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This report presents the key findings of a scoping study on the links between education and children’s care. The study involved a literature review in English, French and Spanish; key informant interviews; and consultations with 170 children, carers, teachers and other stakeholders in Guyana, India, Russia and Rwanda.
The evidence presented in this report suggests that a lack of access to quality education is a key cause of inadequate care. Children who are pressured or forced away from families and into exploitative work, early marriage or life on the streets are a greater risk of…
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The social service workforce is increasingly being recognized as essential to meeting the needs of vulnerable populations throughout the world. This report assesses the evolution of the social service workforce over the past five years by examining efforts to strengthen and diversify the workforce in eight countries. These countries all participated in a Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference in Cape Town in 2010.
The conference aimed to support country teams in developing plans to strengthen their national social service workforces. Since 2010, significant…
On June 29, 2015, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar featuring Dr. Sarah Meyer, Associate Director of Research at the AfriChild Centre of Excellence for the Study of the African Child, and Gita Swamy Meier-Ewert, Senior Planning and Monitoring Specialist at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This webinar focused on the experience of developing, piloting and refining a child protection index, designed to assess the strength of the child protection system in humanitarian settings.
The Better Care Network (BCN) and UNICEF, supported by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)/ US Agency for International Development (USAID), commissioned Maestral International LLC to document significant child-care reform work being carried out at country level in three African countries, to promote information exchange and learning within the region, and reinforce and encourage care reform in other countries. These reforms involve legislation, policies and programmes, including service delivery, advocacy and networking. The three countries reviewed for the country…
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) supported a sub-regional workshop held in Kigali March 23-26, 2015 to provide structured opportunities for technical exchange on care reform, approaches, methods, and tools. The workshop was designed to provide opportunities for exchange and to develop connections among personnel of the five care reform projects of USAID/DCOF in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda, as well as representatives of the three governments. It was planned with the active involvement of a Steering Committee…
As part of the work of the BCN Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Initiative, the National Commission for Children in partnership with BCN, and Save the Children convened a national consultative workshop in Kigali, Rwanda on 26 and 27 November 2014. The workshop sought to jointly identify knowledge, awareness and technical gaps which may be hindering children’s care reform and to identify national priorities for action. The main focus area of family strengthening and alternative care was addressed through the framework of the three core strategies of BCN’s regional work:
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This overview document provides a brief update on child care reform in Rwanda. It includes a background of the recent history of care reform in Rwanda as well as the overall goals and strategic objectives of care reform.
The document also lists achievements made thus far, challenges faced in the reform movement, and lessons learned and highlights ways forward for Rwandan care reform.
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This participatory baseline is part of a multi-country study commissioned by Save the Children targeting selected areas of Rwanda, Ethiopia and North-Sudan. The purpose of the multi-country study is to address the UN Study on Violence Against Children’s recommendations and assess the role of communities in ensuring that children are protected from violence and abuse at all levels.
The Rwanda study was conducted from March 29th to April 30th 2010 in 6 Sectors (Rubaya, Byumba, Mutete, Mageragere, Nyamirambo, Kacyiru) in 3 Districts of Rwanda (Gicumbi, Nyrugenge and…
This working paper, produced by the Better Care Network and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, explores the topic of social service workforce strengthening as it relates to child care reform. It is intended to be a useful resource for reform efforts and a practical and accessible overview for use by policy-makers, practitioners, and service providers in contexts that are either considering the implications of care reforms for their social service workforce or are already engaged in a process and are searching for strategies to align and increase the effectiveness of the workforce…