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Grandmothers and Children’s Schooling in 33 Sub-Saharan African Countries
Sandor Schrijner and Jeroen Smits ,

This study examines the effect of the presence of a grandmother in the household on the child in 33 Sub-Saharan African countries. The study focuses on the effect the grandmother’s presence has on the child’s educational participation, considering a range of circumstances.

Digitally Enhanced Child Protection: How New Technology Can Prevent Violence Against Children in the Global South
Helen Moestue and Robert Muggah - Igarapé Institute ,

This Strategic Paper, from the Igarapé Institute, reviews emerging capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to prevent violence against children in the Global South.

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda
Kate Doyle, Jane Kato-Wallace, Shamsi Kazimbaya & Gary Barker - Gender and Development,

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

 

Connecting the Dots: A Child Protection Model from Malawi
Catholic Relief Services ,

This video documents how a child protection model from Malawi works as part of the Integrated (HIV Effect) Mitigation and Positive Action for Community Transformation (IMPACT) program.

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Sixth International Policy Conference on the African Child - Social Protection in Africa: Making it Work
International Policy Conference on the African Child ,

27-28 October 2014 at the UN Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

UNICEF Rwanda is recruiting an international Child Protection Monitoring and Evaluation Consultant at P-3 level and for a period of 11 months
UNICEF Rwanda,

The key objective of this consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Rwanda and its partners in theTubarerere Mu Muruyango Programme (TMM, ‘Let us raise children in families’), to plan for the next ‘phase’ of the national Care Reform programme, based on reliable evidence and analysis of the current programme experience.

APC RFP - Performance Evaluation of Child Care Reform Project in Uganda
Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) project,

The Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) project invites qualified organizations to submit proposals for an independent performance evaluation of a child care reform project that will be implemented in Uganda by a consortium of non-governmental organizations led by ChildFund International. One Fixed Price Contract is anticipated to be awarded under this Request for Proposals (RFP).

Lessons from introducing a livelihood project for unaccompanied children into an existing child protection programme in the Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya
Camilla Jones, Trish Hiddleston, and Christine McCormick,

This article details the introduction of a livelihood project for unaccompanied children in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, which aimed at strengthening the household economy of foster families and improving the care of fostered children. 

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Uganda’s child adoption ‘market’ brings misery and confusion
Amy Fallon, The Guardian,

Family distraught at losing contact with son, now living 8,000 miles away in US after adopters told he was abandoned

Enumerating Street Children
David Whitford and Joanna Wakia - Retrak ,

This report from Retrak provides information on how to best count and develop estimates of the number of street-connected children in a particular area.