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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ISS, ICCB, DCI, and Save the Children Alliance,

Guidance on the importance of preventing family separation and ensuring reintegration with families, communities or country of origin.

Judith S. Rycus, Ronald C. Hughes ,

Web based 4 volume manual on child welfare and social work. The Field Guide covers the fundamental competencies of a family-centered approach to child welfare practice.

Save the Children,

Comprehensive guide to programming for separated children. Includes chapters on agency co-ordination, prevention, documentation, tracing, reunification and emergency and interim care placements.

Save the Children Alliance, UNHCR, UNICEF and OHCHR,

A training resource pack on preventing the separation of children from their caregivers, assessing and locating separated children, care arrangements, family tracing and reunification, and monitoring and supporting separated children.

This document is a guideline to facilitate good policy and practice within both institutional care and community-based care settings for children in Ethiopia. It addresses the physical environment, staffing, gatekeeping, child services, reunification, adoption and general administration.

State of Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families,

These regulations were developed in the United States (in the state of Rhode Island) to assess all individuals who care for children away from their legal parents. It may contain useful information for organizations and countries that are developing their own regulations for foster carers.

Iman Bibars,

This paper explores the factors surrounding the lives of children that live on the streets or in institutions in Egypt.

Institute for Human Services, Excerpted from Rycus, J.S. & Hughes, R.C., Field Guide to Child Welfare, Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America,

An overview of the basic principles of child welfare that social workers should follow in order to prevent family separation and promote quality care for children.

Government of Uganda,

The Children Act, Chapter 59 took effect in Uganda on 1 August, 1997.

Nana Apt - Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana,

This chapter provides an overview of a child care institution, the Osu Children’s Home, in Ghana.