Children's rights, domestic alternative care frameworks and judicial responses to restrictions on inter-country adoption: A case study of Malawi and Uganda

Danwood Chirwa - African Human Rights Law Journal

Through a study of the legal frameworks and court decisions of Malawi and Uganda, this article demonstrates that some of the most common restrictions on inter-country adoption do not serve the best interests and rights of the child.

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Community-based initiatives in response to the OVC crisis in North Central Uganda

Titeca, Kristof & Omwa, Samuel Samson - Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy (IOB)

This paper shows how OVC community responses in Northern Uganda are under severe pressure from a range of factors; but how these community initiatives are not collapsing – as the ‘social rupture’ thesis predicts.

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They are not always a burden: Older people and child fostering in Uganda during the HIV epidemic

Susan Kasedde, Aoife M. Doyle, Janet A. Seeley, David A. Ross - Social Science & Medicine

This qualitative study examines the role of older people (60 years and above) in fostering decisions for orphans and non-orphans within extended families in a rural Ugandan community heavily affected by HIV.

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Family Economic Strengthening and Parenting Stress Among Caregivers of AIDS-Orphaned Children: Results from a Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial in Uganda

Proscovia Nabunya, Fred M. Ssewamala, Vilma Ilic - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examines the impact of a family economic strengthening intervention on parenting stress among caregivers of AIDS-orphaned children in Uganda.

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The National Integrated Early Childhood Development Policy Action Plan (2016-2021) of Uganda

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development

The National Integrated Early Childhood Development (NIECD) policy of Uganda seeks to address multi-dimensional needs of young children through building more effective and coherent efforts among sectors to achieve positive early childhood development out comes for all children.

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