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This technical assessment report uses a transformative social protection framework adapted for studying the provisions and practice in alternative care and adoption in Kenya.
Ce document décrit les principes, les objectifs, et les stratégies d’une politique nationale pour la protection des OEV au Burundi.
These standards were drafted as part of a reform initiative programme in Ghana to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort
Discusses the bi-directional relationship between HIV/AIDS and agriculture, food security, and rural livelihoods, including the relationship between HIV/AIDS and children’s property and inheritance rights
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.
The Child Rights Act of 2007 provides for the promotion of the rights of the child compatible with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20th November, 1989, and its Optional Protocol of 8th September, 2000, and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, and for other related matters.
This report presents the findings of an assessment conducted between 8 July and 22 August 2006 that gathered and analyzed information on inter-country adoption to support strengthening Liberia’s adoption laws and develop operating guidelines for adoption agencies.
This study commissioned by UNICEF, Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI), and World Conference on Religions and Peace (WCRP) maps and defines roles and responsibilities for Civil Society in the expanded national HIV/AIDS responses. The report pays particular attention to the protection, care and support of orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa.
A poster depicting the National Quality Standards for the Protection, Care and Support of Orphans and OVC in Uganda.
This briefing paper emerges from a review of 14 national plans of action (NPA), or in the absence of a NPA, outputs from the rapid assessment analysis and action planning (RAAAP) work for orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. The purpose is to analyse the way that issues of social protection are incorporated into these plans and to highlight areas within the plans where social protection activity may be needed to achieve stated outcomes. Annex 3 summarises, country by country, the social protection content of each NPA.
