Nigeria

Join this continuation of CAFO's last webinar, "10 Key Principles for Protecting Vulnerable Children and Families during a Global Pandemic, to hear how practitioners are helping vulnerable children during a global pandemic.

This webinar focused on the impacts of COVID-19 on the care system and care workers, how social protection systems are responding to the impacts of the pandemic on care work, and the extent to which the crisis and policy responses are gender-transformative.

This webinar aspires to share examples of successful approaches for supporting the most vulnerable families and young children during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Ukraine.

This document sets out the draftadvocacy messages and recommendations for donors, governments, and civil society, which were prioritised by participants of the December 2019 Learning Session co-hosted by the Coalition for Children Affected by AIDS and the World Health Organization to develop an evidence-informed advocacy agenda on adolescent mothers affected by HIV and their children.

This Policy Brief by the United Nations highlights the impact of COVID-19 on persons with disabilities and in doing so, outlines key actions and recommendations to make the response and recovery inclusive of persons with disabilities.

Child's i Foundation in Uganda has donated bicycles, smartphones, face masks and bottles of sanitizer to volunteers in Makindye division, Kampala to support them in their work to "sensitize residents about the spread of COVID-19" and so that the volunteers can "reach places that are inaccessible" and give timely reports on the needs of the community, particularly vulnerable children and families, according to this article from the Daily Monitor.

This article illuminates the important role the Committee on the Rights of the Child played in monitoring child abuse and neglect in the implementation of the now thirty years old Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and resilience in Eritrean unaccompanied refugee minors living with foster parents in Sudan.

With a recent interest by stakeholders in Ghana to consider kinship care as an alternative care option in child welfare policy, this study explores current kinship care challenges to help identify and address potential setbacks for policy and practice recommendations.

In this study, the authors interviewed social care practitioners including directors, senior and middle managers, frontline social workers, social worker‐academics and family support workers who work with vulnerable children to identify the issues and concerns held by social care workers about placing vulnerable children in boarding schools.