Registration, Documentation and Tracing

Registration and documentation of separated and unaccompanied children are essential steps towards tracing and reunifying children with their families. Such separation can be highly traumatic and requires immediate action by a designated body to expedite the process. This is particularly vital when children are very young and far less able to cope without parental care or to remember essential details about their home and parents. 

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International Social Service ,

Discusses risks associated with using adoption in emergency settings. Additional consideration given on where adoptions can be safely and appropriately facilitated for children with adoptions underway prior to the earthquake.

Inter-Agency Group,

Guidance on use of early psychosocial interventions in humanitarian responses to help to mitigate the effect of trauma, alleviating psychological distress, and strengthen resiliency.

Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute,

The Adoption Institute offers this policy brief, with the purpose of examining the role of intercountry adoption in situations such as the one caused by the tsunami – that is, during natural disasters, armed conflicts, and other complex human emergencies

Hague Conference on Private and International Law ,

In this Information Note, the Hague Convention urges that the focus in emergencies should first be on child protection, rather than adoption. In the spirit of this Recommendation, it is clear that in a disaster situation, like that brought about by the earthquake, efforts to reunite a displaced child with his or her parents or family members must take priority. Premature and unregulated attempts to organise the adoption of such a child abroad should be avoided.

Child Protection Working Group,

Address key messages and considerations for preventing separation; ensuring identification, tracing and family reunification is prioritized; and facilitating interim care, alternative care and adoption where necessary.

Save the Children UK ,

Using lessons learnt in emergencies, from the genocide in Rwanda to the Asian Tsunami and the earthquake in Haiti, our new report, Misguided Kindness, demonstrates what action is needed to keep families together during crises and to bring separated children back into a safe and nurturing family life.

IRC, Save the Children and UNICEF,

Sample documents to the Information Management System

Isabel de Bruin-Cardoso & Ruth Mampane, IATT Working Group on Children Affected by HIV and AIDS,

Examines dynamics between achievements in universal birth registration and enhanced protection of children.

United Nations High Commission on Refugees,

Provides a formal mechanism to determine the best interests of the child as a mechanism within a child protection system

UNICEF Indonesia ,

Contains an overview of programming to prevent and respond to separated and unaccompanied children, including care arrangements. Includes a training program.