enabled and significance is attached to their opinions in making decisions relevant to their lives.

Save the Children has been working in Mongolia since 1994. The Country Program was operated with management support from Save the Children UK from 1994-2009 and from Save the Children Japan since 2009. It aims to create long-term sustainable changes in the lives of children while seeking substantial and systematic solutions to emerging challenges. Current thematic programs are: education, child protection, child rights governance, child poverty, health and humanitarian assistance.

OUR MISSIONOur mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.

THROUGH OUR WORK WE STRIVE TOWARDS ACHIEVING THREE BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE WAY THE WORLD TREATS CHILDREN:

SURVIVENo child dies from preventable causes before their fifth birthday

LEARNAll children learn from a quality basic education

BE PROTECTEDViolence against children is no longer tolerated

OUR AMBITIONWe want a world in which all children survive, learn and are protected.

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EDUCATION10

CHILD PROTECTION

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CHILD PROTECTION RESOURCE CENTER28

CHILD POVERTY36

HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE40

CHILD RIGHTS GOVERNANCE32

HEALTH46

OUR DONORS AND PARTNERS54

PUBLICATIONS57

FINANCIAL STATEMENT50

OUR COMBINED INCOME FOR 2019 WAS 1,835,410 USD

WE REACHED OVER

34,400 CHILDREN DIRECTLY

Established in 1919, we are one of the world’s leading independent organisations for children.

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As the project goal aligns with the priority of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports to mainstream inclusion of children from marginalized groups, especially those with disability, into public schools, it enabled better collaboration with key education actors to discuss further improvement of the issues related to implementation of existing policies, regulations and mechanisms. The project successfully advocated through the Inclusive Education Coordination mechanism (IECM) and Technical Assistance group (TAG) established within the project, and actively took part in development and approval of policy documents reinforcing inclusion of children with disability.

The Education program successfully completed the first phase of a three-phase primary education project funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. The second phase of the project “Promoting inclusive education for every last child in Mongolia” was launched in April 2019, expanding the number of target schools and Life-long Education Centres as planned.

We carried out an online social awareness-raising campaign against discrimination towards children with disability, which reached over two million people.

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Training modules were revised, including “Inclusive Education in-service teacher training module for public school teachers”; “Methodology for teaching mixed groups including children with special needs” for life-long education teachers and; “Methodology for raising awareness of parents, community and school staff and improving their engagement in promoting inclusive education”. A total of 196 teachers from target schools and life-long education centers in Ulaanbaatar and in Uvurkhangai and Khovd aimags participated in the module trainings.

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465A study to identify children who are out of school was carried out in the target districts of the capital city and provinces. The study revealed that 340 children in the catchment areas of Phase 1 target schools, and 125 in Phase 2 schools, a total of 465 children, were not attending school. The study involved various stakeholders and was carried out under the guidance of the National Life-long Education Center.

Through active coordination of inclusive education stakeholders, we shared our achievements, project outcomes and lessons learned, feedback relevant to policies and regulations. In this way, Save the Children played an important role in the development of the new regulation on “Inclusion of Children with Disability in Public Schools” that was approved on 15 May 2019 in order A/92 of the Minister for Education.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

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98.8% of the teachers reported increased gaining knowledge of children with special needs and methodologies to support their learning in regular public schools.


The Education cluster updated the Contingency Plan and included activities for strengthening the capacity of related organizations and key officers in the area emergency preparedness.

B.GERELTUYAOfficer, Department of General secondary education policy, Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Save the Children’s project team for organizing meetings of key education partners on a regular basis and for successfully implementing the project. The Ministry appreciates that Save the Children is implementing a most needed project that models effective and comprehensive approaches targeting both teachers and children. In the future, international organisations focusing on inclusive education need to work closely with each other, complementing and supporting one another.

As the agency co-leading the Education Cluster of the Humanitarian Country Team in Mongolia with UNICEF, Save the Children engaged with cluster members though exchange of information, consultation and sharing experiences.

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The goal of the project is to strengthen and sustain the child protection system in Mongolia to ensure that every child can fully exercise their rights to be protected in accordance with the Laws of Child Protection, Child Rights and Combating Domestic Violence. To achieve this, the project is building the capacity of multi-disciplinary teams which play a crucial role in the implementation of child protection laws. The project also focuses on increasing public and parental knowledge and perception about child protection and child rights issues.

