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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Policy and Programing Resource Guide for Child Protection Systems Strengthening in Sub-Saharan Africa
Plan, Save the Children, TRG, UNICEF, World Vision ,

This Resource Guide aims to be a user-friendly and manageable document designed to provide an overview of the current system strengthening approaches, along with a series of resources and tools available to support systems strengthening in child protection.

A Situation Analysis of Ghanaian Children and Women: A Call for Reducing Disparities and Improving Equity
UNICEF and Ministry of Women & Children’s Affairs, Ghana ,

This comprehensive situation analysis provides an overview of issues related to public policy, social budget, and service delivery environment affecting children and women in Ghana.

Bottom-Up Learning About Child Protection Systems: A View of Community-Based Mechanisms From Inter-Agency Research in Sierra Leone
The Columbia Group for Children in Adversity,

This presentation describes research undertaken in Sierra Leone by an inter-agency group to map the child protection system in the country, including the community-based child protection mechanisms (CBCPMs) in place.

Child Protection Systems: Eastern and Southern Africa
Philip Goldman - Maestral International,

This presentation describes the mapping of the child protection system in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Child Protection Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Central and Western Liberia - 2011
Save the Children,

This report provides the initial findings of a Child Protection Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) Study commissioned by Save the Children (SC) as part of the project “Educating and Protecting Vulnerable Children in Family Settings in Liberia” (2010-2014).

An Act to Establish the Children’s Law of Liberia, 2011
Republic of Liberia,

The objective of this Law shall be to facilitate the respect, protection, promotion, and provision of the realization of child rights in order to make maximum contribution to the survival, development, participation, and protection of every child in Liberia.

All Children Count: A Baseline Study of Children in Institutional Care in Malawi
The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Community Development of Malawi; Centre for Social Research (CSR) of the University of Malawi; UNICEF Malawi,

This study commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Community Development and financially and technically supported by UNICEF and the Better Care Network, describes the situation of children in institutional care in Malawi.

Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: risk and protective factors
Ruth V Reed, Dr Mina Fazel, Lynne Jones, Prof Catherine Panter-Brick, and Prof Alan Stein,

This study involved a systematic review of individual, family, community and social risk and protective factors for the mental health of children and adolescents who were forcibly displaced to high-income countries.

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Strengthening Human Resources and Financing for Child Care and Protection Services
Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development - Uganda,

This paper highlights human resource and funding gaps that constrain provision of child care and protection services. It advocates for strengthening of social welfare workforce and funding to improve child care and protection services in Uganda.

National Integrated Child Rights Policy
Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion, Government of Rwanda,

The Integrated Child Rights Policy is conceived with the objectives of strengthening the thinking and analysis around policies related to children and the coordination and implementation of Government activities for realization of children’s rights.