This report describes the outcomes of the joint DCOF/UNICEF visit to Cambodia to assess a three-year, DCOF-funded project on Strengthening Systems to Protect Vulnerable Children and Families in Cambodia.

This assessment examines shelter and community-based care models for victims of trafficking in Cambodia, and explores the best practices of service providers. 

This study investigates the impact of reintegration of children from five transitional shelters into their families in Cambodia, and explores key factors  (such as consistent and regular follow-up), that contribute to positive, stable outcomes for them.

This study assesses the development, social integration and post-return reintegration issues facing child victims of trafficking and migration related exploitation in shelters and orphanages in Cambodia.  

This brief provides an overview of alternative care in Cambodia, including key achievements, challenges and recommended actions for preventing and regulating residential care, and strengthening family-based care. 

This report presents an overview of the findings of four separate studies conducted in vulnerable communities in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam on knowledge, attitudes and practices related to child sexual abuse, including in travel and tourism.

This report is a shortened version of a desk review of children’s movements in the context of regional migration (Children’s Migration: Diversities, Exploitation, Participation and Protection in the Greater Mekong Sub-region of South-East Asia, available separately from Save the Children).

This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the alternative care situation in Cambodia, including residential and family-based care. 

This document provides minimum standards and guidelines for service providers who work with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Cambodia.

This law lays out the principles, conditions, procedures and regulations for inter-country adoption in Cambodia.

Global Strategy – Beyond Detention 2014-2019 is a document released by UNHCR, which aims to support governments to end the detention of asylum-seekers and refugees.  

This study uses data from The China Health and Nutrition Survey to determine trends in grandparents’ provision of childcare. 

The study aimed to gain insight into the migration experiences of children who cross international borders unaccompanied. 

Ce rapport est de faire du droit une réalité dans le Grand lac de la région de l'Afrique de l'enfant.

This study assesses reintegration trajectories of child soldiers in Burundi several years after demobilization. It looks broadly at socioeconomic and mental health indicators of a large group of former child soldiers and never recruited peers, both of who participated in an economic support program.

This article outlines findings from research on current and former street children in Burundi, that assesses the extent to which violence can affect children’s mental well-being and psychological functioning, and thus limit their reintegration.

Cet article fournit un aperçu utile des initiatives du Burundi dans le domaine de la protection des enfants, y compris le travail pour élaborer des normes minimales pour les établissements de garde d'enfants et de soutenir les enfants vivant dans les rues.

Le présent rapport décrit la stratégie du Burundi pour le renforcement des initiatives nationales de protection sociale, y compris le soutien aux orphelins et aux enfants vulnérables.

Ce rapport documente une initiative visant à assurer la sécurité et la justice au Burundi acteurs de la protection des enfants et la formation aux droits de l'enfant, dans le cadre d'un projet régional plus large.

Ce rapport documente la situation des enfants des rues au Burundi, y compris les facteurs qui les poussent dans les rues, et analyse les initiatives nationales cadres et gouvernementales législatives en place pour soutenir leurs soins et de protection.

This article reports on the findings of a study of foreign children, including from Burundi, accommodated in the care system in the Western Cape, based on fieldwork conducted in child and youth care centres (CYCCs). 

This research explores links between child protection and peacebuilding. It includes a section examining community child protection mechanisms in Burundi.

This examination of Burundi’s Second Periodic Report to the Committee on the Rights of the Child includes a section on Alternative Care and Family Environment that details Burundi’s progress and challenges in areas such as regulation of adoption and residential care for children. 

This report provides a review of two projects: Building a Caring Environment for Children in Burundi (UNICEF), which addresses child care reform and New Generation (IRC) which addresses household economic strengthening and parenting skills. 

This is an impact evaluation of New Generation,  a three-year project comprised of two components: 1) A VSLA intervention involving the establishment of Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and the provision of entrepreneurship and financial literacy education and 2) A fami

This brief presents the results of the mid-term evaluation of the New Generation project - a three-year project comprised of two components: 1) A VSLA intervention involving the establishment of Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) and the provision of entrepreneurship and financial lite

Cet article donne un bref aperçu de la question des mendiants et des enfants de la rue dans la ville de Bujumbura, au Burundi.

