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This “roadmap” document outlines the recommended implementation strategies and activities for strengthening family- and community-based alternative care in Liberia. It accompanies the Guidelines on Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living (the Guidelines) and the Capacity Building Plan to Implement the Guidelines (CBP). The roadmap serves as a resource tool for the Government of Liberia, and its partners, for the protection of children without appropriate care through the development of alternative care, deinstitutionalization and other support services.…
The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) in Ghana manages the activities of Residential Homes for Children (RHCs) to ensure that orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana are protected and cared for when they are placed in institutions. In recent years, the number of orphanages in Ghana has increased, as have reports of abuse, molestation, and neglect in these residential homes and many orphanages in the country are alleged to be operating below the basic standards set by the DSW.
This study, therefore, was conducted to determine whether the regulation of the operations of RHCs under the DSW…
This report - produced by SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, and the University of Malawi - is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It considers common challenges to implementing the Guidelines identified in the eight countries and provides a platform for effective advocacy to promote every child’s right to quality care. At the end of each chapter, the report provides…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination during the sixty-third session (27 May-14 June 2013) of Guinea Bissau’s second through fourth periodic reports to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
Representatives from International Social Service, Save the Children, and SOS Children’s Villages met with the African Committee on Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child during its 21st session on 15 April, 2013 to present on the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (UNGA resolution A/RES/64/142) and its new implementation Handbook “Moving Forward.” The presentation included a brief introduction to the Guidelines; an overview of the core principles of the Guidelines; a description of the need for, and development of, the handbook; a summary of the handbook…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the initial report of Burkina Faso under the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography at its sixty-second session (14 January-1 February 2013).
There is a growing interest in applying the systems approach to strengthening child protection efforts. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the systems approach shifts attention to a larger systemic framework that includes legal and policy contexts, institutional capacity, community contexts, planning, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation subsystems. This paper is a response to the increasing need for agreement on approaches and documented evidence of good practices consistent with system strengthening work.
The purpose of the Inter-Agency Working Paper is to…
Guidelines developed to assure and improve the quality of services for the well being, protection and development of orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria. At the centre of the concept of quality are the needs of the orphan and vulnerable child, the family and community. The main purpose in developing the guidelines therefore, was to create an environment where all stakeholders support quality in the provision of care, support and protection to orphans and vulnerable children in compliance with agreed guidelines and standards of practice.
Following Ghana’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1990, the country also initiated steps towards law reforms as an attempt to affirm its moral and legal obligation towards the survival, development and protection of Ghanaian children. National laws were harmonized with the UNCRC beginning with the 1992 Constitution which saw the inclusion of Article 28. This article guarantees the rights and freedom for children. It is also similar in terms as the principles of the UNCRC, and was followed by the passage of the progressive Children’s Act,…
The Care Reform Initiative launched in 2006 to update and enforce the Regulations and Standards for the Operation of Residential Care Setting in Ghana is a joint venture between the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) and OrphanAid Africa. These Standards are part of a reform initiative programme that involves the provision of various forms of support by OrphanAid Africa and other partners; to enhance the capacity of DSW to encourage family based care. The aim of the programme is to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort, and that when it is used, these establishments comply…