In 2019, Save the Children Mongolia continued to implement the second stage of the project “Strengthening Child Protection Systems in Mongolia 2018-2022”. The project is funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency and is being implemented in cooperation with the Authority for Family, Child and Youth Development (AFCYD) and the Secretariat of the Coordination Council for Crime Prevention (SCCCP).

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Initially the project is located in selected target areas, but results will be disseminated at national level. The selected target areas include 16 primary administrative units: nine khoroos in three districts of Ulaanbaatar city, four bagh/soums of Arkhangai aimag, and three bagh/soums of Dornod aimag.


In 2019, we developed basic and advanced training methodologies, content, curricula, manuals and guidelines to strengthen the capacity of multi-disciplinary teams, whose primary responsibility is to ensure the enforcement of Child Protection and Combating Domestic Violence Laws.

We produced a number of publications, manuals and guidelines for multi-disciplinary teams and for those who work in the child protection field, such as “Baseline Survey for Strengthening Child Protection Systems in Mongolia Project” in English and Mongolian languages; “Communications Manual”; “Financial Documentation and Project Proposal Development Guidelines”; “Safety and Security Manual”; “Guideline of Child Protection Procedures and Formats for Multi-disciplinary Teams”; “Steps to Protect - Case Management Manual” and “To Whom, Where and How” manual for children and adults.

Multi-disciplinary teams have undertaken training of trainers for basic and advanced curriculums and methodologies, as well as case management. These were deemed as best practice training modules and set the model to be disseminated at national level. The Authority for Family, Child and Youth Development played a key role in disseminating these methodologies and practices to non-target multi-disciplinary teams.

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Parents and caretakers assessed their acceptance of positive disciplinee, with 60.9% reporting that positive methods were effective, while 39.1% responded that both positive and negative methods could be acceptable for effective parenting. Children were also involved in the survey in terms of their views on violent parenting. The results showed that 86% of the children surveyed believed that positive methods were effective, while 24.8% felt that both positive and negative methods could be used. Although the attitude of parents towards positive methods is higher than towards negative ones, it is worth noting that those parents who believe that negative disciplinary methods are effective will need to be among the project’s targets highlighting the need to broaden the horizon for delivering training, measuring results and sharing good practices to a wider audience.


The project’s baseline survey was conducted in 2019, its purpose to assess the pre-project conditions of indicators defined for the second phase of the project: current capacity of the multi-disciplinary teams, public understanding of disseminating positive discipline, reporting of incidents of child abuse and domestic violence. Both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies were employed in the collection of data, and covered all 16 project sites involving 532 adults and children. The Government endorsed 22 forms for MDTs’ daily operations. Based on the survey findings, the MDTs in target sites use, on average, 12 (55.7%) of the 22 forms officially endorsed by the government.

Non-MDT community members were also surveyed about their understanding of how to report a case of child abuse orneglect, and domestic violence. 61.7% of non-MDT community members reported that they had experienced or intended to report cases of child abuse and domestic violence if they suspected, saw, or heard any case of violence against children and domestic violence in the community. The same question was asked of the children about child abuse and domestic violence. 33.7% of children reported that theyhad had an experience of and/or intention to report cases of child abuse and domestic violence whenever they suspected, saw, and/or heard any case of violence against children and domestic violence. Researchers recommended further strengthening ongoing awareness raising activities for parents and children in the project target sites on MDT’s roles and responsibilities for child protection.

Based on survey findings, researchers advised specialized and professional agencies to provide technical and methodological guidance to MDTs for them to deliver child protection services, to ensure MDT funding is reflected in the state budget, to allocate funds to all MDTs, and to monitor financial implementation.

Only 43.75% of a total 16 MDTs have had their budgets officially approved.


