This presentation by Amy Bess & Janestic Twikirize of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance (GSSWA), given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, presents a working paper by GSSWA and BCN on the role that building the capacity of social service workers has in reforming child care systems.

This presentation from Fr. Robert Sihubwa, Chairperson of the Zambia Association of Child Care Workers, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, provides an overview of the status of child care workers in Zambia and their role in, and contributions to, care reform.

This presentation from Benson Chisanga, of the University of Zambia’s Department of Social Development Studies, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, provides basic information on opportunities for the training of the social service workforce in Zambia, focusing on levels of training, challenges, and future prospects.

This presentation from the Zambia Rising project, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, highlights the two key challenges facing Zambia’s social work workforce that Zambian delegates have identified and outlines strategies for social workforce strengthening based on an HR assessment and gap analysis.

Florence Martin, Director of Better Care Network presented at the National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform in Zambia on the work that BCN does globally, provided a summary of cross country and regional learning on on child care reform, and some of the necessary steps and considerations for care reform. A second presentation follows, highlighting the findings from an analysis of children's care and living arrangements based on data from the Zambia DHS 2013-2014.

The Government of Zambia, along with many other partners including Better Care Network, convened a National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform in Zambia from 4-6 May, 2016. This resource includes the presentations and final Call to Action from the consultation.

The purpose of this assessment was to review service delivery in centres for children with disabilities in Rwanda. This report establishes relevant baseline information on institutional capacity including services offered, staffing levels and other parameters regarding care of children with disabilities.

This brochure outlines adoption policy and procedure in Zambia, including a definition of adoption, how it works, its limitations, requirements for adopting a child, and other conditions.

This brochure contains information about foster care in Zambia, including the definition of foster care, its limitations, its importance, how to become a foster carer and how foster licenses are granted. 

Given the importance of children’s care arrangements for their development, this essay summarizes efforts to measure trends in children’s care arrangements in two regions of the world—Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.