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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List of Organisations

Government of Liberia, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare ,

Regulations and tools designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions for the safe and appropriate administration of alternative care.

National Council for Children’s Services,

The overall goal of this policy is to realize and safeguard the rights and welfare of the child in Kenya.

National Council for Law Reporting with the Authority of the Attorney General,

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; provision for the administration of children’s insti

Save the Children UK ,

Using lessons learnt in emergencies, from the genocide in Rwanda to the Asian Tsunami and the earthquake in Haiti, our new report, Misguided Kindness, demonstrates what action is needed to keep families together during crises and to bring separated children back into a safe and nurturing family life.

Kathryn Whetten, Jan Ostermann, Lynne C. Messer, Rachel A. Whetten, Brian W. Pence, Karen O’Donnell, Nathan M. Thielman, The Positive Outcomes for Orphans (POFO) Research Team,

Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children (OAC) be moved as quickly as possible to a residential family setting and that institutional care be used as a last resort.

Gillian Morantz & Jody Heymann,

As a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, there are now more than 12 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of these children have been absorbed into their extended families.

Hye-Young Lim - University of Pretoria,

This doctoral thesis by Hye-Young Lim examines the laws around the recognition of child-headed households in South Africa, particularly in the context of HIV/AIDS.

Lisanne Brown, Tonya R. Thurman, Janet Rice, Neil W. Boris, Joseph Ntaganira, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Jean De Dieu & Leslie Snider ,

This quasi-experimental study tested a model of adult mentorship and support to improve psychosocial outcomes among youth-headed households in a rural area of Rwanda.

UNICEF Lesotho,

The alternative care assessment examines the current social welfare systems and processes rather than on the specific quality of care in the various children’s homes as standards have already been developed.

USAID, UNICEF Malawi,

Despite its importance to the poorest in society, the social welfare sector in Malawi has not been performing well. Recognising this, the Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development (MoGCCD) requested support from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), who have taken a new approach: supporting the Government of Malawi (GoM) to build a better social welfare system starting at the top, within the Ministry.