Since 2006, Save the Children has celebrated “Spank out Day” on April 30th of each year. In 2019, a month-long campaign was organized in target areas under the slogan “Let’s set good examples for our children”, reaching a total of 7,264 children and 6,629 adults.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

A total of 24 potential trainers undertook the courses, including specialists from Save the Children, government and universities who were trained to conduct basic training entitled “Child Protection and Multi-Disciplinary Teams” which provided in-depth understanding of the role of MDTs. Those 24 trainers then conducted basic training to 123 MDT members from 16 target sites in Ulaanbaatar city, Arkhangai and Dornod aimags. Consequently, the Authority for Family, Child and Youth Development organized national and regional training sessions involving 170 national and regional trainers and 3,600 MDT members using the methodologies and curriculum developed by Save the Children.


An international training on case management titled “Steps to Protect” was delivered in Mongolia by Save the Children International with 20 graduates receiving silver-level certificates. Those 20 trainers subsequently trained 80 MDT members using the same curriculum, conveying internationally-recognized methodologies on child protection.

Five people were prepared as Country Trainers, 24 people as Program Facilitators of the Positive Disciplining in Everyday Parenting Program in 2019. A total of 15 such programs were organized in 2019 involving 196 parents and caretakers in Ulaanbaatar city, Arkhangai and Dornod aimags. Those parents and caretakers are now aware of positive disciplining methods that they can apply in their everyday parenting.

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For the 20th year, Save the Children implemented the Social Circus project. In 2019, it was implemented together with Life-long Education Centers in Bayanzurkh and Sukhbaatar districts and Secondary School #29. The program focused on strengthening the knowledge of teachers and staff on child protection in order for them to support social circus training for children, and to promote its methodology.

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The Social Circus project made a positive impact on the rights of 599 children with special needs and children who had dropped out of school, to protection, development, and participation.

The Lifelong Education Centers of Bayanzurkh and Sukhbaatar districts took the initiative to sustain the Social Circus program in 2019 by meeting training expenses from local government funds.

Social Circus training was conducted as an extra-curricular program for interested children, to strengthen their personal and social skills.136 children aged between 7-19 participated in the training program.


The children presented Circus Mini-Shows for the public, organized by Save the Children and collaborators to promote the Social Circus methodology. Co-working with the Ministry for Education, the project disseminated the Social Circus methodology and principles and sought commitment from national and local governments for sustainable, long-term implementation of the project.

206 teachers and staff engaged in training, meetings and on the job consultations to build their knowledge and understanding of the approved Child Safeguarding Policy.

Social Circus training involved 136 children aged between 7-19. An evaluation in December 2019 of 25 children who participated in the project found that:

84 percent of children considered that their ability to express their views freely, listen to others, communicate with other children, and to participate, had improved;

88 percent of children said they had improved physical competence, such as strength, mobility, tolerance, patience, and the ability to learn new skills.

76 percent of participants reported increased self - esteem and confidence. They hadn’t known how to use circus equipment before but now they were very confident in using a range of training tools.

92 percent of respondents reported that Social Circus training was one of their most favorite and interesting activities.

Parents and caregivers’ care and attention to their children have improved. As a result of the project’s work with parents of the participants, including meeting with families, counseling, referral to basic social services, advice on child rights, and positive parenting, caregivers started to:

Promote their children’s participation in the training, attend more school activities and pay attention to the safety of their children;

Dormitory teachers at School #29, improved their communication with and understanding of children.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

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The Child Protection Resource Center of the Save the Children in Mongolia operated for the 6th year, with the aim of contributing to strengthening the child protection system by building capacity of social workers and other relevant professionals on child protection and child rights, and providing diverse methodological services.

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In 2019, the Child Protection Resource Center reached over 130,000 people in duplicated numbers, 10 times more than the previous years. CPRC’s training modules were extended and 14 training programs were delivered to more than 1000 people.


The strategy implemented for last 5 years of the CPRC was evaluated by the organization and new directions developed.

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Child protection methodologies were provided to 139,056 professionals through trainings, open seminars, on the job consultations, counselling for children and parents, library services and advocacy activities.

Under the JICA funded project “Strengthening Child Protection System in Mongolia”, Multi-Disciplinary Team members received on the job consultations, and professional case conferences were held in 9 khoroos of Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei, and Songinokhairkhan districts of Ulaanbaatar. These activities improved the capacity and skills of khoroo MDT members. For instance, khoroo #11 of Songinokhairkhan district became the Best Khoroo in the capital city, and khoroos #9 and #13 of Chingeltei district won 2nd and 3rd places respectively in the Best Khoroo awards. Khoroo #27 of Bayanzurkh district and khoroo #2 of Songinokhairkhan district became the Best MDTs in their respective districts. In addition, khoroos #9 and 11 of Chingeltei district took 1st and 2nd places respectively in an award by the Crime Prevention Council under the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs. The Award for the Best Social Worker of the district went to J.Erdenesuren, social worker of khoroo # 27 of Bayanzurgh district.

