Kenya

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 44.86 million
  • Population under 15: 42%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 62 years
  • Human Development Index: 145 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 5.3%
  • Mean Household Composition: 3.9 members
  • Female-Headed Households: 32%
  • Early Marriage (% of girls married by 15 years): 29%

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

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Charles H. Zeanah, Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Anna T. Smyke, Peter Marshall, Susan W. Parker, Sebastian Koga,

This paper provides an overview of the largest longitudinal investigation of institutionalized children less than 2 years old ever conducted. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project is an ongoing randomized controlled trial of foster placement as an alternative to institutionalization in abandoned infants and toddlers being conducted in Bucharest, Romania.

Republic of Moldova,

This document presents the social assistance law of Moldova.

El Congreso de la República de Guatemala,

La presente ley tiene por objeto crear y regular el Sistema Nacional de Protección
Integral de la Niñez y Adolescencia.

Kingdom of Thailand,

This Act outlines the rights of children in Thailand.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Fam i lies Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children's Bureau Office on Child Abuse and Neglect,

This manual - the first in a series - provides an overview of the problem of child abuse and neglect and the prevention and intervention processes.

Elena Rossi,

Le choix entre rapatrier un enfant séparé ou le garder dans le pays d’accueil est une question extrêmement complexe et délicate. Cette question nécessite une plus grande réflexion dans le cas d’enfants qui ne sont pas des demandeurs d’asile ou des réfugiés.

Professor Kevin Browne and Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis,

This 15-month project aimed to map the number and characteristics of children under three placed in European institutions for more than three months without a parent as this information was previously unknown.

Help Age International and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance ,

A publication by International AIDS Alliance and HelpAge International provides an overview of the issues identified by older people and orphans and vulnerable children themselves; examples of community-based programs that are improving the lives of older people and orphans and vulnerable children; recommendations that will help to prioritize orphans and their carers within HIV/AIDS and wider development policies, programs and research.

Save the Children Alliance,

A comprehensive guide to organizing consultations with groups of children or young people, and the role of adults in creating a safe and enabling environment for meaningful child participation.

Christina Groark, Robert McCall, Rifkat Muhamedrahimov, Natalia Nikoforova and Oleg Palmov,

Through a review of orphanages in St. Petersburg, Russia, this study examines the causal roles of consistency in caregivers and appropriate caregiving behaviors in the social, emotional, and development of young children.