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This examination of Burundi’s Second Periodic Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child includes a section on Alternative Care and Family Environment that details Burundi’s progress and challenges in areas such as regulation of adoption a
This article reviews the current discourse on what is being called a crisis of care for children, as well as literature on out-of-home/family care and its adverse impacts on child development. The article also describes an emerging “AIDS orphan tourism” and highlights its negative impacts.
Drawing on ethnographic research with five child heads and their siblings in Zimbabwe, this article explores how orphaned children living in ‘child only’ households organise themselves in terms of household domestic and paid work roles, explores the socialisation of children by children and the negotiation of teenage girls' movement.
The Chief of Party is responsible for the overall coordination and management of a large USAID/PEPFAR program serving orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).
This report presents key findings from a small-scale pilot research project that explored the experiences and priorities of young people caring for their siblings in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda.
This is the summary report on the research phase of a project looking at the needs of child-carers in four African countries; Nigeria, Uganda, Angola and Zimbabwe. The research consisted of a literature review and participatory child-led research in one site in each of the four countries.
Cette recherche-action part du constat que la situation de guerre civile dans laquelle le Burundi a été plongé depuis 1993, le SIDA et la paupérisation ont eu des conséquences dramatiques sur la vulnérabilité de la population et plus particulièrement sur les enfants. Ainsi, les conséquences sociales et culturelles de l’état de guerre alimentent des processus de marginalisation au sein de la population des moins de 18 ans, favorisent des comportements délictueux, la perte de repères sociaux et compromettent l’insertion naturelle dans la vie sociale.
Explores the ways that young people express their agency and negotiate complex lifecourse transitions according to gender, age and inter- and intra-generational norms in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in East Africa.
Findings and recommendations of the first national study of its kind in Ethiopia to study child care institutions, institutionalized children, and factors driving institutionalization.
Ethiopian Womens Affairs Ministry and UNICEF hosted a training for all stakeholders on the 1993 Hague Convention. The training focused on facilitating ways for the adoption of the Hague in line with the laws and regulations of Ethiopia.