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Save the Children Mongolia Office was selected by the World Bank as Implementing Partner to manage and administer 14 Sub-projects of the Mainstreaming Social Accountability in Mongolia project involving National and local NGOs and local government in 10 aimags and in Ulaanbaatar city.

In order to tackle challenges in the education and health sectors, subprojects mainstreamed social accountability (SA) principles using SA tools, such as citizen report card, social audit, participatory monitoring, participatory planning, participatory schools, citizen score card, citizen charter, public expenditure tracking, customer satisfaction survey, and other tools. All 14 subprojects completed their project activities within the short timeframe, and the their overall performance reflected increased capacity in social accountability.

CHILD RIGHTS GOVERNANCE

CHILD RIGHTS GOVERNANCE

We continued to support the Young Voices Group of child advocates to develop their skills as child human rights defenders and as young researchers capable of monitoring the implementation of child rights in Mongolia. Save the Children organized meetings with the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders for CSOs and child advocates. A Young Voices Group representative attended the Day of General Discussion (DGD) in Geneva on “Protecting and Empowering Children as Human Rights Defenders (CHRDs)” organized by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and Child Rights Connect. The Young Voices representative participated in discussions to identify follow-up actions to implement the DGD recommendations, and exchanged information on the development and strengthening of national laws and policies for the protection and empowerment of CHRDS, including comprehensive national laws and policies on human rights defenders.

The Young Voices Group were video panelists on the online session “A case for the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a Communications Procedure (OPIC)” held in New-York to advocate to UNCRC Member States on the importance of ratification and implementation of OP3 which would enable children to raise issues independently to the UN.


Organized a Save the Children Centenary student research conference to encourage young researchers and human rights activists to focus on child rights issues and encourage the promotion of academic research on all aspects of children’s rights.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

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Administered the implementation of the second phase of the Social Accountability Sub-Projects in 10 provinces.

Administered the implementation of the second phase of the Social Accountability Sub-Projects to evaluate the implementation of UB City Education-2020 program.

Administered the implementation of the second phase of the Social Accountability Sub-Projects to evaluate the implementation of UB City Health - 2020 program.

Supported Young Voices Group activities at local and international levels.

Conducted mentorship program on Child Rights for the Mongolian Government’s Authority for Family, Child and Youth Development


The “Entrepreneurship-Focused Socioemotional Skills for the Most Vulnerable Youth in Rural Mongolia” project, funded by the Japan Social Development Fund with a budget of USD 2.7 million, managed by the World Bank, was launched in October 2019.

From March to May 2019, Save the Children and its partner organization, Development Solution, successfully organized the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for a third year, with 64 high school students participating and improving their soft skills and entrepreneurship capabilities.

CHILD POVERTY Our Child Poverty program continued its aim to assist adolescents to successfully transition to adulthood by providing entrepreneurship and socio-emotional skills training for rural youth in Mongolia:

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In 2019, the Child Poverty team prepared for the launching of the 2019-2023 project “Entrepreneurship-Focused Socioemotional Skills for the Most Vulnerable Youth in Rural Mongolia” to be implemented in 25 soums of Khovd, Zavkhan, Uvurkhangai, Govi-Sumber and Sukbaatar provinces. The project ‘s objectives will be achieved through a school-based, community-driven program targeting 6,000 school-enrolled and out-of-school youth, to support them to acquire socioemotional skills that are linked to success in school and are highly valued in the labor market.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

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M.MUNKHTSETSEG Participant of the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge 2019

I decided to challenge myself and, for the first time, I’m participating in an entrepreneurial competition. Together with friends, we decided to solve problems we face every day, rather than just doing nothing and watching them happen. The training provided prior to the competition helped us to get on the right track. I realized that I had a very different understanding of doing business. I learned the main steps to establishing a business, writing a business plan, creating a business model, team working and delegating roles and responsibilities, and many other things. I think the training was very useful.

