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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Philip Bump - Washington Post,

This article from the Washington Post describes the impacts of the new US policy "in which families arriving at the border would be forcibly broken up, with children and parents separated from one another and detained separately."

Jennifer L. Collins, Rosalinda Jimenez , Laura J. Thomas - Child Abuse & Neglect,

The investigators specifically queried the phenomenon of seeking healthcare services after foster care drawing from the Phenomenology of Practice approach.

Peejay D. Bengwasan - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study explores the prediction that child abuse and neglect has an impact on Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales 5th Edition (SB5) IQ scores, in relation to gender, age and type of abuse experienced.

Mélissa Goulet, Sonia Hélie, Marie-Ève Clément - Child Abuse & Neglect,

In this article, differential individual and family needs are explored in a sample of children whose case has been substantiated by Child Protection Services.

Selina Cheptonui Kogo - Africa International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (AIJMR),

This paper analyses the role of community-based child protection structures for the survival and development of orphans and vulnerable children.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action,

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action hosted a global webinar introducing the newly-released Guidance Note: Protection of Children During Infectious Disease Outbreaks (IDOs) and associated briefing paper.

Marisa Gerstein Pineau, Nat Kendall-Taylor, Emilie L’Hote, Daniel Busso - FrameWorks Institute,

This report charts public understandings of childhood, parenting and the care system, and examines how these ways of thinking complicate, and occasionally facilitate, communicating about care issues.

Rofiah Ololade Sarumi & Ann Strode - Perspectives on the Legal Guardianship of Children in Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Uganda,

This chapter looks at what the international law instruments recommend regarding the appointment of legal guardians. It provides an audit of the instruments which are applicable to the regulation of the appointment of legal guardians for children both at the global and regional levels.

PROMISE Webinar Series – From 0 to Barnahus,

This webinar will compare how Barnahus Linköping, Sweden and the Child and Youth Protection Center of Zagreb, Croatia work to achieve the Barnahus Quality Standards in their local contexts.

Melissa Gladstone, John Phuka, Richard Thindwa, Fatima Chitimbe, Kate Chidzalo, Jaya Chandna, Selena Gleadow Ware, Kenneth Maleta - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,

This paper describes the piloting of Care for Child Development through six health surveillance assistants (HSAs) in group and individual sessions with 60 caregivers and children <2 years and assessed recruitment, frequency, timings, and quality of intervention.