This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

A review of the evidence on deinstitutionalisation (DI) and the status of care reforms across Europe in 2016  from the Opening Doors for Europe's Children campaign - a pan-European campaign advocating for strengthening families and ending institutional care. 

This manual aims to help trainers, OVC programme staff and volunteers refocus on the non-material support they offer to children and to demonstrate how this can be offered in a structured way.

The ARC resource pack provides an essential collection of information and training material, to strengthen people’s capacity: to tackle the root causes of children’s vulnerabilities to build effective child protection systems for use in emergencies and long-term development to ensure that no activities inadvertently compromise children’s rights or safety.

This document accompanies the ARC Resource Pack modules and other materials and offers a glossary of terms used in the resource pack.

This training manual provides guidance on how to conduct ARC workshops based on the modules in the ARC Resource Pack.

This Critical issue module provides guidance and practical exercises aimed at increasing the ability of staff to respond appropriately and effectively to child separation in an emergency.

This toolkit has been produced as a resource for people who will be facilitating training using the ARC resource pack. It can be read alone as a basic introduction to facilitating training but it is best used in conjunction with ARC. It can also be used to form the  basis of a Training of Trainers for ARC. 

This module does not attempt to address all areas that affect children with disabilities in depth but aims to support the development of skills and knowledge in relation to emergency aspects, and to provide information and links for facilitators and trainers who require more detailed resources and guidance.

Introduction 

This module on community mobilisation has been developed as a resource for those humanitarian and emergency workers whose engagement with child protection, brings  them into contact with communities. 

This module provides practical information, guidelines, examples and tools to support  organisations and key actors to undertake advocacy to bring about positive change for  children in humanitarian contexts.

This module provides practical information, guidelines, inspiring case studies and participatory tools to support organisations and key adult actors to engage with  children as rights holders and social actors, supporting their participation in decision­  making processes, which affect them and their communities.

This module provides practical information, guidelines and participatory tools for  taking rights­-based approaches to programme planning and implementation. 

This module is intended to provide a basic understanding of one of the key concepts underlying ARC resource pack: child rights and rights based approaches and why they are important in emergency settings. 

This module aims to equip those responding in emergencies with an introduction to the theory and practice of working with children and of children’s rights. 

In the attached article Susanna Davies and Carol Batchelor discuss the importance of ensuring methods of resettlement are able to function in today’s global context. 

This infographic provides quick status reports on deinstitionalisation in the following countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Hungary, Poland and Romania.

This module aims to support the development of skills and knowledge in relation to emergency aspects of working with children affected by armed conflict, and to provide information and links for those who require more detailed resources and guidance.

This module places emphasis on understanding the vital need for re­establishing education during and after an emergency so as to minimise the psychological impact of the event and maximising the opportunity to strengthen pre­existing education structures. 

This module aims to provide guidance on essential aspects of child abuse and exploitation, highlighting the main forms of abuse and presenting some possible action against it.

This resource guide reflects the theme of the Office on Child Abuse and Neglect’s 20th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, "Building Community, Building Hope," which was held in Washington, DC, in August 2016. 

The attached study compared the care environments of family-based care and institutional care to determine if care environment contributed to differences in sexual behavior and/or sexual exploitation of orphaned and separated adolescents.

Three semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with twelve schoolchildren, aged 13–15 years for the purpose of exploring the knowledge and attitudes towards disability of young people within Moldova.

This abstract relays the findings of a survey on informal carers' views and opinions under the current conditions of social support in the Czech Republic.