Africa

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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Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR,

This reportive piece from NPR covers the reunification of 18 children with their families in Liberia after being quarantined at an Ebola care center, or “shelter” in Monrovia.

Muliro Telewa - BBC News,

This BBC article highlights the situation of children born if incest in Kenya.

E.J. Graff, Pacific Standard ,

In this article, journalist E.J. Graff, uncovers some of the corruption, fraud, and deception common within the “mini-industry” of U.S. adoptions from Ethiopia, and how that “industry” has come to see better regulation through diplomacy and a new federal law.

Norimitsu Onishi - New York Times,

A reporter from the New York Times traveled to Liberia to collect the stories of Liberians affected by Ebola.

Faith to Action Initiative,

In light of the world’s largest Ebola epidemic, the Faith to Action Initiative has released an article on its website advising its partners on how to respond to this epidemic and its effects on children’s care.

Michel Nkurunziza - All Africa,

This article highlights the situation that The National Commission for Children (NCC), in Rwanda, is facing as it looks for new ways to address the challenge of integrating orphans who have reached adulthood into foster families. The law does not allow orphans aged 18 and above to stay in orphanages, which government has been phasing out in the last two years.

UNICEF Ghana,

The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support and capacity building in support of operationalizing the (soon to be established) Central Authority for Adoptions in Ghana. 

Robyn Dixon - Los Angeles Times,

This article describes the challenges Ebola suriviers face upon returning to their communites.

International Policy Conference on the African Child ,

27-28 October 2014 at the UN Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

UNICEF Rwanda,

The key objective of this consultancy is to strengthen the capacity of the Government of Rwanda and its partners in theTubarerere Mu Muruyango Programme (TMM, ‘Let us raise children in families’), to plan for the next ‘phase’ of the national Care Reform programme, based on reliable evidence and analysis of the current programme experience.