Rwanda

Demographic Data

  • Total population: 11.34 million
  • Population under 15 years: 41%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 64 years
  • Human Development Index: 163 out of 188
  • World Bank Status: Low income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence: 2.8 %
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.3 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 31%
  • Early Marriage (% of children married by 18 years): 14%

Sources: World Bank, UNICEF, UNDP HDR 2015, DHS 2014/2015

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UNICEF & the Alliance for Child Protection In Humanitarian Action,

This webinar will present guidance - including a number of front-line examples - on how to adapt Child Protection Case Management interventions to the new COVID-19 pandemic and better understand the important role of Child Protection actors in the emergency.

Human Rights Campaign,

This webinar features a panel of LGBTQ foster care alumni dedicated to creating change in the child welfare system.

Rebecca L. Butcher, M. Kay Jankowski, Eric D. Slade - Children and Youth Services Review,

A cost analysis was conducted as part of a 5-year, federally funded statewide demonstration project to install universal trauma screening in one U.S. state’s child welfare system.

Mia Roje Đapić, Gordana Buljan Flander, Krešimir Prijatelj - Archives of Psychiatry Research,

This paper reviews clinical and empirical studies related to the rates of abuse and neglect of children during health and other crises in other countries. It also analyses trends of recent data of the Ministry of Interior [of Croatia] with practical guidelines for improved child protection in this period.

Philip S Goldman, Marinus H van Ijzendoorn, Edmund J S Sonuga-Barke on behalf of the Lancet Institutional Care Reform Commission Group,

In this correspondence in the Lancet, the authors express their concerns regarding children in residential institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic and urge authorities to undertake carefully planned measures with respect to deinstitutionalisation.

Maja Laklija, Marina Milić Babić & Leah P. Cheatham -Child & Youth Services ,

This study aims to advance understanding of social workers’ perceptions of the circumstances necessitating and preventing the placement of children with disabilities (CwDs) in institutions.

Keeping Children Safe,

This briefing sets out how organisations can use the Keeping Children Safe International Child Safeguarding Standards to ensure they do all they can to protect children from harm caused by their staff, programmes, operations and partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kristina M. Scharp & Lindsey J. Thomas - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,

Framed by relational dialectics theory, a contrapuntal analysis of 104 photolistings examined the discursive tensions of what it means to be an “adoptable” child.

Yu-Jie Wen, Wen-Peng Hou, Wei Zheng, Xi-Xi Zhao, Xue-Qi Wang, Qi-Jing Bo, Christine Pao, Yi-Lang Tang, Tony Tan, Xian-Bin Li, Chuan-Yue Wang - Trauma, Violence, & Abuse,

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the neglect of left-behind children (LBC) in China.

Lars Brännström, Hilma Forsman, Bo Vinnerljung, Ylva B. Almquist - PLoS ONE,

In order to be better equipped to design interventions aimed at improving the educational outcomes of children for whom society has assumed responsibility, this study seeks to further our understanding about which factors that contribute to the educational disparities throughout the life course.