Various stakeholders, including Better Care Network, met at an Africa wide Program Learning Event on 20-23 April 2015, organized by Save the Children, under the theme “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” which brought together country, regional and global experts. This document includes the agenda for the 3-day event.

This qualitative research explored perceptions, beliefs, and experiences of adoption and fostering among a national sample of childless adults, biological parents, kin and non-kin fostering parents and prospective and successful adopters.

Save the Children extended Kinship Care research begun in West Central Africa in 2012 across East Africa in 2014, and this paper presents the findings for Zanzibar. 

This album is a compilation of information collected from children and young people during the Kinship Care research in Zanzibar by Save the Children.

In this article, Anas Aremeyaw Anas continues his work of exposing abuses at the Bawjiase Countryside Orphanage in Ghana.

This paper examines alternative care in Kenya. The focus will be on the genesis of alternative care; the non- prosaic multiple factors contributing to the situation, situational analysis on data, and child protection frameworks.

This portfolio review of OVC programming in Uganda focuses on several priority issues, including: (1) targeting case management and referral mechanisms; (2) graduation; (3) links with HIV/AIDS care and treatment partners; and (4) overall coordination amongst implementing partners.

This small research project was conceived to investigate the issues surrounding economic strengthening with Retrak Ethiopia’s reintegration programmes with the aim of seeking new ways to address the challenges.

The organizations profiled in these case studies have pioneered effective transitions from residential to family-based care. 

This poster provides a brief overview of research conducted in Ghana to examine how institutionalized children’s hope for the future may be impacted by perceived social attachments.