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Poverty, conflict, and other risk factors in Afghanistan contribute to a situation where many families are vulnerable to breakdown. There is a systemic lack of support, diversion, and alternative care services available for these families. Where parents are unable to provide for their children, residential care is the only recourse.
The Department of Orphanages is responsible for the administration of orphanages at the national level and is situated in the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Martyrs, and Disabled (MOLSAMD). MOLSAMD sources suggest that there are between six and eleven…
Over the course of the week the consultation examined just about every aspect of child care reform in South Eastern Europe with a view to reaching a consensus about a way forward.
It was a motivating and energizing experience. It was clear Governments in this region have thrown off the shackles of the past, and are embracing world’s best practice for their social welfare systems. As they say we have come a long way in a few short years.
On this site you can access the consultation’s…
Last year, UNICEF and the British non-governmental organization EveryChild set up a partnership to help the government find homes for what they call ‘social orphans’ – children living in orphanages who still have one or more parents.
UNICEF’s Representative in Georgia, Giovanna Barberis, says the organization has been pressing for institutional reform for many years and has made great headway at the policy level.
“We wanted to prove to the government that there were socially better environments for children, which were not more expensive than the institutional system,” says Ms. Barberis…
On 29 March 2006, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, signed the State Program on De-Institutionalisation and Alternative Care Services. This program comes at a time when Azerbaijan’s economy is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and many other related reforms are under-way. There simply is no excuse today to keep children in institutionalized care when alternatives can be developed and families supported through improved wealth re-distribution systems.
The main goal of the Program is ‘to provide the formation and effective operation of the mechanisms of placing…
There are an estimated 7000 childcare institutions across Indonesia caring for up to half a million children. The Indonesian government itself owns and runs only a handful of those institutions, less than 40. The vast majority of these institutions were set up privately, particularly by faith based organisations. While many receive some financial support from the government, most do not come under any type of supervision or monitoring. In fact, the government does not have any data about institutions that do not receive its financial subsidy and it only has very limited data on those that do…
Largely as a result of being cut off from the protection and care of their families, communities, and friends, children in institutions are increasingly vulnerable to HIV. In institutions, services to educate children on HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as appropriate treatments for children already infected, tend to be limited in scope and access. Many children are not even informed of their HIV status.
This assessment aims to map the vulnerability of children in three types of institutions, to identify critical needs, and to design practical, rapid, and easy-to-implement solutions that…
An outline of the processes involved in creating and maintaining a childcare organization, including creating a charter, protection of child rights, placement, care, health, education, reunification and monitoring.
This document includes practical and professional paperwork for residential care including registration and assessment forms, application for renewal of licenses, referral forms, and emergency admission forms. Can be modified for different country contexts. While these forms may prove useful to organizations and governments seeking to provide oversight to residential institutions, they are not comprehensive. The forms do not sufficiently emphasize the need to collect regular information regarding each child in the care system, or the need to review each child's case regularly, with the aim of…
In Georgia, the recently reformed child protection projects “Prevention of Infant Abandonment and De-institutionalisation” (PIAD) and “Family Support and Foster Care” (FS&FC) share a two-fold objective. On the one hand, they aim at preventing additional children from entering residential care, and at deinstitutionalizing children that are already there, by: (i) addressing the causes of child abandonment, and (ii) creating family-based alternatives to institutional care. On the other hand, they intend to provide a model to encourage the adoption of family and community-based child…
Data coverage
The 2006 version of the database contains 146 economic and social indicators divided into ten different topics. In some cases, absolute data are available in addition to calculated rates. Data generally covers the period 1989-2004/5.
Data sources
Most data are collected directly from national statistical offices using a standardized template. Additional data are also obtained from other international organizations or are calculated by UNICEF IRC. Data may therefore not correspond to those in other UNICEF publications.
Data…