Democratic Republic of the Congo

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 74.88 million
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 58.7 years
  • Human Development Index: 176 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 1.0%
  • Mean Household Composition: 5.3 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 25%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2013/2014

 

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Center for Digital Development,

The Center for Digital Development is looking for a short-term consultant to help with the Protecting Children from Digital Harm initiative.

Boston College School of Social Work Research Program on Children and Adversity,

The Research Program on Children and Adversity at Boston College is seeking Research Associates for the Early Child Development & Violence Prevention Home-Visiting Implementaton Science project inn Rwanda.

Changing the Way We Care,

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) is seeking a Program Manager who will be responsible for CTWWC’s external-facing communications including: playing a critical role in realizing the theory of change related to leveraging demonstration countries for global care system transformation; promoting strategic growth of the initiative; and ensuring good public understanding of the work of CTWWC.

Changing the Way We Care,

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) is seeking a Director who will be responsible for developing and managing an influence and engagement strategy and for providing strategic leadership, oversight and coordination of a team of CTWWC experts and partners.

Save the Children,

Save the Children is launching a survey of parents and children, and invites you to take part in their global study on children’s health, learning, well-being, and protection during the pandemic. 

International Rescue Committee (IRC),

The IRC is seeking a Child Protection Case Management Specialist to support with the development of specialised capacity building resources and competency tools. 

Alison Gerard, Emma Colvin, Andrew McGrath - Prisons and Community Corrections,

This chapter provides an overview of one of the key factors implicated in young people’s contact with the criminal justice system: the criminalisation of children with care experience.

Jennifer Rasell - Care of the State,

The concluding chapter of Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary ​​​​​​​draws together the main findings of the author's research into the changing relationships and kinship ties of children who lived in state residential care in socialist Hungary.

Jennifer Rasell - Care of the State,

This chapter from Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary centres on relationships outside the family, namely to carers, teachers, villagers and peers, as well as belonging to an ethnic community.

Jennifer Rasell - Care of the State,

The various examples in this chapter from Care of the State: Relationships, Kinship and the State in Children’s Homes in Late Socialist Hungary ​​​​​​​ show that children in care continued to have relations with their parents either figuratively or actually.