Report on Results of the Implementation of the Action Plan for Improving Child Care with the Target of Safely Returning 30 Percent of Children in Residential Care to their Families by 2019

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY)

This report presents the outcomes of the implementation of the Cambodian Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) Action Plan for Improving Child Care and the safe return of 30 per cent of children in residential care to their families, including key achievements, lessons learned, and recommendations going forward.

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Study Report on Good Practices in Family Preservation and Prevention of Family Separation Programming in Cambodia

Kirsten Anderson - Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC)

This report provides in-depth analysis of programs of 7 different NGOs in Cambodia working on the prevention of family separation and family preservation in order to respond to risks related to physical and mental well-being and domestic violence.

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Prakas on Procedures to Implement Kinship Care and Foster Care

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) - Kingdom of Cambodia

This Prakas was drafted in accordance with Cambodia’s policies, standards and regulations to enable the implementation of kinship care and foster care. The Goal of the Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and protect the basic rights of the child separated from his/her biological parents and receiving kinship or foster care, so that they are safe and thriving in a warm, loving and happy family environment.

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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

This report draws on data from 148 countries and explores issues of particular relevance in the current crisis, including the impact of socio-economic factors, drivers of child trafficking and trafficking for forced labour, and traffickers’ use of the internet.

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Webinar: Learning Session on Alternative Care in the COVID 19 Pandemic (for the Indian Context)

This webinar featured presentations and discussions from practitioners who have experience of working on alternative care (short term and long term) and prioritising family-based care in emergency settings that could be helpful for practitioners in India as they plan a response for children who have lost parents to COVID-19.

Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study

Susan D Hillis, H Juliette T Unwin, Yu Chen, Lucie Cluver, Lorraine Sherr, Philip S Goldman, et al - The Lancet

This study used mortality and fertility data to model minimum estimates and rates of COVID-19-associated deaths of primary or secondary caregivers for children younger than 18 years in 21 countries.

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70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons from the Jamaica Experiment

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Rubio-Codina, Norbert Schady - Inter-American Development Bank, Social Protection and Health Division

This document compares three versions of the same home visiting model, aimed at improving parent-child interactions and child development: the well-known Jamaica model, which was gradually scaled up from an efficacy trial (‘proof of concept’) in Jamaica, to a pilot in Colombia, to an at-scale program in Peru.

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Mapping U.S. Support for Orphanages Abroad: Key Findings & Strategic Recommendations

Better Care Network and ReThink Orphanages

This report lays out the results of a preliminary mapping exercise to document the ways in which the United States supports and perpetuates overseas orphanages. It is based on: an analysis of existing data; a literature review of U.S government publications and investments; a review of non-profit organizations and foundation activities; an analysis of key supply chains and stakeholders; and the identification of existing data gaps.

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Transforming Children's Care Webinar #4: Child's Right to Identity in Alternative Care

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, Child Identity

This webinar, the fourth in a series from the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, explored the importance of protecting the child’s right to identity in how it is created, how it may be modified and/or falsified in alternative care as well as the need to preserve information about the child’s identity, notably family relations.

“Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees

JaeRan Kim - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study sought to understand how intercountry adoptees with adoption discontinuity histories experience legal, relational, and residential permanency losses through the framework of ambiguous loss and trauma.