This newsletter is the first of three newsletters concerning care reform in Moldova. The Child and Family Magazine was produced by Partnerships for Every Child (P4EC), an NGO in Moldova, with funding from the project, “Protecting children in Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation,” which is funded by USAID/DCOF. In addition to deinstitutionalization and other care reform work in the three raions (districts) of Calarasi, Falesti, and Ungheni, the project is also working at a national level on laws, policies, and procedures regarding child care and protection. The project is funded through EveryChild, and the three newsletters were translated into English by EveryChild.
This issue of the magazine offers opinions, analysis, and updates from the most important local and central actors and decision makers in the child protection field. The articles include suggestions for promoting family-oriented policy, updates and recommendations for the national strategy and action plan for the child care system reform, a news item on the Ungheni Social Assistance and Family Protection Department’s reception of a 2012 UN Human Rights award, and an analysis of the mid-term evaluation of the project “Protecting children in Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect & exploitation.”
The issue also includes a call for reform of the Republican Phthisio-Pulmonologic Center for Rehabilitation of Children from Cornesti in the Ungheni raion, which the article states is not meeting the standards of the residential care reform launched five years ago in Moldova. Furthermore, the issue contains articles describing future work to be done in reforming the Hirbovat school for children with hearing deficiencies as well as the strategies being implemented in the deinstitutionalization of children and institutionalization prevention in the Falesti raion. The issue concludes with a detail of the “draft law on social protection of children at risk and of children separated from parents” and the existing gaps in the child protection system that drove the introduction of that draft law.
©Newsletter issue no. 1 of the Project "Protecting children of Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation"
