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Dr. Helen Epstein and Adam Collins,

Study tracing impact of FXB International's community-driven “FXB-Village” model on graduates of the program. The models is a structured program of household support and economic strengthening designed to empower particularly vulnerable families to escape extreme poverty and ensure the enduring wellbeing of the children in their care.

Mia Dambach, Service Social International,

Ceci est une présentation à la Conférence sur le Renforcement de la Famille et la Prise en Charge Alternative en Afrique subsaharienne francophone en Mai 2012 en Dakar, Sénégal.

 

UNICEF Malawi ,

The paper argues that investing in Malawi’s emerging national child protection system will support national social protection goals. The Government is bringing together its various responses to child protection and orphans and vulnerable children as the foundation on which to build the national child protection system, with the intention of delivering a coordinated, harmonised and systematic approach to protecting children from violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect.

Save the Children,

This ‘Top Ten Resources’ document lists the currently most relevant materials on Child Protection, as identified by Save the Children’s Child Protection Initiative (CPI).

Timothy P. Williams, Agnes Binagwaho, Theresa S. Betancourt - Child Abuse & Neglect Volume 36, Issue 4 ,

This study was designed to illuminate the different manifestations of transactional sexual exploitation and abuse among Rwanda's children in order to inform effective responses by policies, programs, and communities.

Republic of Zambia - Ministry of Health,

The national Adolescent Health Strategic Plan 2011 to 2015 (ADH-SP 2011- 2015) for Zambia, seeks to outline the strategic framework for promoting the planning, organization and delivery of appropriate, accessible, efficient and effective Adolescent Friendly Health Services (ADFHS) throughout the country.

Over the past two decades of humanitarian work in northern Uganda, national and international child-focused organisations as well as government departments responsible for children have built a rich body of knowledge that has informed child protection work throughout the country. The development of this Child Protection Curriculum and related training materials is therefore a first step by the Ministry of Gender, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Child Protection Working Group in Uganda, and selected academic institutions to professionalise the child protection sector within the broader realm of social work in Uganda.

Zahara Legesse Kauffman & Kelley McCreery Bunkers,

The study was carried out in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The purpose of this research is to utilise information collated from literature review as well as informant interviews and focus group discussions to identify good practices or help inform the development of such practices aimed at assisting street children currently residing in institutional care to return to a family-based environment. 

VOA News,

In the next few years, the Rwandan government hopes to close the majority of the country’s children’s homes. Rwanda’s so-called "child deinstitutionalization" (DI) policy, which, despite initial concerns, is attracting global support.

Christopher Oleke, Astrid Blystad, Ole Bjørn Rekdal & Karen Marie Moland - Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS,

This paper presents findings from a study on the experiences of orphan care among Langi people of Amach sub-county in Lira District, northern Uganda, and discusses their policy implications.