Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care: Appendices

Lisa Moran, Caroline McGregor and Carmel Devaney - UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway

This document includes the appendices for the Outcomes for Permanence and Stability for Children in Long-term Care study, which privides a complete picture of the study's research methods and quantitative data collected. 

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Towards a Partnership for the Quality Improvement in the Care of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Africa:A Review of Lessons Learned and Best Practices

Dorcas Amolo, Lori DiPrete Brown, Samantha Dovey, Lynne Miller Franco, and Marie-Eve Hammink - USAID Health Care Improvement Project

The purpose of this review document is to inform the development of an African Partnership for quality in the care of orphans and vulnerable children. By reviewing experiences to date in similar efforts, this review identifies best practices and challenges that may inform the development of a regional partnership focusing on quality.

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An Ethnographic Study of Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms and their Linkages with the National Child Protection System of Sierra Leone

Inter-agency Learning Initiative on Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms and Child Protection Systems

The objectives of this study, which was conducted from January-April 2011 in Sierra Leone, were: to learn about local beliefs and values concerning children, childhood and harms to children; to explore the actions that communities take and the mechanisms that they use for children’s protection; and to understand if and how these actions and mechanisms are linked to the government-led child protection system.

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The Bujumbura Declaration on Child Rights and Wellbeing in the East African Community

East African Community (EAC)

This Declaration on Child Rights and Wellbeing was adopted by the Partner States of the East African Community (EAC) in Bujumbura on 3rd September 2012 during the First EAC Child Rights Conference under the theme, “Addressing the issues that negatively impact on the realisation of child rights in the EAC.”

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The Status of the Child Protection System in Uganda

Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development; UNICEF

This mapping process was commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in order to facilitate the transitioning of Uganda’s approach to child protection from a disjointed, issue-based and project-oriented approach to a more system-oriented approach in order to respond effectively to the multi-dimensional and complex child protection needs of all children in the country.

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Community-Based Child Protection Mechanisms in Refugee Camps in Rwanda: An Ethnographic Study

Imogen Prickett, Israel Moya, Liberata Muhorakeye, Mark Canavera and Dr. Lindsay Stark - CPC Learning Network, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, HealthNet TPO, TPO Uganda, Avsi, U.S. State Department

The purpose of this research is to learn about community-based child protection processes and mechanisms in two refugee camps in Rwanda – Gihembe and Kiziba.

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