This study explores the effect of COVID-19 on a small number of privately run and funded residential care institutions by conducting a qualitative research study comprising 21 semi-structured interviews across seven focus countries.

This article compares the reception and integration of unaccompanied minors (UM) in the two countries with a particular focus on their access to education and employment.

This article from the Associated Press describes efforts in Egypt to promote the practice of Kafala, "an alternative care system under which adults can become guardians of orphaned children."

This study examined the self-reports of youth in Israeli residential care settings designed for youth from underprivileged backgrounds on the extent of perceived availability of support from their siblings among other sources of support, and the contribution of sibling support to various positive and negative measures of well-being and functioning.

This brochure from UNICEF provides an overview of child marriage in the Sahel, a region spanning the northern portion of sub-Saharan Africa.

These Practitioner Guidance Papers share the approaches of five Family for Every Child members in adapting existing helplines or setting up new ones during the COVID-19 pandemic

The main objective of this consultancy is to provide technical guidance to the design, implementation, and analysis of the national study on violence against children that  aims at assessing the magnitude, incidence, causes and consequences of various types of violence against children (qualitative and quantitative).

"A BBC News Arabic investigation has uncovered systemic child abuse and evidence of sexual abuse inside Islamic schools in Sudan," says the description of this video from BBC News.

This research explores the stress children in World Vision programmes in the Middle East and Eastern Europe region are under due to COVID-19.

UNICEF is seeking a consultant to coordinate and lead regional data initiatives to shape the narrative in advocacy and programming for children on the move in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.