Mapping Child Protection Systems in Place for Palestinian Refugee Children in the Middle East

Manara Network for Child Rights, Save the Children Sweden, Defence for Children International - Palestine Section, Developmental Action Without Borders

This report aims at describing and analysing existing protection mechanisms available for Palestinian refugee children with a focus on Lebanon and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

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Outcomes for Children from Household Economic Strengthening Interventions - A Research Synthesis

Josh Chaffin & Cali Mortenson Ellis - Women’s Refugee Commission, CPC Learning Network, Save the Children

This review focuses on the findings from high-quality published evaluation research into economic strengthening (ES) programs, implemented by NGOs, in resource-poor environments in the developing world, where external evaluators measured impacts on any of a wide variety of indicators of children’s or youth’s protection and wellbeing.

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Evaluations of outcomes for children and youth from NGO-supported microeconomic interventions: a research synthesis

C.M. Ellis and Josh Chaffin - Enterprise Development and Microfinance: An international journal

This review is a systematic research synthesis of randomized impact evaluations of NGO-implemented interventions in low-income countries that work to build income and/or economic assets either of the caregiver, the household, or the individual child, adolescent, or youth, where the evaluation looked at any child-level or youth-level outcomes. 

Applying a Family-Level Economic Strengthening Intervention to Improve Education and Health-Related Outcomes of School-Going AIDS-Orphaned Children: Lessons from a Randomized Experiment in Southern Uganda.

Ssewamala FM, Karimli L, Torsten N, Wang JS, Han CK, Ilic V, Nabunya P. - PubMed

This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-level economic strengthening intervention with regard to school attendance, school grades, and self-esteem in AIDS-orphaned adolescents aged 12-16 years from 10 public rural primary schools in southern Uganda. 

Child Welfare: Steps Have Been Taken to Address Unregulated Custody Transfers of Adopted Children

United States Government Accountability Office

In this report, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined (1) the reasons adoptive families consider unregulated child custody transfers, and services that exist to support these families before they take such an action; (2) what is known about the prevalence of these transfers; and (3) actions selected states and federal agencies have taken to address such transfers. 

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Services de Renforcement Familial et de Prise en Charge Alternative en Afrique Subsaharienne: Document de Contexte

Child Frontiers

Ce document de contexte et les briefs nationaux individuels ont été commandés afin d'examiner le statut actuel des services de renforcement familial et de la prise en charge alternative dans dix-huit pays d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone ainsi que quatre pays anglophones et

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