Emergency Relief Assistance Program

As an organization with the dual mission of development and humanitarian assistance, Save the Children raises funds for emergency relief assistance, early reconstruction, and risk reduction during emergencies and disasters in Mongolia, and has provided humanitarian assistance since 1999 to aimags, soums, and herder families most affected by dzuds and floods.

Children are more severely affected by natural and man-made disasters and emergencies. Save the Children's Emergency Relief Assistance Program provides timely quality humanitarian assistance to vulnerable children and families affected by disaster, and helps them prepare for potential disasters. We pay special attention to education during disasters and child protection. Save the Children is an active member of the Humanitarian Country Team in Mongolia, working with the government to respond to emergencies, and co-leading the Education Cluster with UNICEF Mongolia.

We provide humanitarian assistance to families affected by dzud, floods and other events, and cooperate with relevant organizations to reduce the risk of disasters.

Save the Children implemented the project Strengthening Child Protection in Disasters and Emergencies and Child-Centreed Disaster Risk Reduction 2011-2016 as part of the Humanitarian Program. During dzuds that occurred between 1999 and 2017, we provided assistance to protect the livelihoods of herder households, health services for herder families, and education support for herders' children. We offered child protection recommendations to herder parents, psychological first aid, and environmental and hygiene support.

The project drew the attention of professional organizations to child protection, disaster risk reduction and risks during emergencies, and conducted a Comprehensive Baseline Study of Secondary School Safety (2017) and a Community-Based Disaster Risk Review (2019) for the first time in Mongolia. We introduced psychological first aid for children in 2016, trained mid-level staff and volunteers of the Mongolian Red Cross Society, rescuers and psychologists from the Capital City Emergency Management Agency, and education and child protection specialists from eight aimags.