Key Initiatives

BCN promotes care issues by engaging with a wide range of influential actors at the national, regional and international level.  This includes convening conferences and workshops to share learning on issues such as strengthening national care systems, improving family-based care and collecting evidence on children’s care situations.  BCN also collaborates with other international and national organizations to advocate for the inclusion of children’s care and protection within international policy frameworks such as United Nations’ resolutions on children’s rights, and the Post SDGs Framework.

BCN and its partners are engaged in several advocacy initiatives aimed at the United Nations, including those below.
BCN has co-facilitated, and collaborated on, inter-agency initiatives to enhance the implemention of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of…
A global, cross-sectoral coalition working to prevent family separation and the unnecessary institutionalisation of children.
A regional inter-agency initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa aimed at improving the knowledge and capacities of regional and national…
BCN is committed to ensuring better collection and measurement of data on children's care.
The New York Working Group on Children without Parental Care and the Special Representative for the Secretary General (SRSG) on Violence Against…
In 2006, members of the Better Care Network formed the FBO outreach committee in order to promote better practice within the faith-based orphan care…
BCN and partners have convened, facilitated, or participated in several international and regional conferences reelated to the care and protection