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This Manual sets the minimum standards and policies for the protection and care of UASC within a foster care arrangement. The Manual is based on the premise that children who are displaced from their home countries and separated from their families deserve the best alternative care in the country in which they are residing. The proposed minimum standards and policies aim to ensure that UASC are safe, protected, and have access to resources to support their development and promote their well-being.
Although the Manual may be specific to Malaysia, it complies with the principles and…
This Note provides background and technical information on social protection in Cambodia to inform the development of a national social protection strategy for the poor and vulnerable by the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD). This document is the outcome of over a year-long consultation process in which CARD, in collaboration with the Interim Working Group on Social Safety Nets under the Technical Working Group on Food Security and Nutrition (TWG FSN), convened several technical consultations and meetings and produced policy notes discussing selected aspects of a social…
Executive Summary
In 2013, UNICEF underwent a significant reorientation of its Child Protection Programme in response to an extensive mid-term review (MTR) and changes in the political and social context of Myanmar. The opening of the country in 2012 and the significant push for reform by the Government created the space for UNICEF to shift the focus of its Child Protection Programme to target a systems building strategy and approach, to best address the multiple challenges hindering the provision of protection for children.
With this backdrop, in August 2013, UNICEF…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
ABSTRACT
This article examines the discoursal shift to “reintegration” within trafficking protection programmes and policy, with emphasis upon Cambodia. The evidence indicates that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are progressively making “reintegration” their primary protective objective. Yet a lack of conceptual clarity prevails and is being exacerbated by models and forms of guidance which position NGOs as directly undertaking or providing for the achievement of reintegration. This article argues that NGOs and their practitioners cannot “reintegrate” anyone – at least not in any…
Foreword
The purpose of this book is to primarily to introduce the PDAK – Pusat Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (Child and Family Support Centre). The PDAK was conceived predicated upon the concept of providing a direct response to children and families experiencing challenges in care and protection. The interventions conducted by the PDAK seek to identify solutions other than the traditional approach of placing children in institutions. The PDAK is one of the strategies adopted by Yayasan Sayangi Tunas Cilik - Partner of Save the Children and the Ministry of Social Affairs in…
This chapter explores issues of children’s agency and participation in anti-trafficking interventions with children trafficked for exploitative labor in Vietnam. In particular, the chapter focuses on the ways children leave labor trafficking situations through outside interventions in the form of rescue and its associated rehabilitation and reintegration programs offered to rescue victims.
The findings of this study reveal that the specificities of the local context, the counter-trafficking actors involved, and the sector in which trafficking takes place are all important to consider in…
This booklet is based on a recent internal desk review of Save the Children’s and partners’ work against physical and humiliating punishment of children, commissioned by Save the Children Sweden. It aims to present best practices, to show what methods have worked around the world, and to spread knowledge about results achieved and lessons learned when it comes to law reform and positive discipline. The booklet states first and foremost that children have the absolute right to be safe from violence as stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Violence does not have a…
President Aquino of the Philippines has recently signed into law the “Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act,” an Act which ensures the protection of children “in times of calamity, disaster, and other emergency situations.” The law lays out a strategic plan of action for government to respond to the needs of children during emergencies. The Act includes provisions on establishing shelters for displaced children, promoting children’s rights, and addressing the needs of unaccompanied or separated children, including immediate care, tracing of relatives, and family reunification.
This document serves as a brief of the UNICEF Child Protection Programme provided in Cambodia. The document states that one-in-two children have received physical abuse, one in four children in Cambodia have received emotional abuse, and 1-in-20 girls and boys have been sexually abused.
The document further states that residential care has almost doubled from around 6,000 in 2005 to over 11,000 in 2014. The problem of violence against women and children is embedded within the culture and changing these behavior patterns can be a challenge.
According to this document, UNICEF works…