Situația Actuală La Nivel Național În Prestarea Serviciilor Sociale Destinate Copiilor Şi Familiilor Vulnerabile În Republica Moldova

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC)

Analiza a vizat revizuirea tuturor categoriilor de servicii sociale pentru copiii și familiile vulnerabile, cu accent specific pe  serviciile de prevenire și răspuns.

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Rezumatul analizei situaționale efectuate în cadrul inițiativei CTWWC Moldova

Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC)

În perioada ianuarie-iunie 2021, Changing the Way We Care în Moldova, împreună partenerii săi cheie P4EC, CCF și Keystone Moldova, a efectuat șapte studii de cercetare privind diferite elemente ale sistemului de îngrijire și protecție a copiilor din Moldova, care, atunci când sunt citite împreună, oferă o imagine cuprinzătoare a sistemului.

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Unsafe In Foster Care

Deepa Fernandes and Victora Estrada - Latino USA

This two-part investigation looks into Los Angeles County’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the largest child welfare agency in the U.S., and what happens when the system that is meant to protect these children falls short—and even puts their lives at risk.

Children: The Hidden Pandemic 2021 – A joint report of COVID-19- associated orphanhood and a strategy for action

Global Reference Group on Children Affected by COVID-19: Joint Estimates and Action

This report presents statistical data from 192 countries on children experiencing COVID-19-associated orphanhood and death of grandparent caregivers, a description of the trends in these data, a real-time COVID-19 Calculator for Death of Parents and Caregivers, and strategies and principles for integrating care for children bereaved by the virus into every nation’s COVID-19 response planning.

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Khmer: Prakas on Procedures to Implement Kinship Care and Foster Care

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) - Kingdom of Cambodia

The Goal of the Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and protect the basic rights of the child separated from his/her biological parents and receiving kinship or foster care, so that they are safe and thriving in a warm, loving and happy family environment.

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Khmer: Cambodia Child Protection Monitoring Framework - Care Indicators and Metadata: A working document to guide the establishment of the Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS) in Cambodia

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY)

This document (written in Khmer), the Cambodia Child Protection Monitoring Framework, contains 50 core indicators considered important in assessing the child protection system in Cambodia.

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Khmer: Report on Results of the Implementation of the Action Plan for Improving Child Care with the Target of Safely Returning 30 Percent of Children in Residential Care to their Families by 2019

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY)

This report (in Khmer) presents the outcomes of the implementation of the Action Plan for improving child care with the target of safely returning 30 per cent of children in residential care to their families, including key achievements, lessons learned, and recommendations going forward.

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Report on Results of the Implementation of the Action Plan for Improving Child Care with the Target of Safely Returning 30 Percent of Children in Residential Care to their Families by 2019

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY)

This report presents the outcomes of the implementation of the Cambodian Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) Action Plan for Improving Child Care and the safe return of 30 per cent of children in residential care to their families, including key achievements, lessons learned, and recommendations going forward.

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Study Report on Good Practices in Family Preservation and Prevention of Family Separation Programming in Cambodia

Kirsten Anderson - Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC)

This report provides in-depth analysis of programs of 7 different NGOs in Cambodia working on the prevention of family separation and family preservation in order to respond to risks related to physical and mental well-being and domestic violence.

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Prakas on Procedures to Implement Kinship Care and Foster Care

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation (MoSVY) - Kingdom of Cambodia

This Prakas was drafted in accordance with Cambodia’s policies, standards and regulations to enable the implementation of kinship care and foster care. The Goal of the Prakas is to ensure the best interests of the child and protect the basic rights of the child separated from his/her biological parents and receiving kinship or foster care, so that they are safe and thriving in a warm, loving and happy family environment.

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Global Report on Trafficking in Persons

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

This report draws on data from 148 countries and explores issues of particular relevance in the current crisis, including the impact of socio-economic factors, drivers of child trafficking and trafficking for forced labour, and traffickers’ use of the internet.

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Webinar: Learning Session on Alternative Care in the COVID 19 Pandemic (for the Indian Context)

This webinar featured presentations and discussions from practitioners who have experience of working on alternative care (short term and long term) and prioritising family-based care in emergency settings that could be helpful for practitioners in India as they plan a response for children who have lost parents to COVID-19.

