Namibia

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 2.403 million
  • Population under 15: 37%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 64.8 years
  • Human Development Index: 126 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Upper Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.2 members
  • Female-Headed Households: 44%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years):  7%

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

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UNICEF and Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ,

Event to launch two new reports on importance of deinstitutionalization for all persons

PEPFAR, UNICEF and UNAIDS,

PEPFAR, UNICEF and UNAIDS are pleased to invite you to participate, via webinar, in the Fifth Global Partners Forum on Children affected by HIV and AIDS that is taking place in New York on the 3rd and 4th of June

Carolyn Bancroft - The Center on Child Protection, University of Indonesia,

The study described in this report set out to identify and systematically learn about the functioning of existing community-based child protection mechanisms in Aceh, Indonesia.

Child Frontiers, Ltd. - Plan, Save the Children & UNICEF,

Executive summary

Karadağ Çaman Ö and Özcebe H.,

Adolescents living in orphanages are at a disadvantage with respect to mental health. The aim of this study was to assess the distribution of psychological symptoms and their association with the level of physical activity (PA) in adolescents living in orphanages.

Disability Rights International and the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos,

This report is the product of a year-long investigation and collaboration between Disability Rights International (DRI) and the Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH).  From August 2009 through September 2010, DRI and the CMDPDH investigated psychiatric institutions, orphanages, shelters, and other public facilities that house children and adults with disabilities. 

Andrew A. Dunn,

This independent assessment examined, specifically, the deinstitutionalisation of children in special education boarding schools and child care institutions in the Republic of Georgia.

Fourth CSO Forum on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child,

The following recommendations were made to the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child in relation to children without appropriate care.

STOP AIDS NOW,

This Source Book is a practical guide for service providers working with children in Malawim specifically in psychosocial support services to orphans and other vulnerable children

EveryChild ,

This paper summarizes the evidence base on residential care to promote better decision making among policy makers and child welfare practitioners