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This article analyses the search strategies of first families in Bolivia contesting the separation of their children through transnational adoption. These first parents’ claims to visibility and acknowledgement have remained largely ignored by adoption policy and scholarship, historically privileging the perspectives of actors in adoptive countries, such as adoptive parents and adoption professionals.
Filling in this gap, the authors discuss the search strategies employed by first families in Bolivia who desire a reunion with their child. Drawing on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s feminist…
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The purpose of this review is to explore how UNICEF country offices have used Public Finance for Children (PF4C) analyses and interventions within child protection, with a view to learning lessons from their experiences.
As part of its mission to protect and enhance the rights for children, UNICEF works with partner governments to achieve the best possible use of public budgets. This includes the use of public financial analysis, capacity building and advocacy to ensure public funding is adequate, efficient, effective, equitable and transparent, commonly described as Public…
Individuals who have experienced living in alternative care settings have a critical role to play in the reform of child protection and alternative care systems. Engaging fully these children, young people, and adults in research and advocacy to inform policy and develop effective solutions requires more creative and flexible approaches to research methodology, with youth expertise, empowerment, and participation at the center.
Drawing from the learning from participatory research in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Australia, this webinar introduced different…
Child Identity Protection (CHIP) is pleased to announce the publication of the results of field research conducted by Anne-Marie Piché, Professor at the School of Social Work at the Université of Québec in Montréal (UQAM).
This research brought together the testimonies of adoption professionals (national and international) concerned with the situation of abandoned and placed children in five South American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the…
This project was coordinated by the Civil Association Doncel from Argentina, in representation of the Latin American Network of Care Leavers, in partnership with the University of Monterrey (UDEM) in Mexico, the organization Fazendo História from Brazil, Buckner from Perú, The Colombian Association of care leavers of the Child Protection System (ASCEP) from Colombia, and TIA Foundation from Bolivia. The project was supported by UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and Hope and Homes for Children.
The purpose of the research is to generate learning and recommendations…
Executive summary
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected children’s lives worldwide negatively affecting the enjoyment of fundamental rights such as education, health and nutrition. This exploratory research led by Kindernothilfe between May – July 2020 shows how the challenges facing working children and their families have been exacerbated since the outbreak and it presents their recommendations for effective and relevant responses to the pandemic.
In collaboration with six child-focused NGO partners from Bolivia (PASOCAP), Guatemala (CEIPA), Indonesia (PKPA), Kenya (WCY),…
La investigación que aquí se presenta tuvo por objetivo construir información sobre las principales políticas, medidas y acciones que se desarrollan a nivel regional orientadas a acompañar el egreso de adolescentes y jóvenes del sistema de cuidados alternativos e indagar respecto de su eficacia, efectividad, sostenibilidad y adecuación a un enfoque de derechos en Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia,…
DONCEL coordinó una investigación de la Red Latinoamericana de Egresados de Protección que estudió cómo se dan los egresos de las y los adolescentes que crecieron bajo el sistema de protección del Estado, lejos de sus familias por haber sufrido abusos, maltratos y violencia. La investigación se realizó en: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, México y Perú. Este video describe brevemente la investigación. Lee el informe…
El presente informe reúne los hallazgos principales de una investigación de carácter exploratorio-descriptivo que ha sido desarrollada en seis países de la región (Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, México y Perú). El objetivo fue documentar y analizar las políticas, estrategias y acciones desarrolladas para promover y acompañar la transición de adolescentes desde el sistema de cuidados alternativos hacia la vida autónoma, con el propósito de generar aprendizajes y recomendaciones para el desarrollo de políticas públicas que contribuyan a una reforma de los sistemas de protección en clave…
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the sixteenth session (15 Aug 2016 – 2 Sep 2016) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.