Global minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and deaths of caregivers: a modelling study

Susan D Hillis, H Juliette T Unwin, Yu Chen, Lucie Cluver, Lorraine Sherr, Philip S Goldman, et al - The Lancet

This study used mortality and fertility data to model minimum estimates and rates of COVID-19-associated deaths of primary or secondary caregivers for children younger than 18 years in 21 countries.

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70 to 700 to 70,000: Lessons from the Jamaica Experiment

M. Caridad Araujo, Marta Rubio-Codina, Norbert Schady - Inter-American Development Bank, Social Protection and Health Division

This document compares three versions of the same home visiting model, aimed at improving parent-child interactions and child development: the well-known Jamaica model, which was gradually scaled up from an efficacy trial (‘proof of concept’) in Jamaica, to a pilot in Colombia, to an at-scale program in Peru.

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Mapping U.S. Support for Orphanages Abroad: Key Findings & Strategic Recommendations

Better Care Network and ReThink Orphanages

This report lays out the results of a preliminary mapping exercise to document the ways in which the United States supports and perpetuates overseas orphanages. It is based on: an analysis of existing data; a literature review of U.S government publications and investments; a review of non-profit organizations and foundation activities; an analysis of key supply chains and stakeholders; and the identification of existing data gaps.

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Transforming Children's Care Webinar #4: Child's Right to Identity in Alternative Care

Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, Child Identity

This webinar, the fourth in a series from the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform, explored the importance of protecting the child’s right to identity in how it is created, how it may be modified and/or falsified in alternative care as well as the need to preserve information about the child’s identity, notably family relations.

“Forever family is like a manufactured Hallmark idea”: Adoption discontinuity experiences of intercountry adoptees

JaeRan Kim - Child Abuse & Neglect

This study sought to understand how intercountry adoptees with adoption discontinuity histories experience legal, relational, and residential permanency losses through the framework of ambiguous loss and trauma.

Estimates and Projections of COVID-19 and Parental Death in the US

Rachel Kidman, Rachel Margolis, Emily Smith-Greenaway, et al - JAMA Pediatrics

The authors of this study estimated the expected number of affected children for each COVID-19 death (the parental bereavement multiplier) in the U.S., enabling tracking of parental bereavement as the pandemic evolves. This article shares the results of that study.

Independent Child Safeguarding Review Report

Keeping Children Safe

The Independent Child Safeguarding Review (ICSR) was commissioned by the International Senate of SOS Children’s Villages to find ways to address the complex topic of child safeguarding failures. The report sets out consolidated findings and recommendations from four country reviews with the aim of contributing to improvements in safeguarding practice.

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Report on National Assessment of Centres caring for Children with Disabilities in Rwanda

National Council of Persons with Disabilities, National Commission for Children, UNICEF

The purpose of this assessment was to review service delivery in centres for children with disabilities in Rwanda. This report establishes relevant baseline information on institutional capacity including services offered, staffing levels and other parameters regarding care of children with disabilities.

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2021 Kids Count Data Book

Annie E. Casey Foundation

The 32nd edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book describes how children across the United States were faring before — and during — the coronavirus pandemic.

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Caring in the time of COVID-19: Gender, unpaid care work and social protection

Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian - UNICEF

This blog post by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed and Ramya Subrahmanian of the UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti calls attention to the risks faced by women and girls in light of the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts of the pandemic on women and girls' unpaid care work.

Where do rich countries stand on childcare?

Anna Gromada and Dominic Richardson - UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti

This report published by UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti, ranks countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU) based on their national childcare and parental leave policies.

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The State of the World’s Fathers 2021

Gary Barker, Aapta Garg, Brian Heilman, Nikki van der Gaag, and Rachel Mehaffey - Promundo-US

The State of the World’s Fathers 2021 report – the fourth in the series – presents research on care work during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on structural barriers that prevent equitable distribution of caregiving between women and men.

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Making the case for monitoring and reporting on EU-wide progress in deinstitutionalisation and reform of child protection systems: Interim findings & recommendations from the DataCare Project

Eurochild

The DataCare Project seeks to map how EU Member States and the UK currently collect data on the situation of children in alternative care. This report presents the interim findings of this project, based on the analysis of 14 countries who participated in the study at the end of 2020.

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