Uganda

Undertaking a connected person / family and friends assessment is designed to help social workers to manage and complete a comprehensive and evidence-based assessment of connected people / family and friends who wish to foster or be special guardians to a known child or children.

The general objective of this study was to conduct a research on the possible issue of institutionalisation in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries in order to strengthen the knowledge of the European Commission on the nature, the extent and scope of institutionalisation and feasibility of de-institutionalisation (alternative care for children).

This study contributes to the emerging body of South African literature on care leaving, as it explores the future selves and resilience factors of young people who are still in residential care and who are about to exit the statutory system.

The ‘Study on Alternative Care Community Practices for Children in Cambodia, including Pagoda-based care’ (published in Khmer) is the first of its kind which sheds light on how different forms of alternative care are being used in the community.

This study commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation of the Kingdom of Cambodia and UNICEF Cambodia  sheds light on how different forms of alternative care are being used in the community.

This edited collection explores the background and implementation of the Nordic Barnahus (or 'Children's House') model – recognised as one of the most important reforms related to children who are the victims of crime in the Nordic region.

This paper presents qualitative findings of the resilience processes of young women who have left the care of Child and Youth Care Centres in Gauteng, South Africa.

In this book, anthropologist Kristen E. Cheney explores the unique experience of AIDS orphanhood through the eyes of children, caregivers, and policymakers.

This paper, produced for the Know Violence global learning initiative, looks at the violence children experience in closed institutions in the Central Asian countries, specifically the former Soviet republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Cette nouvelle publication du SSI sur les échecs de l'adoption internationale a pour vocation d'accompagner et d'outiller les professionnels des Autorités Centrales et compétentes et des organismes agréés d'adoption, les personnes adoptées et les parents adoptifs, afin de mieux prévenir et gérer les crises voire échecs que peuvent traverser les familles adoptives.