UNICEF  is  hiring  a  national  technical expert  to  support the  Government of  Lesotho  (GoL) commitment to fulfil its periodic reporting obligations  as a signatory to  the UNCRC and in the realization of children rights and ensuring full protection of children and their rights.

This paper examines all policy and laws related to families in the South, West, East and Central regions of sub-Saharan Africa.

The special issue of Emerging Adulthood titled “Care-Leaving in Africa” is the first collection of essays on care-leaving by African scholars. This article, coauthored by scholars from North and South, argues in favor of North–South dialogue but highlights several challenges inherent in this, including the indigenizing and thus marginalizing of African experience and scholarship and divergent constructions of key social concepts.

The Lesotho VACS Fact Sheet provides country-specific data on sexual and physical violence against children in Lesotho.

This paper focuses on the role of ‘soft conditionality’ implemented through both ‘labelling’ and ‘messaging’ in evaluating the impact of the Child Grants Program in Lesotho, an unconditional cash transfer programme targeting poor households with orphans and vulnerable children.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

The purpose of this Scope of Work is to assess and document Quality Improvement (QI) implementation process in relation to Catholic Relief Services (CRS) OVC Project. 

This country brief is part of a series that aims to provide an analysis of children’s living and care arrangements according to the latest available data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS) at the time of publication.

A PSA produced by Hillside Digital Trust about Kick4Life's work in supporting vulnerable children in Lesotho

This book published jointly by FAO, UNICEF, and Oxford University Press presents the findings from evaluations of the Transfer Project, a cash transfer project undertaken in the following sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.  It concludes that cash transfers are becoming a key means for social protection in developing countries.