On October 23, 2025, the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative hosted a webinar exploring Kafaalah—a long-standing childcare practice in Muslim communities that has been observed for more than 1,400 years.
Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) is a global initiative which promotes safe, nurturing family care for children. Since 2018, the focus has been on the reform of national systems of care for children, grounded in demonstration country work in Guatemala, India, Kenya and Moldova.
Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) is a global initiative which promotes safe, nurturing family care for children. Since 2018, the focus has been on the reform of national systems of care for children, grounded in demonstration country work in Guatemala, India, Kenya and Moldova.
In September 2025, we begin a new edition of the Mutual Learning Program (the seventh already!). A six-month global journey of co-creation and reflection on family- and community-based care.
In this video, practitioners, faith leaders, and a Kafaalah caregiver share experiences in promoting and strengthening Kafaalah as an important part of family-based alternative care in Kenya.
The second WHO and UNICEF-facilitated Digital Dialogue, following the 2024 Global Ministerial Conference, convened over 400 participants to explore how care reform can help prevent violence against children. Co-hosted by Better Care Network, Lumos, UNICEF, and WHO, the session highlighted country experiences, regional efforts, and the urgent need for integrated, family-based solutions to end institutional violence and protect every child.
This video explores efforts to enable children with disabilities in Rwanda to grow up in safe and caring families using an integrated approach which saw collaboration between the child protection, health, education and social protection sectors.
This video describes lessons learnt from the use of supervised independent living in Uganda for adolescents and young adult care leavers.
Vlad is a 13-year-old child rights advocate in the Republic of Moldova. Speaking at a United Nations Human Rights Council's debate on the rights of the child on 13 March 2025, he stressed the importance of investing in early childhood development. "The earlier we act, the more chances we give the child to develop harmoniously," he said.
This advocacy brief and video are underpinned by research confirming the high costs of violence against children to society, and the significant returns that could accrue from investments made in interventions to prevent and respond to violence against children. The research highlights the need for a paradigm shift, from viewing expenditure on the protection of children from violence as a cost to viewing it as an investment.