This article from the Migration Policy Institute examines the impact of labor migration on children who are left behind, from an economic and social lens, and with particular attention to gendered implications.
This poster provides a brief overview of research conducted in Ghana to examine how institutionalized children’s hope for the future may be impacted by perceived social attachments.
This one-page presentation outlines the research questions, data, methods, results, literature review, discussion and implications of a study that looked at the effects of a child’s relationship to head of household, age, and orphan status on the severity of discipline they receive in Ghana, Iraq, Costa Rica, Vietnam,and Ukraine.
This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
MenCare India shares personal anecdotes from its 2013 Fathers Care Campaign.
MenCare is a global fatherhood campaign active in more than 30 countries on five continents. MenCare's mission is to promote men’s involvement as equitable, nonviolent fathers and caregivers in order to achieve family well-being, gender equality, and better health for mothers, fathers, and children.
This document includes a portion of the individual worksheets accompanying the Manual for the Measurement of Indicators for Children in Formal Care.
This report provides firsthand accounts of how MenCare+ is making a difference in the lives of individuals and families around the world.
These eight MenCare “Positive Discipline Fact Sheets,” authored by MenCare co-coordinator Sonke Gender Justice, debunk common myths about corporal punishment and promote positive discipline and caregiving.
This case study documents how the Matzikama Men and Boys Network, in conjunction with MenCare’s co-coordinator Sonke Gender Justice, have transformed gender and family norms in a rural municipality in South Africa.
This four-page publication describes World Vision and Promundo’s work in Sri Lanka in 2012-2013 as part of the MenCare campaign.
The first-ever State of the World's Fathers report, produced by MenCare, a global fatherhood campaign, provides a periodic, data-driven snapshot of the state of men's contributions to parenting and caregiving globally.
In this editorial, the authors outline four specific gaps in evidence on the connections between intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM) and present an integrated framework for moving the field forward with respect to the intersection of IPV and CM.
This article asks whether researchers should seek separate conceptualizations of fathers’ and mothers’ parenting behaviors. The researchers find that there is not sufficient evidence to conclude that the constructs of fathering and mothering are unique.
In this study, the researchers conducted a systematic database and a thematic hand search of the global literature on parenting interventions in order to gather and assess the evidence on father participation and impact in parenting interventions. This article presents the results of the study and identifies three key priorities for successfully engaging fathers.
This paper highlights the importance of promoting active fatherhood in achieving Save the Children’s goals. The paper suggests that engaging fathers in caregiving and building stronger relationships with their children can help to better protect and meet the needs of children.
Barn is a magazine about children’s rights published by Save the Children Sweden with four issues per year. This issue is focused on the role of fathers in children’s wellbeing and development.
This report captures the discussions and activities from a workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal on 17-19 October 2005 on engaging men as caregivers. The report presents a background and rationale, the expectations and objectives of the workshop, and an overview of work being done to engage fathers both in the region as well as globally.
This video was launched alongside the first ever “State of the World’s Fathers” report, produced by the MenCare Campaign. The video features interviews with fathers, mothers, and children.
CP MERG hosted a webinar on 27 May 2015 entitled “Evaluating Protection and Psychosocial Support in the Context of Humanitarian Settings” and now the webinar recording and powerpoint presentations are available on the CP MERG website.
In an effort to support practitioners to address some challenges of trying to undertake quality research, a group of child protection networks and organizations - the Community Child Protection Exchange, the CP MERG, the CPC Learning Network, and REPSSI - came together to produce this joint newsletter reflecting upon some groups’ successes and challenges working on child protection research and M&E, including working with a limited budget in low-resource settings.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) supported a sub-regional workshop held in Kigali March 23-26, 2015 to provide structured opportunities for technical exchange on care reform, approaches, methods, and tools. This report summarizes the activities and discussions from the workshop.
In this executive summary, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada provides an introduction to the use of residential schools for aboriginal children in Canada, presents an overview of the Commission’s activities, describes the history and legacy of these residential schools, and outlines the challenges of reconciliation, including 94 recommendations, or “calls to action” for reconciliation in the field of Child Welfare among many others.
