This presentation from the Zambia Rising project, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, highlights the two key challenges facing Zambia’s social work workforce that Zambian delegates have identified and outlines strategies for social workforce strengthening based on an HR assessment and gap analysis.

In this piece for the Huffington Post Blog, Phil Smith, an adoptive father, writes about his and his wife’s experience with a program Concurrent Planning, run by a specialist team in London, UK. 

The annual Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit gathers more than 2,500 advocates, practitioners, and leaders focused on adoption, foster care, and international OVC care.

This post is part of Better Volunteering Better Care’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. The post serves as a follow up to her research on “responsible” tourism companies.

This post is part of the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative’s month-long spread of articles aimed at raising awareness around the issues of orphanage volunteering. In this blog post, Anna McKeon from the Better Volunteering Better Care Initiative, writes about her time as an inexperienced international volunteer in orphanages in Thailand and Kenya and shares the top five lessons she learned about volunteering and why it is harmful to volunteer in child care institutions.

This presentation from the Department of Social Welfare, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, describes the Zambia Law Development Commission and its work, discusses the need to integrate social protection with child protection to meet the needs of vulnerable children and families in Zambia.

This document includes the opening remarks given on the first day of the National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform in Zambia by Dr. Davy Chikamata, the Permanent Secretary of Community Development and Social Welfare, to the participants of the consultation.

This presentation from the Zambia Law Development Commission, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, describes the Zambia Law Development Commission and its work, provides an overview of the legal framework supporting child care in Zambia, and highlights potential or pending legislation related to children’s care.

This presentation from Nicholas Banda, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, outlines Zambia’s vision for child policy, covering child survival rights, child development rights, child protection rights, monitoring and evaluation, and  institutional framework and implementation.

This presentation from GHR Foundation, given at the Zambia National Consultation to Accelerate Care Reform, presents GHR’s approach to reforming child care systems, the multiple aspects of the care system engaged, and its underlying theory of collective impact.