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 country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the combined second to fourth periodic report of the Congo under Convention on the Rights of the Child at its sixty-fifth Session (13 Jan 2014 - 31 Jan 2014).
This article reports on a mushrooming of children's institutions in Uganda and the poor standards of care and abuse met by children in those institutions.
This report presents the findings of an audit of the cash transfer programs for the Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), Persons with Severe Disability (PWSD), and the Elderly in 21 sub-counties of Kenya, to provide the national and county governments with a snap shot account of the implementation of the cash transfer program and the level of participation of the vulnerable populations in programs designed for them.
This book explores the legal and human rights dimensions of kinship care, the preferred alternative to parental care in the African context.
This book focuses on, and reviews, a selection of laws related to the rights of children in South Africa.
This report from SOS Children’s Villages examines the range of services available to families in Malawi to prevent family separation as well as the administrative measures and national policy frameworks governing these services.
This report from SOS Children’s Villages presents a critical analysis of the Zimbabwe’s compliance with the UN Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children which found “yawning gaps” between the laws and policies in place and the actual experiences of children on the ground.
This report describes the Social Connectedness Programme and the three strands of research that inform it. The report defines social connectedness and social isolation and explains the benefits of social connectedness.
The purpose of the ‘Imbeleko and social connectedness’ project was to conduct a cross-sectional study in order to explore and describe indigenous ways of care and support to inform policy and intervention.
This study was undertaken to build knowledge on alternative care practices, especially informal kinship care, prevalent in the West and Central Africa.
