The purpose of this review document is to inform the development of an African Partnership for quality in the care of orphans and vulnerable children. By reviewing experiences to date in similar efforts, this review identifies best practices and challenges that may inform the development of a regional partnership focusing on quality.

A qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of northwestern Tanzania

Examines the challenges posed in monitoring and ensuring child protection in informal and formal fostering in post-conflict areas.

Examines the institutional challenges in implementing national social protection programmes

These standards were drafted as part of a reform initiative programme in Ghana to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort

This report, prepared for UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) assesses capacity of Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia to manage alternative care systems for children. 

Using household survey data from 21 countries in Africa, this study examines trends in orphanhood and living arrangements, and the links between the two.

This page from the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism website offers documentation of and background about serious irregularities in international adoption in Liberia. 

This publication explains the impacts of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children in the family and community-based care, households and communities; needs of orphans and vulnerable children and responses in the educational system; psychosocial impact on children and youth; human rights of children affected by HIV/AIDS; and religion and responses to orphans and vulnerable children.

Ce rapport est de faire du droit une réalité dans le Grand lac de la région de l'Afrique de l'enfant.