El Servicio Social Internacional lanza su Manifiesto por una ética de la adopción internacional.
Le Service Social International lance son Manifeste pour une éthique de l’adoption internationale.
The International Social Service (ISS) has launched its Manifesto For Ethical Intercountry Adoption. The Manifesto seeks to promote ethical practices by all adoption stakeholders to better protect children, whether in the receiving country or country of origin, including inter alia, biological parents, adoptive parents, professionals and government representatives.
This report summarizes the discussions and activities held at Eurochild’s 11th Annual Conference, co-hosted by Hope and Homes for Children in Bucharest, Romania on 26-28 November 2014.
This caregiver guide, which accompanies an illustrated children’s book, is written for the caregivers of children affected by the Ebola crisis.
This downloadable children’s book, accompanied by a caregiver guide, is written for the children affected by the Ebola crisis, their caregivers and communities.
This video briefly recaps the Africa-Wide Children without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event hosted by Save the Children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 20-23 April 2015.
This article examines an alternative approach to child protection which consists of community-driven, bottom-up work that enables nonformal–formal collaboration and alignment, greater use of formal services, internally driven social change, and high levels of community ownership. The article offers a case example of a community-driven program in Sierra Leone.
Esta evaluación rápida, conducida por RELAF in colaboración con Save the Children y UNICEF, revisa las políticas públicas y servicios desarrollados por instituciones gubernamentales y no-gubernamentales perteneciendo al "Sistema de Protección Integral" para hacer frente a las cuestiones problemáticas que afectan los niños migrantes y sus familias en el Triángulo del Norte (El Salvador, Guatemala, y Honduras) y México.
Este informe está dirigido a sintetizar conceptos fundamentales y normas relativos a la protección de los derechos de los niños migrantes y adolescentes en el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica.
This KIDS COUNT policy report highlights the benefits of family care for children and the need to prioritize family settings for all children in the child welfare system in the United States.
This chapter presents conclusions, trends, conceptual analyses, hypotheses, and speculations regarding some fundamental issues of research, practice, and policy that are largely unsettled or controversial, regarding children without permanent parental care.
This study, coordinated by the United Nations Inter-agency Project on Human Trafficking, draws findings from in-depth interviews with 252 trafficked persons about their experiences of (re)integration, including successes and challenges, as well as future plans and aspirations.
The February-March 2015 double edition of the ISS Monthly Review includes an article by Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, which provides a brief overview of the Tracking Progress project and potential implications for users of the tool.
Various stakeholders, including Better Care Network, met at an Africa wide Program Learning Event on 20-23 April 2015, organized by Save the Children, under the theme “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” which brought together country, regional and global experts.
This presentation provides an overview of the status of care reform efforts in Africa. It identifies where care reform is underway as well as areas in which reform is still needed. The presentation looks ahead to what is needed to accelerate the momentum on care reform in the region.
This presentation was delivered at the Africa-Wide Children Without Appropriate Care Program Learning Event: “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” held in Ethiopia on 20-23 April 2015. It provides an overview of the Tracking Progress Initiative, which includes the development of a tool to measure country progress in implementing the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.
This ‘Top Ten Resources’ document lists the currently most relevant materials on Child Protection, as identified by Save the Children’s Child Protection Initiative (CPI).
This document provides an overview of the topics covered in the various sessions during the three-day program learning event “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” held in Ethiopia on 20-23 April 2015.
Various stakeholders, including Better Care Network, met at an Africa wide Program Learning Event on 20-23 April 2015, organized by Save the Children, under the theme “Shaping our care reform work across Africa,” which brought together country, regional and global experts. This document includes the agenda for the 3-day event.
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 during the seventy-fifth session (15 May 2017 - 2 Jun 2017) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' 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 and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committees' 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 protocol describes an ambitious experimental evaluation of a universal group based parenting support program, the Family Startup Program (FSP), currently implemented large scale in Denmark; an evaluation that has not yet been made either in Denmark or internationally.
This study examines the influence of a subset of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), placement instability, and childhood disability in uniquely predicting mental health outcomes among racially diverse foster care alumni from a private foster care agency in the US.
