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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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care: The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children

The Next Generation MDRC Policy Brief

Analyzing rich data from in-depth ethnographic interviews conducted in Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia, Next Generation researchers documented the challenges that low-income families face as they patch together a variety of arrangements to meet their child care needs.

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The contribution of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to understanding and promoting the interests of young people making the transition from care to adulthood

Emily R. Munro, John Pinkerton, Philip Mendes, Georgia Hyde-Dryden, Maria Herczog, Rami Benbenishty - Children and Youth Services Review

The paper explores how the UNCRC reporting process, and guidelines from the Committee outlining how States should promote the rights of young people making the transition from care to adulthood, can be used as an instrument to track global patterns of change in policy and practice. 

From comparative to global social policy: Lessons for development practitioners from UNICEF's Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities

Gáspár Fajth, Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir, Sharmila Kurukulasuriya - Children and Youth Services Review

This paper attempts to look at the responsiveness of global social policy to addressing multidimensional child poverty, through the experience of UNICEF's Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities.