The International Child and Youth Care Network (CYC-Net) is a registered non-profit and public benefit organisation in South Africa. Its main objectives are (primarily through the internet and electronic media) – “to promote and facilitate reading, learning, information sharing, discussion, networking, support and accountable practice amongst all who work with children, youth and families in difficulty.” CYC-Net aims to promote and facilitate reading, learning, information sharing, discussion, networking, support and accountable practice amongst all who work with children, youth and…

CSC is a global network that promotes street children’s rights through advocacy, research and network development.   

Established in 2010, the CP MERG is a global forum for collaboration, coordination and shared learning on child protection monitoring, evaluation and research. The CP MERG aims at strengthening the quality of monitoring and evaluation, research and data collection in child protection, through the development of standards, tools and recommendations. The Better Care Network is a core member of CP MERG.  

A Global Fatherhood Campaign. MenCare is a global fatherhood campaign active in more than 30 countries on five continents. MenCare's mission is to promote men’s involvement as equitable, nonviolent fathers and caregivers in order to achieve family well-being, gender equality, and better health for mothers, fathers, and children.  

The International HIV/AIDS Alliance is a global alliance of 40 organisations that work with communities on HIV, health and human rights initiatives, including support for orphans and vulnerable children. To contact, please fill out the contact form available here.  

Better Volunteering, Better Care was an interagency initiative, co-facilitated by Better Care Network and Save the Children UK, aimed at discouraging international volunteering in residential care centers and promoting ethical volunteering alternatives supporting children and families. In 2015, in response to strategy discussions that greater impact could be achieved if the coalition focused at a country level, BVBC members in Australia adapted…

BCN is acting as co-convener with SOS Villages International of the New York Working Group on Children without Parental Care of the NGO Committee on UNICEF. The main objective of the Working Group is to disseminate and promote the implementation of the Guidelines on Alternative Care of Children. The Working Group members are: BCN, SOS Villages International, International Movement ATD Fourth World, Family For Every Child, International Rescue Committee, Save the Children, UNICEF, Plan International and the Child Protection in Crisis Network (CPC). Meetings are held…

Making the transition from a residential care services to a non-residential service or program is a process that requires planned and coordinated change across all levels of the organization. This interactive transition diagram provides an overview of what transition entails, breaking it down into phases and stage that you can explore as you consider, plan or progress through a transition process.  To begin, locate your organization’s position along the transition path, tap on a signposted stage to explore its aims, key actions and processes, expected milestones and to access…

FHI 360’s Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) project supports integrated, multi-disciplinary, evidence-based, gender-sensitive programming to improve the economic security, health and wellbeing of vulnerable households and children.  Under an agreement with USAID’s Displaced Children and Orphans Fund, ASPIRES seeks to develop programming guidance for matching contextually appropriate economic interventions with specifically targeted households to assist in reintegrating separated children into families and preventing…