Nigeria

Demographic Data

  • Total Population: 173,620,000
  • Population under 15: 46%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 52.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 152 out of 187
  • World Bank Status: Lower Middle Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 3.2%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.6 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 19%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 49%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, UNAIDS, DHS 2013

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UNICEF ,

This brief provides an overview of alternative care in Cambodia, including key achievements, challenges and recommended actions for preventing and regulating residential care, and strengthening family-based care. 

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA),

The present volume contains the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly from 15 September to 24 December 2009, including the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children on page 376.

Child Welfare Outcomes - Elizabeth Fernandez and Richard P. Barth,

This book features individual empirical studies on the outcomes and progress made for children in foster care around the world.

Service Social international (SSI),

Le SSI/CIR a conduit une étude sur la place de la santé des enfants adoptés dans le processus de l'adoption. Afin de brosser un tableau aussi complet que possible, des informations tirées de la pratique ont été collectées par voie de questionnaire, et différents systèmes mis en place à travers le monde ont été analysés.

Mia DAMBACH et Christina BAGLIETTO,

Ce rapport examine les pratiques de l'adoption internationale suite au tremblement de terre en Haïti. Haïti a été un pays d'origine «populaire», en ce sens que des milliers d'enfants se trouvaient à un certain stade du processus d'adoption- parfois simplement "identifiés" comme potentiellement adoptables - au moment du séisme. Les réponses des «pays d'accueil » et autres relatives à l'adoption ultérieure des enfants déplacés à l'étranger furent diverses et contrastées. 

National Council for Law Reporting with the Authority of the Attorney General,

The Children Act, Chapter 141 is a Kenyan law that addresses provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children; provision for the administration of children’s insti

Cantwell, N.,

Depuis des siècles, la situation des « orphelins » et des enfants abandonnés a généré non seulement des préoccupations, mais aussi des réponses concrètes de divers types. Ces réactions ont suscité des remises en question assez fondamentales, notamment pour ce qui est des placements en institution et, plus récemment, des justifications admissibles pour que la séparation des enfants d’avec leurs parents soit avalisée, voire imposée, par les autorités. 

Canadian Red Cross ,

The Canadian Red Cross has produced a handbook on the prevention of violence against children. The handbook includes specific guidance on preventing violence against vulnerable children, such as children in institutions, children involved in armed conflict and children with disabilities.

Celia Hannon, Claudia Wood, Louise Bazalgette ,

This report by the UK-based independent think tank, Demos, considers what the UK care system would look like if it were reconfigured to avoid the delay, instability, and abrupt transitions many young people experience. It demonstrates how this type of system could also be less costly to the states in both the short and long term.

UNAIDS,

This report, produced by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS provides an update on the global AIDS epidemic as well as information on HIV prevention and treatment, HIV/AIDS as it relates to human rights and gender, HIV investments, HIV/AIDS estimates and data, and country progress indicators and data. Particularly relevant to children’s care are the sections on children orphaned due to the loss of one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.