A Stakeholder Perspective on the Necessary Conditions for Successfully Implementing Parenting Interventions in Botswana

Hlengiwe Gwebu, Tendai Elvis Mutembedza, Jacqueline Kilby, Jeldau Rieff, Styn Jamu, Lisa Jamu, Nomsa Monare, Mary Mosenke, Mmannyana Margaret Nonong, Babedi Ncaagae, Yulia Shenderovich, Jamie Lachman, Lucie Cluver

This study seeks to evaluate the real-world experiences, challenges, and best practices in implementing parent support programs in Botswana.

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Diminishing their Voice through Choice? How ‘Selfplacing’ in Out-of-Home Care Affects Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-Making

Jemma Venables, Joel Cullin, Kathy Ellem, Karen Healy

This paper draws on the experiences of children and young people (CYP) who have self-placed in out-of-home care (OOHC) in Queensland (Australia) and the impact of that choice on their participation in decision-making.

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World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition [Executive Summary]

International Labour Organization (ILO)

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.

World Social Protection Report 2024-26: Universal Social Protection for Climate Action and a Just Transition

International Labour Organization (ILO)

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.

Webinar #19: Divestment Guidelines and Transition Monitoring Tool Launch

Transforming Children's Care Collaborative

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

Household Survey Summary - Moldova: Understanding Caregiver Protective Factors and Child Well-Being Amongst Families with Experience of Alternative Care

Changing the Way We 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.

Household Survey Summary - Guatemala: Understanding Caregiver Protective Factors and Child Well-Being Amongst Families with Experience of Alternative Care

Changing the Way We 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.

Shifting Norms and Values to Prevent Violence Against Children

the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), the INSPIRE Working Group, the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN)

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.

Household Survey Summary - Kenya: Understanding Caregiver Protective Factors and Child Well-Being Amongst Families with Experience of Alternative Care

Changing the Way We 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.

Climate Mobility and Childhood: Examining the Risks, Losing the Data and Evidence Gaps for Children on the Move (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)

International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC)

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

International Data Alliance for Children on the Move (IDAC)

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

Aditya Charegaonkar, Sudeshna Roy

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

Shivani Bhardwaj, Sudeshna Roy, Aditya Charegaonkar

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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