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 aim of this research was to explore and describe the lived experiences of children living on the streets of Hillbrow, Johannesburg, with a focus on children’s mental health and wellbeing.
Ghana’s Cabinet has recently approved the 1993 Hague Convention on Protection of Children in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption and amendments to the Children's Act in respect of adoptions, says the article.
Hope and Homes for Children announces that the last child has just been moved out of Rwanda’s oldest and largest institution.
This document, developed through a mapping exercise conducted by the National Council for Children’s Services (NCCS) and the Department of Children Services (DCS) of Kenya, provides a comprehensive list of the agencies and programs in Kenya that provide services for children.
In an effort to support practitioners to address some challenges of trying to undertake quality research, a group of child protection networks and organizations - the Community Child Protection Exchange, the CP MERG, the CPC Learning Network, and REPSSI - came together to produce this joint newsletter reflecting upon some groups’ successes and challenges working on child protection research and M&E, including working with a limited budget in low-resource settings.
This article examines an alternative approach to child protection which consists of community-driven, bottom-up work that enables nonformal–formal collaboration and alignment, greater use of formal services, internally driven social change, and high levels of community ownership. The article offers a case example of a community-driven program in Sierra Leone.
This video briefly recaps the Africa-Wide Children without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event hosted by Save the Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 20-23 April 2015.
This video provides instruction on the code of ethics and other standards of care for those who work in the field of Child and Youth Care.
This article from iOL news reports on recent changes to South Africa’s laws regarding foster care grants and child support grants.
This presentation provides an overview of the status of care reform efforts in Africa. It identifies where care reform is underway as well as areas in which reform is still needed. The presentation looks ahead to what is needed to accelerate the momentum on care reform in the region.
