This study sought to inform improvements in service delivery of Retrak’s Independent Living programme by listening to and documenting the voices of participants. 

Entre el 7 y 11 de marzo de 2017, investigadores de Disability Rights International (DRI) viajaron a Guatemala para entrevistar los sobrevivientes de vivienda institucional. Este documento presente la información recopilada y las recomendaciones de DRI a Guatemala.

The purpose of this paper is to map the current organisation and implementation of children’s services in three regions of Spain, to identify strengths and gaps and to suggest proposals for improvement in line with European recommendations.

This Report by Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan E. Méndez, to the UN Human Rights Council focuses on children deprived of their liberty from the perspective of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. It addresses the situation of children in institutions, and in particular their torture and ill-treament. 

This document provides a formative assessment on the state of children with disabilities in Zambia.

This study investigates the correlation over time between international adoption and institutional care.

This brief summarizes recent findings from two global, systematic reviews on the effectiveness of parenting interventions. 

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book finds today's youth — Generation Z — are healthier and completing high school on time despite mounting economic inequality and increasingly unaffordable college tuition.

The EAC Child Policy is the culmination of various processes geared towards the harmonisation of standards on and approaches to the implementation of child rights in the EAC. 

Este documento pretende impulsar un cambio en el paradigma de la institucionalización como respuesta a la situación de los niños, niñas y adolescentes privados de cuidados familiares. 

The goal of this final evaluation is to build on the mid-term review of a 3-year pilot community project established to address some of the push factors that were leading many children to come to the city of Addis Ababa from Ethiopia’s southern region (SNNPR). 

Due to poverty and military conflicts in the east, the number of children in institutional care in Ukraine has increased.

As of this Fact Sheet, Serbia has no comprehensive deinstitutionalization strategy. 

In 2018, there were still 185 institutions in Romania housing 6,632 children. 2,997 children with disabilities were living in 81 institutions for children with disabilities in Romania. The majority of children in out-of-home care were placed in family based care, including 18,317 children in foster care and 18,437 children in kinship care.

This Country Fact Sheet discusses Poland’s recent reforms to its institutional care system. 

This Country Fact Sheet from Moldova reports that since 2007, the number of children in institutional care has dropped from 12,000 to 2,214. 

Opening Doors for Children report in this Country Fact Sheet that despite the country’s efforts, Lithuania’s institutional rates remain very high.

This Country Fact Sheet from Latvia reports that there are currently 1,429 children in Latvia living in institutional care facilities.

This Country Fact Sheet discusses deinstitutionalization as part of Hungary’s child welfare and protection policy.

According to this Country Fact Sheet focusing Greece, there is no database holding data on children in alternative care in Greece.

This Estonia Country Fact Sheet highlights the transformations made in deinstitutionalization in Estonia since 2004.  By the end of 2015, there were 1,068 children in 38 residential care settings in Estonia.

This fact sheet highlights Bosnia and Herzegovina’s latest developments in Deinstitutionalization.

This fact sheet highlights Austria’s process in transforming institutional care towards community-based and family-based systems.

This short animation tells the story of a young boy and girl forced to flee their homes, and how detention can be avoided in order to complete their migration status.

This study is a snapshot of a multi-country study involving Italy, Peru, Viet Nam, and Zimbabwe of how individual characteristics, interpersonal relationships, and the communities in which people live interact with institutional drivers to increase or reduce a child’s risk of violence.

This global review examines past systematic reviews to determine whether parenting interventions help prevent child maltreatment. 

This report documents the life experiences of care leavers in Australia.  

In this article, Eric Rosenthal examines the implications of the report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Juan Méndez, focused on children deprived of liberty, on the placement of children in institutions and orphanages. 

This country fact sheet highlights the care reforms that Spain has instituted over the past few years. This sheet also provides short facts and the latest developments on children in alternative care in Spain.

A video from UAFA emphasizing the importance of early intervention.

In this issue of ODR, Maxim Tucker details the deinstitutionalization challenges facing Ukraine

This article discusses Bulgaria's challenges since the shut down of its crowded institutions, which housed disabled children.

This fact sheet from Lumos provides a short look at the world wide problem of children in orphanages.

This synthesis report contains findings of a study that conducted research in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries for the purpose of gaining understanding of the nature, extent, and scope of institutionalization and the feasibility of deinstitutionlisation.

This desk review examines the reasons children are being placed in care, evaluates the types of care in the region, and discusses regional efforts towards deinstitutionalisation.

This report is a case study of alternative child care in Indonesia. Research was conducted that found that with an estimate of 8,000 institutional facilities servicing 500,000 children, Indonesia was overly reliant on institutional care.

In the attached document, Lumos reports that 8 million children worldwide are in institutions globally.  

This report shares outcomes to date for a group of 1,292 children and young people with disabilities who have transitioned out of large residential institutions (institutions) into small group homes (SGHs) in the community.

This report, first distributed at the seminar co-hosted by Lumos and USAID on the challenge of institutionalization in Haiti, provides some background information on the effects of institutionalisation as well as the particular situation in Haiti.

This study provides a systematic review of the literature, focusing on the conceptualization and evaluation of continuity. 

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.

This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. 

This document provides an outline of the Workshop on Indicators and Information Systems, held on day 2 of the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.

This document provides a summary of the group discussions and recommendations from day 2 of the Alternative Care Workshop held in Bangkok in November 2005 to discuss children's care in the region, post-tsunami.

This presentation from Save the Children was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005.