This study explores the association of caregiver and child characteristics with educational outcomes for orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) in India.

The first Global Forum for a World Without Orphans will be held on February 11-14, 2016 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

This blog post by UNICEF describes how the Disability Rights Initiative-Cambodia, a joint Australian Government-United Nations program to improve quality of life for children with disability and their families, is having an impact for one family in Cambodia. 

Australian politician Lunda Reynolds, a Senator for Western Australia, issued a press release warning parents and schools contemplating helping Cambodian orphanages to proceed with caution to ensure they are not unwittingly taking part in “orphanage tourism." The Senator recently visited Cambodia to look at Australian aid projects.

This report provides an evaluation of the Keeping and Finding Families Project, a pilot foster care project in Tajikistan. 

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

This article describes growing skepticism around the value of "voluntourists" for local communities around the work, and many NGOs are questioning the unregulated industry that brings many young, unqualified westerners to developing countries. Often, volunteers are ineffective in providing help to communities, and sometimes can even pose danger to the community members or themselves.

This report is a case study of alternative child care in Indonesia. Research was conducted that found that with an estimate of 8,000 institutional facilities servicing 500,000 children, Indonesia was overly reliant on institutional care.

This short video by GHR presents information on the Children in Familes program with a focus on Cambodia. GHR's grantees are supporting child protection interventions that strengthen families in order to prevention separation of children from their families.

UNICEF has called for the submission of proposals for a Consultancy to Research and Develop Communication and Evidence-Based Effective Messaging to identify a service provider to research compelling, evidence-based messaging and framing to mobilize greater and more sustained commitment from major decision-makers on the value of investing in community-based services in order to accelerate childcare system reforms across Europe and Central Asia.