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This publication is a compilation of country briefs that audit and review the level of alignment of national laws with international and regional standards.
The Children Act, Chapter 141 is a Kenyan law that addresses provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children, among others.
The intention of this booklet is to document and share the good practices and results that the Save the Children Norway – Ethiopia (SCN-E) project has achieved at different levels with improved outcomes on the lives of the individual child with disability, families, the community, and institutions.
This report was conducted to provide an extensive assessment designed to map the existing child protection system in Zambia.
A Madagascar, les ménages nucléaires représentent le modèle dominant au détriment des ménages élargis.Néanmoins, les structures familiales et leurs évolutions restent mal connues et, dans un contexte de déstructuration familiale (divorce, décès), la question de la prise en charge des enfants reste majeure.
Using data from a nationally representative household survey conducted in Senegal in 2006-2007, the survey Pauvreté et Structure Familiale, this paper studies the long-term outcomes for adults who have been fostered in their childhood, including children fostered to Koranic schools. It focuses its analysis on education, first employment and current employment as well as on marriage. Findings show that the long-term impacts of fostering are heterogeneous and depend on various reasons including the locations of fostering, host parents, fostering age, and gender.
Documenting the young people‘s own views of what has happened during the time of leaving care and afterwards, this study explores in-depth the experiences of care leavers during the dynamic phase following their separation from an institutional care setting.
Using a nationally representative household survey conducted in 2006-2007 in Senegal, this study sheds light on the common practice of fostering (confiage) by examining the characteristics of households and individuals involved in fostering, the motivation for fostering and its impact on host households, sending households, and the foster child, with a focus on education, employment and marriage outcomes.
Utilizing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children, this paper from Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 76, Issue 4 examines critical components and current characteristics of alternative care for children in low‐resource countries.
