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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.

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.

This learning brief documents the process of care reform policy development and financing improvements in Nyamira County, Kenya, following the enactment of the Child Policy and the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2023.

This learning brief explores the formalization and replication of Kafaalah, an Islamic practice of caring for orphans and vulnerable children, as an alternative family-based care option in Kenya.

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.

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.

Shifting Norms and Values to Prevent Violence Against Children

June 3, 2024:

This webinar unpacks lessons learnt from successful parenting and caregiver interventions in lower-middle-income countries.

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.

This webinar showcases global approaches to creating safe environments and communities. Speakers focused on the lessons learned, challenges, adaptations and key ingredients of successful interventions.

Hace aproximadamente dos décadas, el mundo empezó a entender que los niños, niñas y adolescentes necesitan algo más que un techo y una cama.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 في ا اذهلترّرّ  قرد  الببنّا ةلتمتا   رلنامة  متمتا الأباا  ذوا يلمهق أحا قورلإتنا  وجهات   نظّ  ونتائج  مشــــــــّوت أح  مشــــــــتّا  وقوفــــــــةات أشــــــــا  نلتب ةا نم للتحدحاا تلنموة  والتمارب الحةاقةﺔ للأطفال ذوا ي

En el presente informe, la Experta Independiente sobre el disfrute de los derechos humanos de las personas con albinismo presenta diversas perspectivas, las conclusiones de un proyecto de investigación conjunta y recomendaciones para hacer frente a la difícil situación que viven a diario las niñas y los niños con albinismo y mejorar sus experiencias vitales en el contexto del derecho a vivir en familia.

В настоящем докладе Независимый эксперт по вопросу об осуществлении прав человека людьми с альбинизмом излагает точки зрения, результаты осу-ществления совместного исследовательского проекта и рекомендации по реше-нию повседневных проблем и улучшению жизненной ситуации детей с альби-низмом в контексте права на семейную жизнь.

Dans le présent rapport, l’Experte indépendante sur l’exercice des droits de l’homme par les personnes atteintes d’albinisme expose des points de vue ainsi que les conclusions d’un projet de recherche conjoint, et formule des recommandations pour atténuer les difficultés quotidiennes rencontrées par les enfants atteints d’albinisme et pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie, dans le contexte du droit à une vie de famille.

This report interrogates the normative framework governing child participation in South Africa. It provides an analysis of international human rights obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

This study examines the socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19-induced poverty among households with children in refugee-hosting districts of Uganda, comparing refugee and host households. It also investigates the role of social assistance in preventing poverty.

This study was based in Southern Australia and aimed to examine the association between child maltreatment and the receipt of income support payments and the budgetary impact for persons 16 to 33 years.

The report documents the effects of conflict on children in the Sudan, highlighting trends and patterns of the six grave violations against children, namely the recruitment and use of children, the killing and maiming of children, rape and other forms of sexual violence against children, attacks on schools, hospitals and protected persons in relation to schools and/or hospitals, a the abduction of children and the denial of humanitarian access.

This paper aims to examine the social support network structures of youth in out-of-home care in the U.S. and to delineate the type of social support activities provided by kin and fictive kin within the networks.

This fact sheet was engages with experts, particularly those with lived experience of human trafficking, to provide expertise and input on the U.S. Department of State anti-trafficking policies, strategies, and products. The authors have a range of expertise related to human trafficking, marginalized communities, trauma recovery, education, mental health care, and survivor leadership.

The South African Early Childhood Review 2024 tracks data on the status of children under six years. 

This study highlights the absence of intimate parental care due to many sociopolitical circumstances in India, which creates a vacuum in fostering early childhood care. The objectives were to determine the dilemmas faced by care providers in the limited resources division between their own and their kin’s child and the invisible social stigma associated with the tag of orphans.

This working paper describes the core care conditions that young children, their parents / caregivers and their families need to flourish. The paper is intended for policymakers and practitioners in Australia who are designing and delivering services and supports to young children and their families.

This study shows that, when researching historical compulsory social measures, the inclusion of formerly institutionalised individuals in development and implementation is not only feasible, but is of significant benefit to the quality of the research.

The current study assesses a protocol designed to mitigate risks in a population-based cohort of 246 individuals placed in care institutions as infants in a non-selective 60-year follow-up. In total, 116 (47%) individuals chose to participate, of whom 53 (55%) reported positive effects of participation such as the opportunity to fill some gaps in their life stories, to better deal with their past, and to understand previous family dynamics.

This study uses data from a survey on the health and development of 420 children mostly under the age of three, placed in 12 infant care institutions between 1958 and 1961 in Zurich, Switzerland. The children exhibited significant delays in cognitive, social, and motor development in the first years of life. Moreover, a follow-up of a subsample of 143 children about 10 years later revealed persistent difficulties, including depression, school related-problems, and stereotypes.

This study aimed to investigate developmental outcomes of children raised in institutions in Switzerland in conditions of psychosocial deprivation and to identify possible risk and protective factors at institutional and child levels.

Serviciile alternative de tip familial sunt un element cheie în reforma sistemului de îngrijire a copilului în Moldova. Totuși, copiii cu dizabilități sunt, încă, sub-reprezentați în grupul de copii în familiile de asistenți parentali profesioniști și părinți-educatori din casele de copii de tip familie. Unul dintre obstacolele menționate de specialiștii în domeniu, de asistenții parentali profesioniști și părinții-educatori este sprijinul financiar insuficient, care limitează accesul copiilor cu dizabilități în servicii de tip familial.

This study proposed a multicomponent model of implementation strategies to empirically examine the degree of adoption of evidence-based practice (EBP) at national, agency, and practitioner levels in a sample of 20 member countries of the European family support network.

Gillian Huebner, Executive Director of the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues at Georgetown University, spoke with Karla Jones & Brooklyn Roberts about the children who have been kidnapped and disappeared during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The purpose of this longitudinal study conducted on institutionalized infants and toddlers in Switzerland from 1958 to 1961 and then 60 years later on the same group, is to investigate the effects of psychosocial deprivation on cognitive functioning in late adulthood.

In this study the authors explored the coping resources and assets of care leavers during and following the pandemic from the perspective of 44 care leavers in Israel aged 18–29.