This report describes the outcomes of the joint DCOF/UNICEF visit to Cambodia to assess a three-year, DCOF-funded project on Strengthening Systems to Protect Vulnerable Children and Families in Cambodia.

This research investigates the forms that ‘orphanage tourism’ takes in Cambodia and the impacts of this popular phenomenon on those who are purported to benefit: orphanages and orphans.

This qualitative research study seeks to better understand some of the reasons for residential care expansion in the province of Battambang, Cambodia. The study aims to identify why children are sent to orphanages and understand the attitudes of those stakeholders who are influencing the rise in institutions in the province.

This article describes research conducted in Malaysia on young people’s perceptions of “baby dumping,” or the abandonment of newborns and infants, a phenomenon that has become a “serious issue” in Malaysia. 

This publication proposes a framework of core indicators for measuring and monitoring national child protection systems in the East Asia and Pacific region.

This report summarises findings from a recent online survey conducted with over 300 international travellers to Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. 

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the alternative care situation in Cambodia, including residential and family-based care. 

Study to understand prevailing attitudes towards residential care in Cambodia and to generate evidence for policy development and advocacy

In this episode of “Crossing Continents” from BBC Radio 4, Ed Butler reports on a cycle of abuse in the orphanages of Bali, Indonesia.

This paper looks at how social protection is evolving in developing countries and how it relates to the vulnerabilities of children. It goes on to present the different conceptual models for protection and how they have changed and been influenced by the changing definition of poverty and the growth in transnational knowledge and policymaking.