The Learning Journey is a 12-session structured pathway (90 minutes each, via Zoom), delivered over approximately six months through a series of interactive online sessions. It is designed to build a shared understanding of child wellbeing, child protection, family-based care, and systems reform, exploring how the Family-First Framework can help strengthen national systems so every child can thrive in a family.

The Second Africa Childcare Forum (ACFMombasa2026) is a continental and global co-learning platform accelerating quality, affordable, and inclusive childcare systems across Africa. The Forum will build on the momentum from ACFKigali2025, creating a continental and global co-learning platform to accelerate quality, affordable, and inclusive childcare systems across Africa.

Join Nyaka, a Ugandan community-led organisation with 25 years of experience strengthening families through education, healthcare, child protection and economic empowerment, and a proud member of Transform Alliance Africa, for an engaging webinar exploring the transformative role of grandmothers in caring for children without parental care.

Join Nyaka, a Ugandan community-led organisation with 25 years of experience strengthening families through education, healthcare, child protection and economic empowerment, and a proud member of Transform Alliance Africa, for an engaging webinar exploring the transformative role of grandmothers in caring for children without parental care.

This article highlights how orphanage trafficking in Africa often occurs within countries, with children being recruited or separated from their families and placed into institutions for profit and exploitation rather than legitim

This article documents an emotional reunification in Rwanda where dozens of former child combatants—many of whom had been recruited or raised within armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo—are reconnected with their families after undergoing rehabilitation and reintegration support.

This technical brief examines how the meaningful participation of children and young people with lived experience (PWLE) in alternative care can strengthen child protection systems, improve service quality, and influence policy reform. It presents international examples from Ireland, Scotland, the United Kingdom, Moldova, Kenya, Romania, Albania, and the United States, illustrating how children and care leavers contribute to individual case planning, service design, regulatory monitoring, advocacy, and national care reform.

This chapter examines the effectiveness of Zimbabwe’s National Case Management System in protecting the rights and meeting the needs of children in street situations in Harare. It identifies key challenges—including limited resources, weak coordination, stigma, and gaps in social protection integration—and calls for reforms to strengthen child participation, staffing, funding, and trauma-informed, rights-based support.

Over three years, MJF Global partnered with Child’s i Foundation to strengthen foster care and family-based care systems in Uganda. This report explores the impact, challenges and lessons that emerged from the partnership, highlighting Child’s i’s community-led approach to family strengthening, foster care, reunification and collaboration with government systems.

This article describes how the Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening child protection and improving conditions in orphanage homes through stricter regulation, oversight, and collaboration with care providers.