Country Care Review: Niger

Better Care Network

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of Niger's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review. 

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Country Care Review: Mauritania

Better Care Network

This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of Mauritania's initial reports, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review. 

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Early Means Early: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert, Stakeholder, and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in South Africa

FrameWorks Institute, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development, Stellenbosch University, UNICEF, and the MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit

This report identifies key communications challenges faced by experts and advocates as they seek to elevate support for public policies that will best serve the developmental needs of all children in South Africa.

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Situación de Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes sin cuidados parentales en la República Argentina. Relevamiento nacional - actualización 2014

UNICEF y Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de la Nación

Este nuevo relevamiento muestra y analiza datos actualizados relativos a la cantidad de niñas, niños y adolescentes (NNyA) sin cuidados parentales en la República Argentina, los lugares de cuidado donde están alojados, las condiciones en las que viven, el organismo que decidió que fueran separados o separadas de su mamá, papá o familia ampliada, los motivos de esta separación, los tiempos de permanencia en las instituciones, los motivos de ingreso y egreso.

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Washington’s Out-of-State Youth Plead: Let Us Come Home; Report and Recommendations

Disability Rights Washington

The US state of Washington’s foster care system has been sending many young people in need of residential care and treatment to the Clarinda Academy, an institution in Iowa. This is a report by Disability Rights Washington (DRW) to expose the conditions and treatment experienced by Washington foster youth at this institution.

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Effectiveness of life skills education and psychoeducation on emotional and behavioral problems among adolescents in institutional care in Kenya: a longitudinal study

Victoria Mutiso, Albert Tele, Christine Musyimi, Isaiah Gitonga, Abednego Musau, David Ndetei - Child and Adolescent Mental Health

This study aimed to test the effectiveness of life skills education (LSE) and psychoeducation in the reduction of Youth Self Report (YSR) scores on institutionalized children in Kenya, using structured activities supported by trained facilitators.

Professional self-efficacy for responding to child abuse presentations

Jennifer Anne Fraser, Tara Flemington, Diep Thi Ngoc Doan, Van Minh Tu Hoang, Binh Thi Le Doan, Tuan Manh Ha - Journal of Children's Services

The purpose of this paper is to validate measures of professional self-efficacy for detecting and responding to child abuse and neglect presentations, and then evaluate a clinical training programme for health professionals in a tertiary-level hospital in Vietnam.

Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and work engagement in residential child care

Dr Kerry Audin, Dr Jolanta Burke, Dr Itai Ivtzan - Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care

This quantitative study investigated the relationship between compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction and work engagement in staff working in independent residential childcare organisations in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Street children, integrated education and violence in northern Nigeria

Chidi Ezegwu, Adewole O. Adedokun, Chioma Ezegwu - Education and Extremisms: Rethinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World

This chapter explores how the failing system of traditional almajiri education, challenges associated with government efforts to integrate almajiri education into the formal school system, social exclusion and hostility contribute to increase the boys’ vulnerability to radicalisation and recruitment by Boko Haram.

Early Caregiver-Child Interaction and Children's Development: Lessons from the St. Petersburg-USA Orphanage Intervention Research Project

McCall RB, Groark CJ, Hawk BN, Julian MM, Merz EC, Rosas JM, Muhamedrahimov RJ, Palmov OI, Nikiforova NV - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review

This study reviews a series of interrelated studies on the development of children residing in institutions (i.e., orphanages) in the Russian Federation or placed with families in the USA and the Russian Federation.

Myth-Busting? Confronting Six Common Perceptions about Unconditional Cash Transfers as a Poverty Reduction Strategy in Africa

Sudhanshu Handa, Silvio Daidone, Amber Peterman, Benjamin Davis, Audrey Pereira, Tia Palermo, and Jennifer Yablonski - The World Bank Research Observer

This paper summarizes evidence on six perceptions associated with cash transfer programming, using eight rigorous evaluations conducted on large-scale government unconditional cash transfers in sub-Saharan Africa under the Transfer Project.

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Discrimination and Ethnic‐Racial Socialization Among Youth Adopted From South Korea Into White American Families

Samantha M. Schires, NiCole T. Buchanan, Richard M. Lee, Matt McGue, William G. Iacono, S. Alexandra Burt - Child Development

The current study examined how discrimination relates to adjustment outcomes in a sample of internationally, transracially adopted Korean Americans from the Minnesota Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study.

Community contextual effects on at‐risk mothers' engagement in Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme

Junhan Cho, Dayoung Bae, Darcey D. Terris, Rachael E. Glisson, Anita Brown - Child & Family Social Work

The current study examined family and community factors related to home visiting programme engagement in a sample of 1,024 mothers (primary caregivers, mean age 22.89 years) who participated in family support programmes funded through the US state of Georgia's Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting programme.

Establishing the international prevalence of self-reported child maltreatment: a systematic review by maltreatment type and gender

Gwenllian Moody, Rebecca Cannings-John, Kerenza Hood, Alison Kemp and Michael Robling - BMC Public Health

This systematic review aims to review studies using self-report maltreatment to capture child maltreatment prevalence rates worldwide.

Multiple Factors Associated With Child Abuse Perpetration: A Nationwide Population-Based Retrospective Study

Cheng-Chen Chang, Ming-Hong Hsieh, Jeng-Yuan Chiou, Hsiang-Hsiung Huang, Po-Chung Ju, Jong-Yi Wang - Journal of Interpersonal Violence

This study compared the risk difference and further investigated the association between the category of mental disorders and child abuse perpetration in Taiwan.

Expanding the Basics: Mapping the Gaps between Expert, Decision-Maker and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in Kenya

Eric Lindland, Teresa Mwoma, George Evans Owino, Mariah Ngutu, Lynette Okeng’o, Damaris Nelima - FrameWorks Institute

This report considers a set of key overlaps and gaps in understanding of children’s early development and perception among experts, the Kenyan public, and people who work and make decisions in the early childhood development (ECD) sector in Kenya.

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