Report on National Assessment of Centres caring for Children with Disabilities in Rwanda

National Council of Persons with Disabilities, National Commission for Children, UNICEF

The purpose of this assessment was to review service delivery in centres for children with disabilities in Rwanda. This report establishes relevant baseline information on institutional capacity including services offered, staffing levels and other parameters regarding care of children with disabilities.

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2021 Kids Count Data Book

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic.

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Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection

Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian - UNICEF

This blog post by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian of the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti calls attention to the risks faced by women and girls in light of the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts of the pandemic on women and girls' unpaid care work.

Where do rich countries stand on childcare?

Anna Gromada and Dominic Richardson - UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti

This report published by UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, ranks countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) based on their national childcare and parental leave policies.

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The State of the World’s Fathers 2021

Gary Barker, Aapta Garg, Brian Heilman, Nikki van der Gaag, and Rachel Mehaffey - Promundo-US

The State of the World’s Fathers 2021 report – the fourth in the series – presents research on care work during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on structural barriers that prevent equitable distribution of caregiving between women and men.

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Making the case for monitoring and reporting on EU-wide progress in deinstitutionalisation and reform of child protection systems: Interim findings & recommendations from the DataCare Project

Eurochild

The DataCare Project seeks to map how EU Member States and the UK currently collect data on the situation of children in alternative care. This report presents the interim findings of this project, based on the analysis of 14 countries who participated in the study at the end of 2020.

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Tubarerere mu Muryango programme (‘Let’s raise children in families’): Inclusive Case Management for Children’s Reintegration - Participants' Handbook

National Child Development Agency, Rwanda and UNICEF Rwanda

This participant’s handbook relates to Module 3 of the Government of Rwanda’s Tubarerere Mu Muryango (TMM) training programme. It is for Child Protection and Welfare Officers who work directly with children and families on reintegration of children, including children with disabilities from residential institutions.

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Tubarerere mu Muryango programme (‘Let’s raise children in families’): Inclusive Case Management for Children’s Reintegration - Facilitators' Manual

National Child Development Agency, Rwanda and UNICEF Rwanda

This training package is primarily for Government of Rwanda’s Child Protection and Welfare Officers who work directly with children and families on reintegration of children (including children with disabilities) from residential institutions.

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Tubarerere mu Muryango programme (‘Let’s raise children in families’): Operational Guidance on Inclusive Children’s Reintegration

National Child Development Agency, Rwanda and UNICEF Rwanda

This operational guidance describes how the Government of Rwanda conducts case management for reintegration of children from residential institutions to family-based care, including children with disabilities.

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Estudio sobre la reforma del cuidado infantil en América Latina y el Caribe dirigido a desarrollar una estrategia regional de incidencia

Changing the Way We Care

El estudio llevó a cabo un ejercicio de recopilar prácticas prometedoras de reforma de cuidado infantil por parte de diversos actores clave en la región de América Latina y el Caribe. 

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The right to identify one’s ancestors, ‘limping parentage’ and origin deprivation

Alice Diver - Korean Adoptee Adoption Research Network

This seminar was given as part of the Korean Adoptee Adoption Research Network's inaugural seminar series, The Right to Know. Each speaker of the series discussed the concept of the right to origin and examined the broader social, legal and political implications in South Korea as a sending country along with experiences from North America and Europe as receiving countries.

Anonymous donation of sperm and oocytes: balancing the rights of parents, donors and children

Petra de Sutter, Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development - Parliamentary Assembly, Council of Europe

This report from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe looks at the right of donor-conceived persons to know their origins in a global context where more than 8 million children worldwide have been born as a result of assisted reproductive technologies.

ICAV Perspective Paper: Illicit Intercountry Adoptions - Lived Experience Views on How Authorities and Bodies Could Respond

Lynelle Long - Inter Country Adoption Voices

This paper from Inter Country Adoptee Voices (ICAV) attempts to bring together not only the voices and experiences of impacted intercountry adoptees who have lived experience with some form of illicit practice in their adoption, but also the voices of a few adoptive parents and first family representation. 

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Virtual Training Series on Civil Registration, Vital Statistics, Identity Management: Communication for Development targeting CRVS practitioners in LMICs

Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems

This series of 3 training sessions is based on the newly developed handbook on “Civil Registration, Vital Statistics, Identity Management: Communication for Development targeting CRVS practitioners in LMICs,” which provides guidance on the use of different tools to research, design, implement strategies and measure Social and Behavior Change/ Communication for Development.

Constructing the Foundations for Legal Identity in Post-Conflict Settings

Centre of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems - International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

This paper aims to contribute to the achievement of Target 16.9 under Sustainable Development Goal 16 by analyzing the role of the civil register and the legal underpinnings for identity in four countries: Afghanistan, Georgia, Rwanda, and South Africa. It describes institutional and operational models in each country that support universal registration of births, deaths, and other vital events.

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Webinar Recording: Constructing the foundations for legal identity in post conflict situations

Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data & Center of Excellence for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems at the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

This is a video recording from the webinar: Constructing the foundations for legal identity in post conflict situations. This webinar shared findings from research that documents how Afghanistan, Georgia, Rwanda and South Africa have made registration of vital events more accessible by adjusting or removing legal and institutional obstacles in post-conflict settings.

Access to Origins: Panorama on Legal and Practical Considerations - ISS/IRC comparative working paper 2: Spotlight on solutions

International Social Service (ISS)

This paper is aimed at supporting the professionals who accompany adoptees and their families in the process of searching for one's origins, and the various authorities with the competency to make decisions on this matter.

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