Nigeria

The One Step Forward book is a visual guide to resilience, written and illustrated by young people in foster care.

The Federal Government in 2010 together with the Lagos State Government embarked on a pilot test to map and assess the existing components of Child Protection in Lagos and Child Frontiers was recruited to undertake the mapping and assessment.

The main objective of the mapping and assessment is to identify the major gaps in the current child protection system in each state, which will provide the basis for specific suggestions on how to improve the existing child protection system at the state and LGA level. 

This handbook offers a compendium of Zambian juvenile law, including the processing of juveniles in the criminal justice system.

Analyzing Malaysian and international practices in regards to “baby-dumping,” the authors of this research article are raising awareness of the punitive approach of the criminal justice system in handling baby dumping cases in Malaysia and other countries, as well as the limited, although important, prevention opportunities.

This literature review highlights the practices, policies and research on violence and abuse prevention in early childhood. it is guided by a socio-ecological model of contexts, participants and interactional complexity.

This “roadmap” document outlines  the recommended implementation strategies and activities for strengthening  family- and community-based alternative care in Liberia. It accompanies the Guidelines on Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living (the Guidelines) and the Capacity Building Plan to Implement the Guidelines (CBP).

In a statement filed by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, children have been brought into Kerala, the state in India, in order to supplement a shortage of orphans and “destitute children” at the orphanage at Mukkam at Kozhikode. 

The first issue of the Journal has been published and now, ICEB is inviting abstracts for the next and second issue, which will come out in September 2014. 

The Journal “Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond” (ICEB) wants “(t)o make available a platform for consistent sharing of information, knowledge enhancement and the development of a dialogue and debate amongst professionals, pol