Community-Centered Integrated Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rwanda

Agnès Binagwaho, Julia Noguchi, Marie-Noëlle Senyana-Mottier, Mary C. Smith Fawzi - JOINT LEARNING INITIATIVE ON CHILDREN AND HIV/AIDS

The overall goal of this case study is to provide in sufficient detail the process that follows from initial ideas/ vision, government policy development, the creation of national strategic plan of action, local (district-level) program and work plan development, and ultimately program implementation, including monitoring and evaluation (M&E).

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Baseline Study: Children's Perceptions of Child Protection Measures Existing at Community Level in Rwanda

Enrico Rampazzo and Alfred Twahirwa - Save the Children

This participatory baseline is part of a multi-country study commissioned by Save the Children targeting selected areas of Rwanda, Ethiopia and North-Sudan. The purpose of the multi-country study is to address the UN Study on Violence Against Children’s recommendations and assess the role of communities in ensuring that children are protected from violence and abuse at all levels. 

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Report of the International Year of the Family +20 Regional Experts Meeting

PAN (in partnership with ICS, Africa Fatherhood Initiative, SOS Children's Villages Kenya)

This is a report of the proceedings of PAN’s contributions to the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family (and the 10th anniversary of the Plan of Action - PoA - on the family in Africa) through a Regional Experts meeting whose theme was dubbed “Restoring families as the Pillar of Development in Africa”. 

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Counting Children Outside of Family Care: Children in Orphanages and Other Institutions

Florence Martin - Better Care Network

This presentation, delivered by Better Care Network Director Florence Martin at the 18-19 July #ChildrenCount17 conference, demonstrates the need for comprehensive national data systems, as well as what kind of data should be collected, barriers to thorough data collection, and examples of strong national-level efforts to collect comprehensive data on children living outside of family care. 

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Ending the criminalisation of children in residential care: Briefing one

The Howard League

This briefing the first in a series describing a programme of the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is intended to clarify why so many children in residential care in England and Wales are being criminalised at higher rates than their peers and identify examples of best practice to prevent their unnecessary criminalisation. 

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Feasibility and efficacy of an attachment-based intervention in a maltreatment sample in residential care: A pilot study

Marta Casonato, Sarah Nazzari, Alessandra Frigerio - Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

This study measured the effectiveness of a Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline program for mothers and their 10- to 36-month-old children placed in parental residential care. 

Monthly data collection on the migration situation in the EU: July 2017

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)

This report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) provides data on migration throughout the EU from 1-30 June 2017. The report includes data on the child protection situation for migrant children, particularly the identification, emergency placement and accommodation of unaccompanied children. 

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Improving the effectiveness of the child protection system: Overview

Donna Molloy, Steve Barton and Lucy Brims - Early Intervention Foundation

This overview report provides a summary of key findings and lessons from five detailed research papers investigating what has proven to improve outcomes for children in the child protection system, what programs and services are delivered locally in the child protection system, and what is known about the overall effectiveness of the child protection system. 

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Practical guide to foster community acceptance of girls associated with armed groups in DR Congo

Marie de la Soudière - Child Soldiers International

This guide is presented as a “toolbox” to help DDR actors respond to the needs of girls formerly associated with armed groups in eastern DRC, and to overcome the many obstacles to their release and reintegration, reported by some of the girls themselves.

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What the girls say: Improving practices for the demobilisation and reintegration of girls associated with armed forces and armed groups in Democratic Republic of Congo

Marie de la Soudière - Child Soldiers International

This report presents the findings of research conducted by Child Soldiers International to assess the effectiveness of release, psychosocial recovery and reintegration interventions for girls associated with armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 

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A survival analysis of the length of foster parenting duration and implications for recruitment and retention of foster parents

Haksoon Ahn, Elizabeth J. Greeno, Charlotte Lyn Bright, Samantha Hartzel, & Sarah Reiman - Children and Youth Services Review

This study sought to examine the factors associated with the length of foster parenting duration. Study results will contribute to developing implications for successful recruitment and retention policies and practices for foster parents.

Opportunities for Strengthening Families Through Positive Discipline: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (KAP) Study

PAN & Save the Children International

This study intended to develop data regarding how families parent and nurture good behaviour in their children; whether they know what would constitute nonviolent (positive) discipline; and if they actually utilized the positive aspects of disciplining. The study was conducted in specific areas (study clusters) in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda. 

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