“They Destroyed What Was Inside Us”: Children with Disabilities Amid Israel’s Attacks on Gaza
This Human Rights Watch report documents how children with disabilities in Gaza face dangerous situations and additional difficulties as they struggle to comply with frequent evacuation orders and a lack of effective advance warning of attacks.
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World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition [Executive Summary]
This is the Executive Summary of the World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition which provides a global overview of progress made around the world since 2015 in extending social protection and building rights-based social protection systems. It calls on policymakers, social partners and other stakeholders to accelerate their efforts to simultaneously close protection gaps and realize climate ambitions.
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World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition
With a sharp focus on the climate crisis, this report provides a global overview of progress made around the world since 2015 in extending social protection and building rights-based social protection systems. In doing so, it makes an essential contribution to the monitoring framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. And it calls on policymakers, social partners and other stakeholders to accelerate their efforts to simultaneously close protection gaps and realize climate ambitions.
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Webinar #19: Divestment Guidelines and Transition Monitoring Tool Launch
The Transitioning Residential Care Working Group, part of the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative, launched the Divesting of Residential Care Guidelines and the Transition Monitoring Tool for practitioners, advocates, organizations, and donors supporting and promoting residential
Kenya Learning Brief: Reflections on Effective Delivery of Family Strengthening Interventions in Kenya
This learning brief documents the process of care reform policy development and financing improvements in Nyamira County, Kenya, following the enactment of the Child Policy and the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2023.
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Kenya Learning Brief: Approaches for Replication of Kafaalah as an Alternative Family-Based Care Option in Kenya
This learning brief explores the formalization and replication of Kafaalah, an Islamic practice of caring for orphans and vulnerable children, as an alternative family-based care option in Kenya.
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Household Survey Summary - Guatemala: Understanding Caregiver Protective Factors and Child Well-Being Amongst Families with Experience of Alternative Care
In Guatemala, the survey in 2023 targeted all families who had participated in a case management process with CTWWC due to a reintegrating child or a child identified as at risk of separation, as well as a sample of households where the caregiver had attended a parenting school.
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Household Survey Summary - Moldova: Understanding Caregiver Protective Factors and Child Well-Being Amongst Families with Experience of Alternative Care
This is a summary of a household survey conducted in Moldova by CTWWC to provide insights for policymakers and practitioners on the impacts of interventions to support reintegrating families and those at risk of separation. For Moldova, CTWWC adapted its survey tool to fit the local context by adjusting terminology and phrasing of some questions and responses, and removing questions that were not relevant.
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How Does Income Support Help Prevent Violence Against Children?
Case studies from Peru, Cambodia and DRC provide lessons on how income support can contribute to keeping children safe.
Shifting Norms and Values to Prevent Violence Against Children
This webinar showcased global approaches to strengthening norms and values that support positive, gender-equitable relationships and non-violent problem solving as one of the strategies to prevent violence against children as outlined in INPIRE. It focused on the lessons learned, challenges, adaptations and key ingredients of successful interventions.
How do Parenting Programmes Help Keep Children Safe?
This webinar unpacks lessons learnt from successful parenting and caregiver interventions in lower-middle-income countries.
Household Survey Summary - Kenya: Understanding Caregiver Protective Factors and Child Well-Being Amongst Families with Experience of Alternative Care
A key feature of CTWWC’s theory of change is building evidence on children's care and reform, particularly regarding reintegration from residential care, transitions to family-based care, and preventing separation.
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How Creating Safe Environments Prevents Violence Against Children
This webinar showcases global approaches to creating safe environments and communities. Speakers focused on the lessons learned, challenges, adaptations and key ingredients of successful interventions.
Desinversión de servicios de cuidado residencial para los niños, niñas y adolescentes que viven en las instituciones de cuidado, de protección o de acogida (Explanatory Note)
Hace aproximadamente dos décadas, el mundo empezó a entender que los niños, niñas y adolescentes necesitan algo más que un techo y una cama.
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Climate Mobility and Childhood: Examining the Risks, Losing the Data and Evidence Gaps for Children on the Move (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)
A new report by the International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC), Climate Mobility and Childhood: Examining the risks, closing the data and evidence gaps for children on the move, considers how the well-being of children may be affected when climate change and human mobility intersect in their lives – or, what can be described as experiences of climate mobility. This Executive Summary provides the key messages and main findings of the report's four sections.
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Climate Mobility and Childhood: Examining the Risks, Losing the Data and Evidence Gaps for Children on the Move
This report by the International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC) sheds light on how climate mobility is impacting children’s well-being and offers recommendations for ensuring that children affected by climate-related migration are not overlooked.
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Transitioning from Aftercare Programme to the Community: A Study of Experiences of Male Orphan Youth Care Leavers in Maharashtra
This study details the journey of the Orphan and Destitute Youth in Aftercare Programme in Maharashtra, India. The study was conducted with the orphan youth who left the Seven Aftercare programmes both from Government and NGO-run Aftercare programme. It has discussed their challenges, experiences and support given during and post aftercare while orphan youth started their independent life.
Experiences, Challenges and Initiatives of Youth Care Leavers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Maharashtra, India
The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted the daily lives of people globally. In this narrative essay, the authors use the story-telling method to reflect on the challenges encountered and initiatives undertaken by a support group network for Youth Care Leavers (YCLs) community during the COVID-19 pandemic in Maharashtra, India.
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Addressing the Challenges and Agency of Youth Leaving Care in India During COVID-19
This article holds the State as responsible for the wellbeing of those it has taken the responsibility of protecting. These include people who have suffered violence, indignity, hunger and life-threatening circumstances. The five-year planning of state and district plans have utilised more resources than produced outcomes and output. In this article we put together a learning from strategies that can facilitate duty holders to emerge as more responsible actors during the pandemic that continues.
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City Light Church and New Hope Children’s Home: A Case of Divestment
This case study documents the complex process undertaken by a donor partner in Ireland* to push for the transition of their partner residential care service provider in Ghana. It follows their journey through the early stages of transition and eventually leads to their decision to divest of their funding and partnership.
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Transition Monitoring Tool
The purpose of the tool is to assist technical support practitioners to closely track and monitor the progress of residential care services transitions they are involved in. It can be used as a workplan to guide the implementation of a transition strategy, allowing practitioners to identify relevant transition activities, set progress-related goals, and monitor progress against those goals.
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Child Sponsorship and Transition: Interview with Laura Horvath - Helping Children Worldwide
In this interview, BCN’s Senior Technical Advisor, Rebecca Nhep, speaks with Laura Horvath, from Helping Children Worldwide, about the impact of child sponsorship programs on the transition of residential care services and post transition family strengthening programs.
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Divestment of Residential Care Services: Guidelines and Recommendations for Donors Supporting Residential Care Services
These guidelines have been written to guide donors and partners through the process of gathering information, making the decision to divest, securing buy-in internally for divestment, engaging with partners and stakeholders, developing a divestment plan, communicating that plan, and addressing any child safety concerns.
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