Save the Children organized the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge for a third year. The Challenge involved 64 high school students from 9 schools, who participated in four trainings to help improve soft skills such as team working, decision making, time management, communication, and presentation. During the semi-finals, the teams were asked to develop within 12 hours an innovative product or service related to food and nutrition, and to present their ideas in 5 minutes in English to the audience and judges. As a result, 24 students in three teams from Shine Mongol Koosen, Mongol Temuulel, and Shine Ehlel schools were awarded the first three places. These three teams participated in the Global Challenge 2019, competing with 20 teams from Canada, Japan, Brazil, Cambodia, and other countries. The team from the Shine Mongol Koosen school was awarded 4th place.

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HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM

In 2019, the Humanitarian program implemented a dzud anticipation project for the first time in 7 soums of Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd provinces and carried out an impact assessment to evaluate the result of the project. As well, we carried out a community-based disaster risk assessment and capacity building training on disaster risk reduction for local emergen-cy commissions in close collaboration with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and local stakeholders.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

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A four-month response and early recovery project, funded by the Japan Platform (JPF), was implemented to support educational and psycho-social needs of flood-affected children and families in 4 flood-affected soums of Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd provinces.

1 A total of 50 officials including school managers, social workers, and teachers from 15 schools from target 4 soums were trained as Trainers of Training (ToT) to then train 81 children as “peer to peer educators” on psychological first aid (PFA). Furthermore, peer educators disseminated information and conducted training on PFA to a further 855 children.

2 A 201 million MNT conditional cash transfer program was implemented for the educational needs of 970 children of 515 flood-affected families in Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd aimags. Based on the dzud

risk map produced for Winter 2018/2019 by the meteorological agency, the early action project was implemented from December 2018 to February 2019 in 7 soums of Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd provinces that were identified as high risk areas. The early action interventions reached 3,270 people, including 1,431 children and 2,173 adults. As a result, 155,000 MNT of unconditional cash for household needs was transferred through the Khaan and State Banks; 8 sacks of livestock fodder (wheat bran) and the Herders’ Booklet in Kazakh and Mongolian languages that provided information on child protection, health care and nurturing weak livestock, were distributed to each of the 839 most vulnerable herder households, those with insufficient numbers of livestock to meet household needs.


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An impact assessment was carried in May-June 2019 to evaluate the results of the early action project. It surveyed 116 households and conducted interviews with 21 national and local stakeholders. The study revealed that beneficiaries of the early action interventions lost fewer livestock than the control or non-beneficiary group. The early interventions generated approximately USD 138 of savings per beneficiary from avoiding losses, a total of USD 115 thousand for the overall project.

In May and June 2019, we provided support, such as fuel for transportation, disinfection materials and other needful items, to 4 soum governments of Khovd province for the hygienic removal of 17,664 animal carcasses. Furthermore, in partnership with Nutag Academy NGO, Local Agriculture Department and Local Emergency Management Agency (LEMA), we organized livestock and winter preparedness training for 310 herders in 7 soums of Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd province.

Disaster preparedness training and tabletop scenario were organized in Bayan-Ulgii and Khovd provinces in January 2019 in close cooperation with the provincial emergency committee. In total, 140 official members of local emergency committees and soum governors’ offices attended the training. Furthermore, in April 2019, a child-friendly space was created and demonstrated at Khan-Uul District’s evacuation centre as part of a national level simulation.

In November 2019, a national children’s forum was conducted together with World Vision International Mongolia on the theme of “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction” for the upcoming Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (APMCDRR). 66 child members of the “Junior Rescuer” clubs from Khentii and Tuv provinces, Khan- Uul, Chingeltei, Songinokhairkhan and Baganuur districts of Ulaanbaatar participated in this consultation. Children were introduced to key policy documents such as the Sendai Framework 2030 for Disaster Risk Reduction, and best experiences of Asia Pacific countries in Disaster Risk Reduction. During the forum, children held fruitful discussions about major vulnerabilities and common risks as well as practical solutions to fight against them. Out of this consultation, the children prepared a statement which consisted of their both their commitments and their requests to national and regional leaders of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction to be heard at the Asia Pacific Ministerial Confernece on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Mongolia in July 2020.

