Honduras

Explores the principles of the Draft UN Guidelines governing the prevention of resort to alternative care and provides a short case study on successful programming

Provides a formal mechanism to determine the best interests of the child as a mechanism within a child protection system

A qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of northwestern Tanzania

Examines the challenges posed in monitoring and ensuring child protection in informal and formal fostering in post-conflict areas.

A great change is coming over childhood in the world’s richest countries. Today’s rising generation is the first in which a majority is spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. This Report Card discusses the opportunities and risks involved in the child care transition, and proposes internationally applicable benchmarks for early childhood care and education.

Investigation of intercountry adoption agencies on the internet and their compliance with the UNCRC.

Explores causal relationship between increased international adoption and increase in institutional care of children in Europe.

A manual for starting and improving rehabilitation and recovery services for freed slaves, including child victims of slavery, trafficking, the worst forms of child labor, and forced marriages.

Examines the institutional challenges in implementing national social protection programmes

These standards were drafted as part of a reform initiative programme in Ghana to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort