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Disability Rights International, as part of the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalisation (GC-DI), organized a series of thematic workshop on the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies.
Session 2 is entitled "Equal Rights, Diverse Needs: Protections for children and women with disabilities and other high-risk groups under the UN Guidelines on deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies".
The webinar took place on 30 April 2024 and focused on Chapter IV of the Guidelines: Deinstitutionalization grounded in the dignity and…
Disability Rights International, as part of the Global Coalition on Deinstitutionalisation (GC-DI), organized a series of thematic workshop on the UN Guidelines on Deinstitutionalization, including in emergencies.
Session #1 was held on 22 March 2024 and was an introduction to the GC-DI Thematic workshops on the Guidelines on Deinstitutionalisation.
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The transition of individual residential care services for children is a critical part of child protection and care systems reform. It is one of several critical measures required of governments to implement commitments made at the international level to phase out the institutionalization of children and reorientate the system towards family-based care.1 To support the scaling up of transitioning residential care services, and to ensure it is done in a manner that is safe, effective and puts children’s best interests first, certain factors need to be in place at the system level to create…
The Transitioning Residential Care Cost Estimation Tool was designed to help the funders and operators of Residential Care Facilities consider the cost implications of transition and generate cost estimates that could help the decision makers with their planning, and with securing a commitment to transition from key stakeholders.
This is one of three Transition Framework Tools that have been developed by BCN and the Transition Working Group to support RCI transitions and technical support providers.
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This mixed-methods systematic review asks what is known about children’s perspectives on contact with birth parents when in out-of-home care. To address this question 37 studies were coded to identify children’s experiences and thoughts regarding contact with their parents. Data synthesis was performed in three stages. The frequency of the identified factors across all included research was determined and qualitative and quantitative syntheses were performed.
The results reveal that children hold thoughts and views on several aspects of contact with their birth…
The first in the series of the 2023 ENIL-ECCL webinars focused on getting the message out about the importance of closing institutions. One of the key arguments for keeping institutions open is that “the society is not ready” for this change. In other words, that we cannot expect all disabled people to live independently in the community. This webinar looked at ways in which we can raise awareness among the general public on the right to independent living and the harm of institutionalisation for the entire society.
Children with disabilities are disproportionately represented in residential care facilities (RCF) across the globe, and they are too often the last to find home in family care. As awareness grows in communities around the world, more and more people are working to ensure children with disabilities are no longer left behind in care reform, especially in services and programs that aim to reunify children with families, place children in family-based alternative care and prevent separation. While reintegrating children with disabilities often takes longer and can be more resource intensive,…
Implementing the Legal Framework for the Prosecution of Orphanage Trafficking: A Cambodia Case Study
This study was conducted as a part of a multi-stage, multi-country project designed to enhance the identification, prosecution, and prevention of orphanage trafficking crimes. It was the second of four stages to be conducted in Cambodia as one of three jurisdictions included in the study.
This second stage of the study comprised socio-legal empirical research designed to examine the in-situ application of the legal framework for prosecuting orphanage trafficking in Cambodia. Specifically, the study sought to identify how cases, where orphanage trafficking and exploitation were indicated,…
This learning brief was developed as part of the CTWWC 2022 annual report and shares learning from across different contexts. It is intended to showcase how the transition of care services is happening and how it can be supported.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national systems of care for children, strengthening families, family reunification and preventing child-family separation, which can have harmful, long-term consequences, and development of alternative family-…