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OTYZBAI A herder of Tsengel soum of Bayan-Ulgii province

Animal fodder was so important at the time, because summer doesn’t start until late June. Now we have the two-month supply of fodder provided by the Save the Children, I hope that we will have fewer miscarriages and stronger new-borns this year. With the cash provided, I will buy more feed for the animals. I really feel hopeful now that our livestock will increase this year and our livelihood will be more secure. Without help from Save the Children, I would have had to turn to moneylenders.

Together with NEMA and the Disaster Research Institute, a two-day workshop on disaster risk assessment was carried out for 46 officials of local emergency committees from 13 soums and provincial centre as well as 24 community members of Ulgii soums of Bayan-Ulgii province in July 2019. The workshop was organized in two formats, an indicator based approach led by NEMA, and a community-based approach led by Save the Children simultaneously. As a result, community members, including bagh governors, bagh social workers, elderly people, children and community representatives of the Ulgii soum of Bayan-Ulgii province identified existing vulnerabilities, risks and potential hazards. As a result of the workshop, community groups developed a plan of action to reduce risks and presented it to local authorities.

HUMANITARIAN PROGRAMHUMANITARIAN PROGRAM


A community health project, funded by the Denan project, USA, continued to be implemented in Tariat soum for the 7th year and Erdenemandal soum for the 2nd year. Awareness raising activities for public health, capacity building of the hospital staff, especially professional course for specialized doctors, and provision of necessary medical equipment and supplies were the main activities of the project in 2019.

HEALTHHEALTH

Tariat soum hospital conducted mobile diagnosis of 2,648 people, for general medical check-ups of 0-5-year-old children and adults, postpartum examinations, dental examinations, tuberculosis, Hepatitis B and C, and early diagnosis of non-communicable diseases.

The project provided medical tests and equipment for the inter-soum hopitals, fuel and essential emergency equipment for bagh doctors, a heated garage for the ambulance, and support for health club, all of which contributed to improved community health services by the inter-soum hospitals.

Tariat soum`s inter-soum hospital received testing kits for mobile diagnosis, enabling early diagnosis and prevention of diseases in the community.


The Health Club in Tariat soum, consisting of 20 students who work as a team under the guidance of a club teacher, continued to work effectively. The students are divided into 5 sub-groups and pass on their training to their peers. They conducted training and shared health information with 803 students, focusing on hand washing and preventing bad habits. They also shared what they had learned with their family members and friends.

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2019

HEALTHHEALTH

Billimeter to measure the jaundice of neonate was provided to Tariat hospital, and was used for all 69 newborns, of whom 4 newborns received photo-therapy.

Dental x-ray and ultrasound dental cleaning equipment were provided to Erdenemandal soum`s inter-soum hospital, enabling dentists to evaluate the oral health of community members and to disinfect dental tools. In both soums, a total of 3,349 children and 1,480 adults received oral health check-ups and dental treatment by the dentist trained by the project, and dental equipment provided in previous years.

The project provided bagh doctor emergency care equipment (respiratory rate counter, pulse-oximeter, thermometer, blood pressure monitor, stethoscope) and bags, as well as monthly fuel supply for bagh doctors in the both soums, allowing them to visit households for postnatal care and to take care of infants, elders, and people with disability. In total, 12,459 people received medical services during these visits. All necessary training and guidance were given to relevant hospital staff on the proper and effective usage of the new equipment.

With the support of the project, Tariat hospital staff built a heated garage, to ensure that the ambulance was prepared for emergency calls during winter.

