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Behavioral Change Promotion, Cash Transfers and Early Childhood Development : Experimental Evidence from a Government Program in a Low-Income Setting
Patrick Premand & Oumar Barry - The World Bank,

This paper disentangles the effects of behavioral change promotion from cash transfers to poor households through an experiment embedded in a government program in Niger.

Save Our Education in West and Central Africa: Protect Every Child's Right to Learn in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Save the Children West and Central Africa,

This brief from Save the Children describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted children's education in West and Central Africa and outlines recommendations for responding to the growing vulnerabilities of children in the region.

National Standards for Foster Care in Ghana
UNICEF Ghana, Department of Social Welfare of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection,

These Standards for Foster Care are available to all stakeholders engaged in the protection, care and support of children where foster care provision may be required. These Standards are intended to guide social workers and other service providers in monitoring foster care services.

Stop the War on Children 2020 Gender Matters: The West and Central Africa brief
Save the Children,

This brief - a supplement to the Stop the War on Children 2020: Gender matters report - highlights the situation of children in conflict zones in West and Central Africa with a focus on gender.

Care and Support Programmes for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: Achievements and Implications of HIV/AIDS Funded Project in Osun State, Nigeria
Adebola A. Adejimi, et al - World Journal of AIDS,

This paper presents the achievements and implications of HIV Programme Development Project (HPDP) funded by World Bank on care and support services for OVC in Osun State, Nigeria.

Strategic Plan for the Department of Social Welfare
Government of Ghana, UNICEF,

This comprehensive Strategic Plan expounded on the implementation priorities and modalities towards the achievement of the Department of Social Welfare (DSW)’s mandate which leads to the promotion of an operative welfare system in Ghana.

Parent-child contact during parent’s incarceration: A study of children of incarcerated parents in southern Ghana
Afua Amankwaa - Children and Youth Services Review,

Using a qualitative approach, this study explores children’s contact maintenance with their incarcerated parents during parental incarceration.

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The significance of malpractice claims in the management of child adoption demands in Southwest Nigeria
Olayinka Modupe Onayemi1 and Adeyinka Abideen Aderinto - Cogent Social Sciences,

This study investigated the exactitude of claims on the existence of corrupt practices and systemic vulnerabilities within the child adoption domains in Nigeria.

Efforts at meeting the needs of Orphans and Vulnerable children in Vulnerable households in selected communities of Nasarawa Eggon LGA of Nasarawa State (An Assessment of Centre for Women Youth and Community Action (NACWYCA-NGOs)
Stephen S. Ojo and Sofela Afolasade Olayinka - IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science,

The general objective of this study is to assess the response strategies of NGOs in meeting the needs of vulnerable children in vulnerable households in selected communities of Nasarawa Eggon LGA of Nasarawa state, Nigeria.

Perceptions of Neglect and Well-Being among Independent Child Migrants in Ghana
Padmore Adusei Amoah - Child Indicators Research,

This study investigated the experiences and perception of parental neglect among independent child migrants (ICM) in Ghana and the relationship between these experiences and the children’s subjective well-being (happiness).

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