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.

This webinar brings together governments, civil society organisations, people with lived experience, researchers, faith leaders and development partners to explore how to move from policy to implementation in strengthening family-based care and transforming child protection systems across Africa.

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.

ISS and ISS West Africa, in collaboration with the child protection authorities of Burkina Faso, have been implementing since 2018 a pilot programme of specialised foster families for children living with disabilities. After six years of implementation, ISS has undertaken a capitalisation process to analyse and document this pilot experience and identify the main lessons learned, with a view to strengthening and potentially scaling up the project at a national level.

This article describes how the Government of Zimbabwe has intensified measures to support the reintegration of returning Zimbabweans.

Growing up and living with albinism in rural Nigeria was tough for Aisha*. She and her two siblings with the condition were shrouded in stigma and lived in constant fear of being mutilated or killed.

This article highlights key lessons from Ethiopia’s decades of experience in alternative care, emphasizing that strengthening families and preventing unnecessary separation should be at the center of child protection efforts.

This UNICEF article describes how in Musenyi, Burundi, a project implemented by Save the Children, with support from UNICEF and funding from the Global Humanitarian Fund, provides protection, care, and hope to Congolese refugee children sepa

The first regional Rise Up Policy Forum + Huddle will take place in Africa, from 24-26 June 2026 in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum + Huddle will explore the contexts, strengths, challenges and solutions specific to the African region, convening African child protection expertise, promoting strong national child protection systems, and creating a regional dialogue aimed at transforming child protection into a more data-informed, collaborative, and preventive system. 

This investigative documentary by Africa Uncensored uncovers the disturbing reality inside Ebenezer Children's Home in Kajiado, Kenya. Through exclusive whistleblower testimonies and secret audio recordings, it exposes allegations of systemic sexual abuse and exploitation within a facility meant to be a sanctuary for vulnerable children.