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3,349

12,459 2 803


STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION(In USD) 2019 2018

ASSETS

Current assets

Cash and cash equivalents 841,713.20 855,326.68

Short term investment - -

Accounts receivable 47,033.59 8,761.87

Prepaid expenses 2,064.52 1,968.26

Total current assets 890,811.31 866,056.81

Non-current asset

Fixed Assets 104,035.02 151,164.89

Total non-current assets 104,035.02 151,164.89

TOTAL ASSETS 994,846.33 1,017,221.70

LIABILITY AND EQUITY

Liability

Accounts payable 12,064.40 9,440.58

Current tax liabilities 0.00 470.54

Reserves and liabilities – current 40,642.07 30,246.93

Deferred income 20,744.34 28,913.90

Total current liabilities 73,450.81 69,071.95

Reserves and liabilities – non-current 121,926.22 90,740.80

Deferred income 83,290.68 122,250.99

Total liabilities 278,667.71 282,063.74

Equity

Restricted fund 356,536.66 452,974.65

Revaluation reserve -

Reserve fund – assets 124,804.48 122,101.42

Accumulated result 234,837.48 160,081.89

Total equity 716,178.62 735,157.96

TOTAL LIABILITY AND EQUITY 994,846.33 1,017,221.70

FINANCIAL STATEMENTFINANCIAL STATEMENT


STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE(in USD) 2019 2018

INCOME:

Funding from projects and programs 1,782,469.77 1,163,123.93

Funding from donations and grants 750.44 28,456.95

Other income 52,190.03 41,277.43

Total income 1,835,410.24 1,232,858.31

EXPENDITURE:

Project and program expenditure 1,437,577.53 811,635.03

General administration expenditure 345,568.44 379,734.25

Total expenditure 1,783,145.97 1,191,369.28

Operational result 52,264.27 41,489.03

Non operation income (expenses) (589.27) (8,006.51)

Foreign exchange gain (loss) (340.72) (233.65)

Result for the year 51,334.28 33,248.87

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

GRANT INCOME RECEIVED FROM DONORS IN 2019

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

Save the Children Japan393,957

World Bank456,207

Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs456,423

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

178,433

START Network

141,480

Japan Platform115,968

The Denan Project21,327

KANRO9,124

Cirque du Soleil, Canada5,101

Other donors 57,390

TOTAL 1,835,410 USD


• Art Therapy Association of Mongolia

• Association of School Social Workers

• Association of Parents with Disabled Children

• Australian Volunteers for International Development and Scope Global

• Authority for Family, Youth and Child Development of Mongolia

• Authority for Health, Arkhangai aimag

• Authorities for Family and Youth and Child Development of Arkhangai and Dornod aimags

• Authorities for Education, Culture and Arts of Bayan-Ulgii, Khovd and Uvurkhangai aimags

• Autism Association

• Bayanzurkh district 9th, 23rd and 27th khoroo authority

• Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei and Songinokhairkhan districts’ branch, Association of Parents with Disabled Children

• Beautiful Hearts against Sexual Violence NGO

• Child Rights Group

• Child Rights Connect

• Christina Nobel Foundation

• Chingeltei district 9th, 10th and 13th khoroo authority

• Coordination Council of Crime prevention in Mongolia

• Council of Human Development and Reproductive Health/Rights NGOs

• D.Davaanyam, Executive director of Batzorig Foundation

• D.Sarantungaa, music teacher at International school of Ulaanbaatar

• Democracy Education Center NGO

• Department of Education of Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei and Songinokhairkhan districts

• Department of Family, Youth and Child Development of Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei and Songinokhairkhan districts

• Development Alliance NGO

• Development Solution NGO

• Disaster Research Institute

• Early Childhood Development Support Center NGO

• ECPAT Mongolia Network

• Education Institute

• “Education For All!” National Civil Society Coalition

• “ELC Advocates” Legal Firm

• Emergency Agencies of Khovd and Bayan-Ulgii aimags

• Fondation Dufresne et Gauthier

• Food and Agriculture Agencies of Khovd and Bayan-Ulgii aimags

• General secondary school of Buyant soum, Khovd aimag

• General secondary school and life

long education center of Uyanga soum, Uvurkhangai aimag

• Good Neighbors, Mongolia

• Governor’s Offices of Arkhangai, Uvurkhangai, Dornod, Khovd and Bayan-Ulgii aimags

• “Green Footprint” journalists’ association

• Human Rights Commission of Mongolia

• Inter-soum hospital in Erdenemandal soum, Arkhangai aimag

• Inter-soum hospital in Tariat soum, Arkhangai aimag

• Institute of Teachers’ Professional Development

• Khan Bank

• Khovd and Uvurkhangai aimag’s branch, Association of Parents with Disabled Children

