A shared vision for systemic child protection: Advocating, developing, evidencing, and partnering to build a child protection system: Lessons learned from Albania, Terre des hommes Mission in Albania Institutional Learning Process

A shared vision for systemic child protection: Advocating, developing, evidencing, and partnering to build a child protection system: Lessons learned from Albania, Terre des hommes Mission in Albania Institutional Learning Process
Dr. Rachel A Harris & Dr. Ian Milligan

This document reports on an Institutional Learning Process that has critically analysed the impact and effectiveness of Terre des hommes’ (Tdh) engagement in Albania over the last 14 years. It looks at the role Tdh has played in the emergence of a State Child Protection System (CPS) in Albania. 

Ending legalised violence against children: Global progress to December 2015

Ending legalised violence against children: Global progress to December 2015
Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children & Save the Children Sweden

The report discusses progress made towards universal prohibition of corporal punishment of children, including by highlighting examples from individual states that have recently implemented legal and policy reforms. The report also considers prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment in the context of the new Sustainable Development Goals, and discusses initiatives by religious leaders and members of faith-based communities and organisations that are increasingly taking action towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment. Lastly, the report discusses the latest research relating to corporal punishment.

Toolkit on the Use of European Union Funds for the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care

Toolkit on the Use of European Union Funds for the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care
European Expert Group on the Transition from Institutional to Community-based Care

The purpose of the toolkit is to assist all public authorities in Europe involved in the programming and implementation of EU Structural Funds (and other relevant funds) to make decisions which will help to improve the lives of more than a million European citizens currently living in institutional care. The toolkit aims to explain how EU funds can support national, regional and local authorities in designing and implementing structural reforms to develop quality family-based and community-based alternatives. The toolkit explicitly deals with the European Social Fund (ESF) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), but it aims to apply also to the programming and implementation of the European Agricultural and Rural Development Fund (EARDF) and the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA). 

Researching the linkages between social protection and children’s care in Ghana: LEAP and its effects on child well-being, care and family cohesion

Researching the linkages between social protection and children’s care in Ghana: LEAP and its effects on child well-being, care and family cohesion
Family for Every Child and the Centre for Social Protection

This report was written by Keetie Roelen and Helen Karki Chettri from the Centre for Social Protection (CSP) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), with inputs and support from Family for Every Child and Challenging Heights, Ghana. The report investigates the links between child wellbeing, children’s care, family cohesion and the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP), a national social protection scheme in Ghana which aims to reduce extreme poverty in the country and is centred on providing cash transfers to the most vulnerable.

Fact Sheet on Child Abandonment Research in South Africa

Fact Sheet on Child Abandonment Research in South Africa
Dee Blackie, National Adoption Coalition South Africa

This fact sheet summarizes a qualitative research study conducted by the National Adoption Coalition South Africa (NACSA) that explored child abandonment and adoption in the context of African ancestral beliefs in urban South Africa. The goal of this one-year study was to better understand the growing practice of child abandonment and declining adoption rates in South Africa.

For the Benefit of Children Alone? A Discourse Analysis of Policymaking Relating to Children's Institutions in Indonesia, 1999-2009

For the Benefit of Children Alone? A Discourse Analysis of Policymaking Relating to Children's Institutions in Indonesia, 1999-2009
Brian Babington

This thesis by Brian Babington, submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University, uses a discourse analysis methodology to shed light on deinstitutionalisation policymaking in Indonesia. In examining the factors that led Indonesia to adopt a policy to reduce reliance on the panti asuhan type of children's institution, the dissertation reveals that Indonesia appears to have adopted this policy change not primarily as a result of concern for children's rights, but rather because of political, economic, cultural, and religious factors. It also explores how the policy shift attempted to appease both pro-reform and pro-panti asuhan groups. 

Opening Doors for Europe's Children: Mapping institutional and residential care for children in Greece

Opening Doors for Europe's Children: Mapping institutional and residential care for children in Greece
Hope & Homes for Children and EuroChild

To better understand the situation of children in institutional care in Greece, Roots Research Centre, the national coordinator of Opening Doors for Europe's Children, conducted the first nation-wide mapping of institutional and residential care in Greece. The study revealed "a patchwork" of public and private institutions and residential care facilities with little or no oversight of quality and no monitoring of the numbers of children and what happens to them. 

Report of the Expert Group Meeting on "Family Policy Development: Achievements and Challenges”

Report of the Expert Group Meeting on "Family Policy Development: Achievements and Challenges”
Expert Group Meeting, United Nations, Department for Economic and Social Affairs

The United Nations, Department for Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Social Policy and Development released the Final Report of the Expert Group Meeting (EGM) on "Family Policy Development: Achievements and Challenges” which was produced after the 14-15 May 2015 EGM. The meeting focused on changing families, family law reforms, violence in the family and their impact on family policy development.