Foster Care

Groundbreaking Workshop to Establish Foster Care Programs in Ethiopia
Retrak Ethiopia | Friday, September 03, 2010
Retrak Ethiopia, with support from UNICEF and members from the Ministry of Women’s and Children’s Affairs, held a 4 day training aimed to equip the participants with the skills necessary to assess potential carers, match the children with the right carers, train and follow-up the carers and children, and look at some of the key issues around attachment, origins and children’s behavior. View document

Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children - English
International Social Services and UNICEF in collaboration with NGO Working Group on Children without Parental Care | 2007 | 208 KB
Welcomed international guidelines seeking to ensure that children do not find themselves in out-of-home care unnecessarily and that out-of-home care provided is of a type and quality that corresponds to children's rights and needs. Designed to promote, facilitate and guide the progressive implementation of the CRC. View document

Improving Care Options for Children in Ethiopia through Understanding Institutional Child Care and Factors Driving Institutionalization
Family Health International | Tuesday, June 01, 2010 | 3.1MB
Findings and recommendations of the first national study of it's kind in Ethiopia to study child care institutions, institutionalized children, and factors driving institutionalization.
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The Future of Children: A Collaboration of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and The Brookings Institute
Princeton University and the Brookings Institute | Monday, May 17, 2004 | 1718KB
In assessing the practice of foster care and its current limitations, this series of articles advocates for the implementation of health assessments for all children in care, support to preserve permanency and assist birth families, comprehensive supports for foster families, specialized services for children in need, increased cultural competency in social work practice, coordinated services across sectors for families in need and comprehensive well being assessments for children in care. View document

UNICEF Namibia Terms of Reference for Consultancy on Foster Care
UNICEF Namibia | Tuesday, April 27, 2010
UNICEF Namibia with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare plans to undertake a consultancy with the overall outcome of strengthening supported formal foster care systems. View document

UNICEF Terms of Reference: Consultancy for Discussion Paper on Informal Care and its Role in Child Protection Systems
UNICEF Headquarters | Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Terms of Reference for UNICEF consultancy. Deadline is 7 May 2010

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Regulations for the Appropriate Use and Conditions of Residential Care
Government of Liberia, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare | Monday, February 01, 2010 | 106KB
Regulations and tools designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions for the safe and appropriate administration of alternative care. View document

Conference Declarations and Recommendations: First International Conference in Africa on Family Based Care for Children
ANPPCAN | Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Summary of conference declarations and recommendations prepared by over 400 conference participants emphasizing the crucial importance of family based care for children without parental care. View document

Because We Care: Programming Guidance for Children Deprived of Parental Care
Elizabeth Oswald | Monday, November 30, 2009
Provides recommendations for World Vision and partner agencies on general alternative care principles and analysis of alternative care models. View document

Keeping Children Out of Harmful Institutions
Corinna Csaky, Save the Children UK | Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Examines the latest evidence of the harm institutional care can cause to children. It explores why governments and donors continue to prioritize institutional care, despite the harm it can cause. View document