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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Rosalinda Coppoletta, Philippe De Vreyer, Sylvie Lambert, and Abla Safir ,

Using data from a nationally representative household survey conducted in Senegal in 2006-2007, the survey Pauvreté et Structure Familiale, this paper studies the long-term outcomes for adults who have been fostered in their childhood, including children fostered to Koranic schools. It focuses its analysis on education, first employment and current employment as well as on marriage. Findings show that the long-term impacts of fostering are heterogeneous and depend on various reasons including the locations of fostering, host parents, fostering age, and gender.

UNICEF,

This report provides data on children living in urban settings, including statistics, conditions, and personal testimonies. The report also includes UNICEF’s recommendations for policy regarding children in urban settings, working with this population, and for future action. Sections that are relevant to children’s care include: children living and working on the streets, migrant children, urban emergencies, and many more.

The University of Nottingham,

This comprehensive manual provides an overview of child abandonment and its prevention in Europe, exploring the extent of child abandonment, possible reasons behind this phenomenon, the consequences of abandonment, and good practices in terms of prevention. For the purposes of the EU Daphne-funded project, child abandonment is defined in two ways, namely open and secret abandonment. Country specific in-depth reviews of child abandonment and its prevention are provided for 10 countries and results from an EU-wide survey analyzed.

UNAIDS,

This report, produced by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS provides an update on the global AIDS epidemic as well as information on HIV prevention and treatment, HIV/AIDS as it relates to human rights and gender, HIV investments, HIV/AIDS estimates and data, and country progress indicators and data.

Simon Beck, Phillippe De Vreyer, Sylvie Lambert, Karine Marazyan, and Abla Safir ,

Using a nationally representative household survey conducted in 2006-2007 in Senegal, this study sheds light on the common practice of fostering (confiage) by examining the characteristics of households and individuals involved in fostering, the motivation for fostering and its impact on host households, sending households, and the foster child, with a focus on education, employment and marriage outcomes.

Mike Steina, Annick-Camille Dumaretb - Children and Youth Services Review Volume 33, Issue 12 - Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood,

This paper explores the research evidence from England and France on the mental health of young people aging out of care and into adulthood.

Jorge F. del Vallea, Susana Lázaro-Visab, Mónica Lópeza, Amaia Bravoa,

The authors of this article carried out a follow-up study of 143 young adults leaving kinship care. They assessed the young adults’ transition to adulthood with interviews and questionnaires. A small part of the sample presented serious problems of social exclusion. Seventy percent had found employment or were in higher education. The youth had frequently suffered the loss of foster carers and lack of support.

National Council for Children's Services ,

This document contains the national framework for the child protection system in Kenya, developed with the intention of improving linkages between different sectors for more a more coordinated approach to protecting children. 

The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Community Development of Malawi; Centre for Social Research (CSR) of the University of Malawi; UNICEF Malawi,

This study commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Community Development and financially and technically supported by UNICEF and the Better Care Network, describes the situation of children in institutional care in Malawi.

Consortium for Street Children ,

This report presents a unique Literature Review of international research studies about street children published during the decade from 2000 to 2010.