This study explores how kinship lineage and inheritance norms in Ghana influence decisions about placing children in the care of maternal or paternal grandmothers. While traditionally significant, findings suggest these norms are weakening due to legal reforms, social change, and interethnic marriages, with limited influence on most contemporary kinship care arrangements.

This qualitative study explores the experiences of street children in Benin City, Nigeria, finding that family breakdown, poverty, abuse, and lack of parental care are key drivers of children leaving home. It shows that once on the streets, children adopt various survival strategies, including informal labor, begging, crime, and substance use, and calls for coordinated government and community action to strengthen families and support reintegration.

At a time when the Global Charter on Children’s Care Reform is calling for stronger commitment and action to ensure children grow up in safe and loving families, FAFICA collaborated with the Global Campaign on Children’s Care Reform Working Group to convene the webinar “Over 30 Million Reasons to Act: Advancing Family Care for Children in Africa.”

At a time when the Global Charter on Children’s Care Reform is calling for stronger commitment and action to ensure children grow up in safe and loving family, FAFICA is pleased to be collaborating with the Global Campaign on Children's Care Reform Working Group and would like to invite you to their upcoming webinar: Over 30 Million Reasons to Act: Advancing Family Care for Children in Africa.

This UNICEF article describes how partners in Mozambique are working together to strengthen child protection systems through coordinated national efforts, highlighting progress such as improved case management, expanded social services, and strong

This webinar, co-hosted by the Transforming Children's Care collaborative and Hope and Homes for Children, dove into the ground-level realities of system strengthening across three diverse national contexts: South Africa, Rwanda, and Bulgaria. Country experts shared the critical bottlenecks they encountered, the strategies that worked, the course corrections required, and the evidence of impact for children and families.

This study examines the challenges of deinstitutionalization (DI) in Ghana, particularly for child trafficking survivors, highlighting how structural, socio-cultural, and economic factors hinder safe reintegration into family-based care. It finds that while policies promote alternatives to institutional care, effective DI requires sustained investment in community services, poverty reduction, and trauma-informed support to prevent re-trafficking and ensure long-term child well-being.

This Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights article warns that escalating violence in South Sudan is driving a severe and growing child trafficking crisis. It explains that ongoing conflict, widespread attacks on civilians, and massive displacement—both internally and from neighboring Sudan—are creating conditions in which children are highly vulnerable to exploitation.

This article explores how social welfare officers in Tanzania experience and manage the reintegration of institutionalised orphans back into family care. It examines the strategies they use, the challenges they face, and the broader systems needed to support sustainable, child-centered reintegration.

This article describes lives of street children in Kinshasa, where thousands of children survive in extreme poverty and face daily violence, exploitation, and neglect. It highlights how many are driven onto the streets due to family poverty or accusations of witchcraft, exposing them to abuse, drug use, and sexual violence.