This page contains documents and other resources related to children's care in Africa. Browse resources by region, country, or category. Resources related particularly to North Africa can also be found on the Middle East and North Africa page.
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The 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, issued by the U.S. State Department to grade countries on their anti-slavery efforts, has identified the forced begging of children by their teachers as Senegal’s primary trafficking problem, according to the article.
Ghana is working toward reforming and strengthening the foster care and adoption procedures and, to that end, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) convened a group of stakeholders at a meeting in Accra to gather their input.
The Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening project (ASPIRES) is a USAID- and PEPFAR-funded cooperative agreement implemented by FHI 360 that supports evidence-based, gender-sensitive programming to
Uganda’s President Museveni has assented to the Children's (Amendment) Bill 2015, a bill that “seeks to strengthen the protection of children's rights and restrict legal guardianship of children to Ugandan citizens,” according to this article from All Africa.
This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. In this post, the author explains that, around the world, many orphanages are being run, not by government, but by church groups and individuals who start as volunteers. “The institutions are poorly regulated and they’re doing a job that could be done by the children’s families, with the right support,” says Smith.
This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. In this post, the author describes his experiences with international volunteers in the orphanage where he lived and the larger problem of orphanage volunteering.
Gerald Campbell, a man from the state of Texas in the US who managed an orphanage in Malawi, has just pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the children in his care at the institution.
The purpose of this consultancy shall be to conduct an assessment of the design of ECD integrated model and the extent to which the project achieved its intended outcomes.
Save the Children is recruiting a Senior Technical Advisor in Alternative Care (STA) to provide oversight of and ensure implementation of the Alternative Care Component of the Zambia Rising project.
Family for Every Child is looking for a short term consultant to produce a desk based research report on the context for children in Liberia and recommend CSOs working in this area.
