Save the Children

Carolyn Miles. Carolyn S. Miles is President & Chief Executive Officer for Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of more than 70 million children in need in the United States and 120 countries around the world. Carolyn became the first woman to head Save the Children in September 2011, after joining the organization in 1998… See full bio.

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Story: Save the Children responds to three basic types of emergencies — each type determines the nature and scale of our support. They are:

• Sudden-Onset Emergency: earthquakes, floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, cyclones, industrial accidents, and war or political reprisals.
• Slow-Onset Emergency: drought, desertification, deforestation, pest infestations, epidemics, pandemics, and war or political reprisals.
• Complex Emergency: internal and external dislocation, famine, war and civil breakdown.

Who is at Greatest Risk?

Save the Children believes in the rights of all individuals to receive aid in an emergency, based on need. However, women and children face disproportionate risks in emergencies, such as forcible displacement and human rights violations, so emergency responses often are planned to meet their immediate needs.

In emergencies, children are particularly vulnerable to being separated from their families, recruited into armed forces, exploited sexually and made victims of gender-based violence, such as rape. Groups particularly at risk during an emergency include: disabled children, child combatants, gender-based violence survivors, adolescents, out-of-school youth, unaccompanied minors and orphans.

Responding

In keeping with our programming principles, Save the Children develops and maintains a range of different local and international partnerships with INGOs, CBOs and UN agencies to add value to our emergency work through collaborative approaches. This includes engagement in the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), the IASC as noted above, InterAction, the Emergency Capacity Building (ECB) Project, the Sphere Project, the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR) and others. Save the Children is also engaged in a wide variety of humanitarian partnerships at regional and national levels.

Save the Children's collaborative approaches with the UN in particular are guided by the Global Humanitarian Platform Principles of Partnership, which include equality, transparency, result-orientation, responsibility and complementary assistance.

Evidence of Impact Summary:

Save the Children does high quality, technically strong work with a special focus on the welfare and development of children. Moreover, through sharing their knowledge, they have made a strong impact on the international NGO emergency community.
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Organization Strengths Summary:

Save the Children's staff is strong, recognized as thought leaders in child protection and emergency work in complex environments. Experts also noted the organization's strong internal policies and commitment to vulnerable children.
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Areas for Improvement Summary:

Although some experts cite inter-federation collaboration as one of Save the Children's strengths, other experts believe coordination between the sister organizations could be more effective and efficient.
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Carolyn S. Miles is President & Chief Executive Officer for Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of more than 70 million children in need in the United States and 120 countries around the world. Carolyn became the first woman to head Save the Children in September 2011, after joining the organization in 1998 and serving as its Chief Operating Officer for the past seven years. She has traveled to Save the Children’s field operations in nearly 50 countries, and during her tenure as COO Save the Children doubled the number of children it reaches with food, educational, and other programs, and helped grow the organization’s budget – 90 percent of which goes directly to programs serving children – from $140 million to more than $550 million. As CEO, Carolyn has called attention to the urgent need for Save the Children and other organizations – public, private, nonprofit and for-profit – to cooperate and share their resources and expertise for the benefit of the world’s children. She has also emphasized the need to use social media and new technology to extend the organization’s reach and fully engage with Save the Children’s employees, volunteers, beneficiaries, donors, partners and others around the world. To this end, she launched her own blog, “Logging Miles,” and is committed to employing social media to extend Save the Children’s reach, building on such successes as its Twitter-based campaign that reached nearly 900 million people to raise awareness of the child hunger crisis in East Africa. She can also be found on Twitter @carolynsave.

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