Zimbabwe

This 15-month project aimed to map the number and characteristics of children under three placed in European institutions for more than three months without a parent as this information was previously unknown.

A publication by International AIDS Alliance and HelpAge International provides an overview of the issues identified by older people and orphans and vulnerable children themselves; examples of community-based programs that are improving the lives of older people and orphans and vulnerable children; recommendations that will help to prioritize orphans and their carers within HIV/AIDS and wider development policies, programs and research.

A comprehensive guide to organizing consultations with groups of children or young people, and the role of adults in creating a safe and enabling environment for meaningful child participation.

Through a review of orphanages in St. Petersburg, Russia, this study examines the causal roles of consistency in caregivers and appropriate caregiving behaviors in the social, emotional, and development of young children.

Situation analysis of Afghan children living in institutional care. Includes detailed recommendations for strengthening policies and services in the child welfare system.

Focuses on the work of the Butterflies Programme for Street and Working Children in India. Advocates for participatory approaches in child-focused development work.

Outlines a wide range of interventions designed to protect street children, ranging from prevention and reunification to vocational training, economic support, and improved rural infrastracture.

Explores the relationship between fostering and education in West Africa. Identifies special need to focus on protecting and educating young girls.

An overview of the largest longitudinal investigation of institutionalized children less than 2 years old ever conducted.

Follow-up analysis of reintegration for demobilized child soldiers in Rwanda. Concludes with lessons learned for successful reintegration.