• Labor and Social Relations Institute

• Law Enforcement University

• Life-long Education Centers of Ulaanbaatar districts

• Life-long Education Centers of Khovd and Uvurkhangai aimags

• Mandakh Naran NGO

• Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders

• Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports of Mongolia

• Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare

OUR PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERSTHANK YOU, OUR DONORS

The Rotary Club of Ashford The Denan Project, USA

Japan InternationalCooperation Agency (JICA)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of JapanSave the Children Japan

Kanro Co., Ltd., Japan Cirque Du Soleil, Canada

Japan PlatformWorld Bank Start NetworkSchweizerischen Eidgenossenschaft


• Mongolian Education alliance

• Mongolian Public Health Professionals’ Association

• Mongolian State University of Education, Department of Social work and Methodology

• Mongolian State University of Education, Teachers’ School

• Monfemnet National Network

• Municipal Emergency Management Agency

• Municipal Authority for Education

• Municipal Authority for Family and Youth Development

• “Nart Khangai” Child protection center

• National Center for Lifelong Education of Mongolia

• National Emergency Management Agency

• National Network of Child Participation Organizations

• National Network to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor

• National Center for Child Rights

• National Network for Child Protection

• National Police Agency, Division of Prevention from Juvenile Crime

• Nomt Research NGO

• Norwegian Lutheran Mission in Mongolia

• Nutag Academy NGO

• Public Procurement Partnership NGO

• Red Cross Mongolia

• School #2 of Arvaikheer soum, Uvurkhangai aimag

• School #3 and #7 of Jargalant soum, Khovd aimag

• Schools no.23, 29, 37, 39, 49, 61, 79, 127, 9, 65, 76, 67, 44, 11, 113, Shavi, Amgalan, Buyant-Ukhaa Complex Schools, Shine Ekhlel, Mongol Temuulel, Global and Shine Mongol Schools

• Sign language association

• Songinokhairkhan district 2nd, 10th

and 11th khoroo authority

• State Bank

• Strategy Academy NGO

• Swiss Development Cooperation

• The Government of Mongolia

• The PULSE Volunteer Partnership of GSK

• Transparency International

• Ulaanbaatar University

• Ulaanbaatar City Municipality

• United Nations Children’s Fund

• United Nations Development Fund

• UNITEL group

• “Viral” marketing agency

• VTV television channel

• Wealth Creators NGO

• World Bank

• World Vision Mongolia

• Young Voices Group of Save the Children

• 108 hotline and temporary shelter

PUBLICATIONS 2019

OUR PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS PUBLICATIONS 2019

A Century of Change for Children

Save the Children, 2019

Inclusive teaching methodology for regular school teachers


Methodology of teaching equivalent program to multi-grade class with children with special needs


25 years of achievements of Save the Children in Mongolia



PUBLICATIONS 2019PUBLICATIONS 2019

Methodology for raising awareness of parents, community and school workers and improving their participation


“Promoting inclusive education for every last child in Mongolia” project introduction leaflet


Safety and security guidelines for multidisciplinary team members


Financial documentation and project proposal guidelines


Diagnostic tool for evaluating children’s mental development


Methodology to observe and evaluate learning environment for inclusive education


Quarterly newsletter of “Promoting inclusive education for every last child in Mongolia” project



Communications handbook


Child protection procedure and formats


“How to address child rights violations”, public information handbook


Baseline survey of “Strengthening child protection sector in Mongolia 2018-2022” project


Series of information leaflets for parents, children and general public



Booklet for herders in Mongolian and Kazakh languages



25 years of achievements of Save the Children in Mongolia, 23-min documentary video


“Friendship”, 7.30-min video to improve knowledge and attitude of peers for children with disability and special needs


Video for parents to improve knowledge and attitude of community and parents without children with special needs, 5.30-min


Video to improve knowledge and attitude of teachers and school staffs and their best practice for children with dis-ability and special needs, 5.30-min


Comprehensive school safety baseline assessment in Mongolia

MECSS, UNICEF, World Vision, Save the Children, Ulaanbaatar, 2019


Social Circus methodology


Child protection in emergencies



PUBLICATIONS 2019

Dzud anticipation project’s introduction video, 3.50-min


Video on Dzud anticipation project outcomes, 4.50-min


Video on Educational and psychosocial support for flood-affected children and communities project, 3-min


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