Guidelines developed to assure and improve the quality of services for the well being, protection and development of orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria

Cette cartographie et analyse du système de protection de l’enfance au Sénégal fait partie d’une initiative régionale de l’Afrique de l’Ouest et centrale soutenue de manière technique et matérielle par un groupe régional de référence composé de Plan International, Save the Children Suède, Save the Children Finlande et l’UNICEF. 

The development of Ghana’s three year National Plan of Action for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) is to complement and reinforce existing legislature and other social policies for vulnerable groups. The OVC NPA framework sets out time bound goals and objectives and serves as a framework for providing care and support to vulnerable children in care institutions.

Regulations and tools designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions for the safe and appropriate administration of alternative care.

This Social Welfare Policy is intended to provide direction for reforming the social welfare sector in Liberia.

The objective of this report is to review the initiatives carried out in the last four years in West and Central African countries with regard to child protection information and monitoring systems. 

Experts gathered in Carmona Spain to examine the results of policy relevant systemic reviews on social welfare and cash transfers. Meeting delegates explored the findings of reviews on integration of social welfare services and cash transfers in Ghana, Chile, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya.

This study examined the implementation of Ghana’s child rights legislation (Children’s Act 560) in four districts in respect of the establishment of prescribed administrative and institutional structures, the service delivery procedures, and challenges.

These standards were drafted as part of a reform initiative programme in Ghana to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort

The aim of this report is to review international human rights norms as well as Liberian legislation, and to assess the compliance of orphanages with those standards.