… recommendations for national foster care standards—which could be po­tentially replicable across West Africa. … recommendations for national foster care standards—which could be po- tentially replicable across West Africa. … children’s well-being in fostering situations? How could standards be used as a tool to educate Sierra Leoneans …

… groups that lead the national work on child protection and could help to contextualise and guide the research. In many … in the entire country were severe, and how the approach could be adapted to the Sierra Leone context. A significant … for policy and practice, and suggested how the MSWGCA could help to support it at both district and national …

… to reunify children earlier if possible. Before that work could gain traction, an Ebola outbreak caused a two-year halt … reintegration of the remaining residential children that could be accomplished within 12-18 months without sacrificing … revealed that 98% of them had had a living relative who could care for them with adequate support. This post-mortem …

… were left behind during the war and killed because they could not be carried) and were not mentioned in the other … in the treat- ment of children with disabilities could be attributed to the greater participation of children … initiatives across Guinea, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Togo, could include: (i) Increasing awareness of existing legis- …

… positive and negative experiences, so that recommendations could be identified to better support families caring for … local resources (people, groups, institutions) that could be mobilized to support children living in kinship … partners to initially understand the tools so that they could be clearly introduced to the children, especially if …

… the lack of data availability, the HIV status of children could not be accounted for in the analysis, and this may be a … them to households were missing, and thus these data could not be included in this analysis. Children (0–4 years) … not measured in Haiti’s 2005–2006 DHS, and therefore Haiti could not be included in the pooled analysis for this outcome …

… members consulted during the research for this analysis could not describe a formal system service to which they … to develop an information management system that could inform national strategies; among them is a single … not currently envisioned as such, these initiatives could constitute a good entry point to develop a broader …

… older man who gave her favors. In some cases, the families could not settle the matter themselves and took it to the … Many children did not attend school because their parents could not afford to pay school fees and other school related … were not present in their villages. People also said they could not afford to take time away from their farming and …

… Finally, I assumed the sampled population for this study could express personal impressions, feelings, and experiences … part, to associated charges and surcharges that families could not afford (Briand et al., 2014; Nishimuko, 2009). The … of data (Ross, 2017). Reliving traumatic experiencing could trigger the use of professional counseling service, as …

… curtailed the access mission teams and other outsiders could have with the children in the orphanage. In the spring … years. Ministry officials, knowing that the government could not provide much support either materially or … identifying the various stakeholders who they knew they could get on board, and those they feared might resist or …