Ce document décrit les principes, les objectifs, et les stratégies d’une politique nationale pour la protection des OEV au Burundi.

This article studies different medical and psychological models of orphanhood and the effects these models have on the resiliency of orphanhood.

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

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

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

While there is a good amount of trafficking research that focuses on Africa, much of the research has greatly neglected child trafficking and its traits within the borders of a particular country. The goal of this article is to take stock of the child trafficking situation within Madagascar’s borders. This article examines the impact of supply-and-demand factors on child trafficking in Madagascar and discusses the approaches that should be used in the implementation of anti-trafficking policies.

This study investigates the effects of Community Care Coalitions on child protection in Assosa City, Ethiopia. It explores services and strategies employed by Community Care Coalitions to address child protection, as well as challenges faced by Community Care Coalitions while attempting to provide these services.

This paper highlights the difficulties faced by foreign minors and how the gaps in law leave them undocumented, vulnerable and unable to access social services. This paper also discusses how South Africa’s approach to accompanied and unaccompanied foreign minor children provides no durable long term solutions for these children, effectively leaving them in a legal hole once they reach the age of majority.

In this research paper Asnakech Tesfaye explores the expectations of Ethiopian children applying for an Australian Orphan Visa.  Tesfaye’s research found children applying for visas expected to get better education, employment, material benefits and living conditions. 

This article discusses how the resilience of foster children can be increassed, and their outcomes changed through the responsible and intentional interventions of health care professionals, child welfare workers, and communities.

This article discusses adoption in the international human rights framework.  Most specifically, it focuses on the rights of the child and how to proceed with adoptions by keeping in mind the best interest of the child.  

This is a statutory instrument detailing rules and regulations surrounding alternative care homes. This instrument defines what is necessary for the care and well-being of children within alternative care, and what they require medically and socially.

In this National Action Plan for Child Well-Being, Uganda spells out goals, plans, and actions it needs to take to improve child well-being in Uganda.   The document points out that 62 percent of persons living in poverty are children.  It notes that 33 percent of children under 5 are stunted, and it further states that only 37 percent of children make it to secondary education. 

This article presents findings from a study on children who were adopted by lesbian or gay parents from within the United States foster care system, as well as a survey from the adoptive parents.  The article reviews the controversial issues facing gay and lesbian adoptive parents.  

“Paper Orphans: Exploring Child Trafficking for the Purpose of Orphanages” serves as a legal analysis of child trafficking for the purpose of filling orphanages.  This paper focuses on the displacement of the child and intends to determine whether or not this displacement can be determined as trafficking under international law.

The purpose of this report is to review the current conditions of the global social workforce.  This study is meant to identify critical gaps in order prioritize current workforce strengthening research.

This paper discusses a large evaluation study that attempts to describe the impacts of the alcohol control laws enacted in various indigenous communities.   Participants were interviewed and asked to give their thoughts on how the laws have affected them medically, economically and socially.

Establishing the context of this study of adoptive parenthood and open adoption, MacDonald describes the legal, policy, and social frameworks that shape the experience of adoptive parenthood. The role of adoption in child welfare policy is identified, specifically in the UK and USA where it provides permanence for significant numbers of children in State care.

This research examined psychological and background correlates of bullying in adolescent residential care. Young people aged 11–21 (N = 601) from 22 residential institutions in Croatia completed an anonymous self-reported bullying questionnaire, the Basic Empathy Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale and the Big Five Personality Inventory.

This study was aimed to identify adjustment problems of adolescents residing in an orphanage in Kerala, India, as well as to find out the association between adjustment problems of adolescents residing at orphanage with their socio-demographic variables. 

This document is a report on a study which involved a survey of all foreign-born children placed in child and youth care centers across South Africa’s Western Cape Province.  The study examines the intersection between migration law and children’s rights.  

This report examines the effects the 2015 Nepal earthquakes had on vulnerable populations.  It lists several concerns faced since the earthquake, which include the thousands of people who have lost their homes and children left unaccompanied.