Data and Monitoring Tools

Monitoring and research are essential processes in ensuring the relevance and effectiveness of programs, and the scope and type of service provision. They are integral components of analysis, strategic planning, and implementation for government and non-governmental organisations seeking to effect change, support or provide services.

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Chapman J, Foreit K, Hickmann M, Parker ,

Ces outils de collecte de données sont des questionnaires destinés à une enquête auprès de ménages avec des enfants âgés 0 à 17 ans et les adultes du ménage qui s'occupent des enfants.

Getnet Tadele, Desta Ayode, Woldekidan Kifle,

This assessment conducted by FHI 360, with support from Ethiopia's Ministry of Women, Youth and Children Affairs (MoWYCA) and the OAK Foundation aimed to generate evidence about formal community and family- based alternative child care services and service providing agencies in Ethiopia, with a particular focus on magnitude, quality and quality-assurance mechanisms.

Myka Reinsch Sinclair, Jennine Carmichael, Obed Diener, Diana Rutherford,

A report on the evidence of children’s wellbeing relating economic strengthening programs and the need for expanded monitoring and evaluations.

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Response in the Philippines,

To better understand the impact of Typhoon Haiyan on affected population, more than 40 agencies conducted a multi-cluster initial rapid assessment (MIRA) in 9 provinces covering 92 municipalities and 283 barangays. The (MIRA) confirmed that the impacts of Typhoon Haiyan follow a relatively clear geographical pattern.

Mike Stein, Australian Social Work, 2014, Vol. 67, No. 1, 24–38,

This study compares the data on young people transitioning from out of home care from 9 non-communist European countries examined in the INTRAC document with 14 post-communist countries reviewed in the SOS and INTRAC publications. 

Florence Martin,

This report documents the work conducted by Save the Children in collaboration with the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs over a period of 7 years to strengthen the national child protection system and change the underlying paradigm for that system away from over-reliance on residential care and towards child and family centered responses.

U.S. Children's Bureau,

This chart produced by the US Government's Children's Bureau includes data submitted to the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) by US States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico by July 19, 2013.

U.S. Administration on Children, Youth and Families,

Over the last decade, the U.S. foster care population has undergone a substantial reduction in size and experienced a shift in its racial and ethnic composition. Using data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), this data brief summarizes those changes and provides new detail that identifies the geographic areas most responsible for these national trends.

Elaine Farmers, Julie Selwyn, and Sarah Meakings from the School of Policy Studies at University of Bristol, UK,

This study funded by Big Lottery and undertaken in partnership between the University of Bristol and Buttle UK, a grant-giving charity for vulnerable children, aims to fill gaps in understanding about the experiences of children living with kins, and in particular how children in informal kinship care view their situation.

Better Care Network, the Child Protection in Crisis Learning Network and the Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG),

This concept note from the Better Care Network (BCN), the Child Protection in Crisis Learning Network (CPC Learning Network) and the Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (CP MERG) calls for the participation of other leading organizations in an inter-agency coalition, the Children’s Care Research Initiative, in an effort to strengthen the evidence base around the best ways to improve care for children and to reinforce global capacity to utilize this evidence.