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This document provides practical guidance to actors in humanitarian and development contexts on the adaptations and considerations needed to support children who are either currently in alternative care or are going into an alternative care placement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
It expands on the guidance provided in the Interagency Technical…
This document provides interim guidance for child protection and health actors in the context of quarantine and isolation measures to mitigate related child protection risks, minimize family separation, and promote family unity and social cohesion. Actions will require multi-sector collaboration and contextualization, taking into account national laws and guidelines related to child protection and health, and the public health measures for COVID-19 control that are in place in the country.
It contains recommendations to prevent family separation and preserve family unity, underlining that…
تشير الأدلة التي تكونت لدينا من تفشي الأمراض المعدية السابقة إلى أن مخاطر حماية في المجتمعات تتفاقم بعد تفشي الأوبئة، كما تظهر مخاطر جديدة ًالطفل الموجودة سابقاعلى الأطفال نتيجة للوباء ذاته، وكذلك نتيجة للآثار الاجتماعية والاقتصادية لتدابير الوقاية منه والسيطرة عليه. إذ يتعرض بعض الأطفال لخطر متزايد في هذه الظروف، خاصة أولئك الذين لا يتمتعون برعاية والدية أو أسرية، والأطفال المعرضين لخطر الانفصال عن أسرهم، من ًوالأطفال الذين يعيشون ضمن تدابير الرعاية البديلة، وأولئك الذين تخرجوا حديثاالرعاية البديلة. تهدف هذه المذكرة التقنية إلى دعم أخصائيي حماية الطفل الممارسين والمسؤولين الحكوميين في…
This Album on Kinship Care is a compilation of the works of Syrian refugee children in kinship care and their adult caregivers who took part in the participatory action research undertaken by Save the Children and the Information and Research Center – King Hussein Foundation in Jordan in 2014 in the Zaatari Camp and in the city of Amman.
Children actively participated in the data collection, analysis, and recommendations on the lives of Syrian refugee children living in kinship care in Jordan – the positive and negative aspects of living with kin caregivers and the factors and practices…
The aim of this paper is to define social and psychological problems faced by children of unknown parentage in foster families in the governorate of Muscat, Oman.
The Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children were endorsed by the United Nations General Assembly on 20th November 2009, in connection with the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This momentous day marked a culmination of years of discussions and negotiations led by the Government of Brazil, in partnership with Group of Friends and civil society. The Guidelines were designed to provide further guidance regarding the definition of the relationship between parental care and the child’s family environment, goals for alternative care, and…