This study explored the experiences of orphaned children who specifically take on the role of being both mother and father to their siblings.

This Social Welfare Policy is intended to provide direction for reforming the social welfare sector in Liberia.

The objective of this report is to review the initiatives carried out in the last four years in West and Central African countries with regard to child protection information and monitoring systems. 

Summary information on recently published book on community strengthening in response to children needs in context of poverty and AIDS.

This Minimum Standards for Residential Child Care Facilities in Namibia is designed to assist child care service providers, ministerial staff, social welfare partners, and other stakeholders concerned with the quality of child care, to establish, maintain and manage high quality care services for children in Namibia

Study investigating the psychosocial impact of different high risk situations in West and Central Africa such as trafficking, ethnic cleansing, armed conflict or parental loss.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child.

This research project aimed to contribute to knowledge development in understanding how the social development approach is actually being used by individual schools of social work in Southern and East Africa, and how this approach is impacting social work training, through primary empirical research.

Focuses on children’s vulnerabilities and risks related to an absence of protection from violence, abuse and neglect, and the ways in which measures to address such vulnerabilities and risks can be more effectively integrated into social protection policy frameworks in the West and Central Africa region.

This paper shares the philosophy and key components of the African development initiative Giving Hope that works with youth caregivers through an asset-based empowerment methodology. The approach facilitates the restoration of youth caregivers’ sense of self, belonging, power, and collective responsibility.