Zimbabwe

Demographic Data:

  • Total Population: 15,245,855
  • Population under 15: 41.6%
  • Life Expectancy at Birth: 57.5 years
  • Human Development Index: 155 out of 188 
  • World Bank Status: Low Income
  • HIV/AIDS Prevalence (age 15-49): 16.7%
  • Mean Household Composition: 4.1 persons
  • Female-Headed Households: 44.6%

Sources: World Bank, UNDP, DHS 2010-11

 

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Family Health International,

Manual aims to develop awareness, reinforce knowledge, and assist those designing, implementing, or managing programs for children and youth affected by poverty, HIV and AIDS, and other diseases.

Save the Children UK,

Brief recognizes the potential opportunities ICA can provide a child but examines the problems and risks frequently associated with the practice.

Nginza International,

Request for best practice examples for use in case studies

M. Norberg, A. Sahlback; Contributions from L. Fox and R. Gotestam for UNICEF,

This folder contains guidance and planning and assessment tools to implement reform of national social care financing from institutionalized care to a family and community-based framework.

UNICEF,

Comprehensive update on the situation and responses underway following January’s Earthquake in Haiti. Reports on the full spectrum of the response including health, nutrition, education, early childhood development and the scale-up of protection mechanisms to prevent exploitation and abuse of children.

ECPAT International,

Guidance on setting up prevention programs to reduce child protection risks to children and young people, and in particular to prevent commercial sexual exploitation.

Linda Richter,

Presentation by Linda Richter at the CCABA & IAS for the Meeting on Children and Especially Marginalized Populations on the 10-11th February 2010 in Geneva.

Women's Refugee Commission,

Key messages and guidance for action

Inter-Agency Standing Committee,

Provides guidance to organisations working in Haiti about how they can most appropriately communicate with communities, their own personnel and the media. The Guidance Note focuses mainly on the acute phase of the response (including early recovery) and provides basic guidance for action.

Conseil de l'Europe-Comité des Ministres aux Etats membres,

La Recommandation CM/Rec(2010)2 du Conseil de l'Europe relative à la désinstitutionalisation des enfants handicapés et leur vie au sein de la collectivité appelle les Etats membres à prendre toutes les mesures législatives, administratives et autres afin de remplacer la prise en charge institutionnelle par des services de proximité dans un délai raisonnable et dans le cadre d’une démarche globale.