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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This article highlights the devastating impact of the ongoing Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, including the deaths of children living in orphanages and other vulnerable settings.
This article examines the impact of the 2025 U.S. foreign aid freeze on Nigeria’s HIV response, with a focus on programs supporting orphans and vulnerable children, adolescents, and family-based prevention. It highlights how disruptions to psychosocial support and community interventions may affect HIV prevention efforts and underscores the need for sustainable, locally led systems.
This article examines the growing concerns around child-headed households in Zambia as disruptions to HIV treatment access leave some parents unable to continue receiving life-saving medication.
This qualitative study examines the perspectives of community duty bearers on protecting orphans and vulnerable children from sexual abuse in Bikita District, Zimbabwe. It explores perceived drivers of abuse, existing protection strategies, and the role of collective community responsibility in safeguarding children.
This New York Times video documents how an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has affected a vulnerable group of children living in an orphanage, showing how the arrival of an infected newborn triggered a rapid health crisis.
This webinar—hosted by the Transitioning Residential Care Working Group under the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative—brought together practitioners from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern and Southern Africa to explore how social norms shape efforts to transition away from residential care and how they can be effectively addressed.
This article reports findings from Malawi’s Ministry of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare showing that 88% of children living on the streets have at least one living parent, challenging the common assumption that street-connected children are primarily orphans.
This article explores the lived experiences of street-connected youth in African cities, highlighting the multiple socio-economic challenges they face alongside their resilience in navigating daily survival. Drawing on focus groups across three cities, it reconceptualizes resilience as a dynamic, context-driven process shaped by social, institutional, and environmental factors, with implications for policy and practice.
This study explores the large-scale implementation of the Parenting for Lifelong Health for Teens (PLH-Teens) program in Tanzania, examining implementers’ experiences in delivering a parenting intervention to over 75,000 beneficiaries in a low-resource setting. It finds that while scaling evidence-based programs to reduce violence against children is feasible, long-term success depends on government support, strong local engagement, and addressing practical challenges to sustain implementation at scale.
