Despite its importance to the poorest in society, the social welfare sector in Malawi has not been performing well. Recognising this, the Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Development (MoGCCD) requested support from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID), who have taken a new approach: supporting the Government of Malawi (GoM) to build a better social welfare system starting at the top, within the Ministry. 

This study investigated the efficacy of a pilot project of Parenting with Love and Limits® (PLL), a community-based and family-focused approach to treating juvenile offenders.

This independent review into Queensland's youth detention centres examined the practices, operation and oversight of the state's two youth detention centres in Townsville and Brisbane, in addition to evaluating the effectiveness of programs and services delivered in Queensland's youth detention centres.

The Trafficking in Persons Report is an annual publication of the U.S. Department of State, providing a snapshot of human trafficking around the world with attention to key issues, trends, standards, and updates.

This presentation describes the mapping of the child protection system in Eastern and Southern Africa.

The purpose of the toolkit is to help UNICEF country teams and their partners to enhance the overall child protection dialogue and programming, with a particular focus on developing system capacity.

This research project aimed to contribute to knowledge development in understanding how the social development approach is actually being used by individual schools of social work in Southern and East Africa, and how this approach is impacting social work training, through primary empirical research.

This mapping and assessment reviews the framework for the child protection system in Timor-Leste, to consider whether the blueprint is designed with a clear vision and if the system is implementable and sustainable. 

This presentation describes research undertaken in Sierra Leone by an inter-agency group to map the child protection system in the country, including the community-based child protection mechanisms (CBCPMs) in place.

This document, released by the Supreme Court of India on 5 May 2017, outlines decisions taken by the Court in regards to child care institutions in India.