Key Initiatives | Better Care Network

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-2015 Development Framework.

BCN works through a number of key initiatives to promote learning and positive change to children’s care situations. In recent years this has included support for the Faith to Action initiative, which engages with the faith-based community to promote family-based care for children, the Better Volunteering, Better Care initiative, which encourages ethical volunteerism with children in care, and a regional inter-agency initiative in Eastern and Southern Africa to foster collaboration on care reform.

ReThink Orphanages

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…

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Implementation of the Guidelines

BCN has co-facilitated, and collaborated on, inter-agency initiatives to enhance the implemention of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of…

BCN is committed to ensuring better collection and measurement of data on children's care.

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Violence Against Children and Care

The New York Working Group on Children without Parental Care and the Special Representative for the Secretary General (SRSG) on Violence Against…

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Faith to Action Initiative

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…

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Better Mining of Data

BCN and its partners are working to advocate for better collection and analysis of data on children’s living arrangements in order to allow countri

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Regional & International Conferences

BCN and partners have convened, facilitated, or participated in several international and regional conferences reelated to the care and protection

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UN Advocacy

BCN and its partners are engaged in several adocacy initiatives aimed at the United Nations.

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Tracking Progress Initiative

The Tracking Progress Initiative is an interagency project, co-facilitated by the Better Care Network and Save the Children, to develop a tool to…

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