Ce document fournit des conseils pratiques aux acteurs du monde humanitaire et du développement sur les adaptations et les facteurs nécessaires à prendre en compte pour soutenir les enfants, que ces derniers soient actuellement soumis à la prise en charge de remplacement ou en attente de placement durant la pandémie de COVID-19.

Case Management Procedures for Reunification and Reintegration of Children and Adolescents into Family and Community-based Care was developed together with Secretary of Social Welfare (SBS), the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (PNA), Guatemala’s Attorney General (PGN), the Judicial Branch (OJ), the National Council of Adoptions (CNA), ASOCRIGUA and Hogar Aldeas de Esperanza. It was informed by Changing the Way We Care’s work in Kenya on the Caseworker’s Guidebook: Case Management for Reintegration of Children into Family or Community-Based Care, adapted to the Guatemalan context.

This resource aims to provide evidence-based messages, practical guidance, case studies and resources that can be used to promote parents’ and caregivers’ mental health, with a focus on adolescent caregivers.

Los Procedimientos de Manejo de Casos para la Reunificación y Reintegración de los Niños, Niñas y Adolescentes al cuidado Familiar y Comunitaria se desarrollaron a través de talleres participativos en conjunto con la Secretaría de Bienestar Social (SBS), la Procuraduría de la Niñez y la Adolescencia (PNA) de la Procuraduría General de la Nación (PGN), El Organismo Judicial (OJ), El Consejo Nacional de Adopciones (CNA), la Asociación de Hogares Cristianos de Guatemala (ASOCRIGUA) y Hogar Aldeas de Esperanza. Se basó en el trabajo de Changing the Way We Care de Kenia en la Guía para trabajadores sociales: Manejo de casos para la reintegración de niños y niñas en cuidado familiar o comunitaria, adaptada al contexto guatemalteco.

This study was a small-scale piece of qualitative research that involved 21 semistructured interviews with founders, funders, and directors of RCIs across 7 countries. It was designed to better understand the impacts of COVID-19 on the operations of residential care institutions including funding, staffing, volunteering, children’s care, education, family connection and reintegration.

Study that investigates the situation of children and adolescents who have temporarily or permanently lost the care of their families and reside in INAU institutions: the reasons for admission, the length of stay, their family situation. In turn, this information is analyzed in conjunction with the response capacity of the institution (human resources and infrastructure).

This study provides a deep, nuanced understanding of the lived experience and mental models of young people who have recently lived in institutional placements while in foster care. It offers an understanding of institutional placements from youths’ perspectives.

The Child Rescue Centre was the first orphanage in Sierra Leone to successfully complete a transition from residential to family-based care. This case study highlights some of the key dynamics that arose throughout the transition of the orphanage and examines how those dynamics both influenced the transition and determined the type of support provided as well as the most appropriate transition strategy.

The assessment of COVID-19 effect on the Wellbeing of Children in Uganda was conducted between June and August, 2020 by AfriChild Centre, Makerere University. The study took a retrospective approach with a focus on the three months of the COVID-19 lock down (AprilJune 2020) to counter contradictions that could arise from a longer study period in the face of changing dynamics of COVID-19.

This report on the State of Uganda’s Fathers is the first of its kind. The first State of the World’s Fathers Report was published in 2015. This report was monumental in that it highlighted information about fathers and men’s caregiving globally.

A day after the United States of America announced financial and visa restrictions against two Ugandan judges, the Judiciary came out with at least seven new guidelines that they think will address concerns surrounding child adoption.

Over the past two decades of humanitarian work in northern Uganda, national and international child-focused organisations as well as government departments responsible for children have built a rich body of knowledge that has informed child protection work throughout the country. The development of this Child Protection Curriculum and related training materials is therefore a first step by the Ministry of Gender, the Ministry of Labour and Social Development, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Child Protection Working Group in Uganda, and selected academic institutions to professionalise the child protection sector within the broader realm of social work in Uganda.

Strengthening Uganda’s National Response for Implementation of Services for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (SUNRISE-OVC) is a five-year project, which began June 2010, to deliver and monitor high quality, comprehensive and scaled-up services for OVC in 80 out of 112 districts in Uganda. The project was funded by USAID, working in partnership with the Government of Uganda’s (GoU) Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) for oversight.

This report represents the successful integration of multidimensional child poverty measures in national statistics. In doing so it provides a better understanding of child poverty in Uganda by augmenting Uganda’s rich tradition of poverty analysis with a more deprivation-centred analytical tool.

Children with disabilities in Africa are among the most neglected groups in the policy domain as well as in the private sphere. The majority of these children face enormous economic, political, and social barriers that have an adverse impact on their physical, social and intellectual development and wellbeing.

In 2001 the Republic of Uganda's Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) issued the Basic Requirements and Minimum Standards Indicators for Education Institutions (BRMS) to schools and other relevant stakeholders to guide the organization and management of educational institutions. This BRMS has been reviewed by a multi-sectoral team comprising of members from the public and private sectors, development partners, international and national NGOs and other organizations.

In this paper Development Pathways’ Stephen Kidd discusses the success of Uganda’s Senior Citizens’ Grant (SCG), with evidence from the evaluation of the programme.

This report presents findings from qualitative research conducted with a range of children, young people and parents in vulnerable or seldom heard groups, carried out to explore their lived experiences during and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report presents the findings of the COVID 4P Log Project, which sought to better understand the changing demands on the policies and practices designed to support children's wellbeing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic across different cultures and contexts, in 22 countries and five continents.

This report was prepared by CELCIS in collaboration with local authorities and stakeholders in Scotland to inform the Scottish Government Children and Families Collective Leadership Group's consideration of the impact of COVID-19 on children and families.

The goals of Catholic Care for Children in Uganda (CCCU) are to enable children to grow up in safe environments, reduce recourse to institutional care, and encourage family- and community-based care for children. This midterm evaluation examines what has been accomplished in the four years since the program began.

This briefing paper draws on data and findings from the report: Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions: Insights and Implications for Advocacy and Awareness Raising.

This briefing paper draws on data and findings from the report: Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions: Insights and Implications for Advocacy and Awareness Raising.

This briefing paper draws on data and findings from the report: Impact of COVID-19 on Privately Run Residential Care Institutions: Insights and Implications for Advocacy and Awareness Raising.