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A comparative study on the ethical responsibility of receiving countries of intercountry adoption.
This report prepared for the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare (MGECW) with financial support from UNICEF Namibia assesses the country’s capacity to manage alternative care systems for children.
Analyzes the care of children without parents in the contexts of current theoretical and policy formations and attachment theory with kin and non-kin caregivers.
In Georgia, UNICEF and EveryChild have teamed up to place children in need of alternative care in small, supervised apartments as an alternative to orphanages.
A short 2-page fact sheet on how to evaluate the suitability of a family that wishes to adopt a child.
Save the Children's "First Resort" series focuses on the needs and rights of children who, for a wide variety of reasons, are lacking adequate parental care. This third paper in the First Resort series presents practical examples of the range of options available to policy-makers, practitioners and others with responsibilities for the care and protection of children without adequate parental care.
Examines institutional and family care in post-Tsunami Indonesia. Includes situational analysis, key issues, and recommendations.
A template for assessing the suitability of kinship caregivers in the longer term, and for planning the care of a child in kinship care.
A 2-page fact sheet outlining the general priniciples to be taken into account regarding international adoption. Discusses the "adoptability" of children who have not lost their parents, but are abandoned or made vulnerable by poverty.
A brief 2-page overview of what steps should be taken if and when a social worker or other community worker admits a child to a residential institution.