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This UNICEF ESARO webinar explores the role of case management in care reform and examines strategies for effective case management from Kenya, Ghana and Uganda. Speakers address case conferencing, integrated case management, caseloads, and monitoring case management.
While CTWWC has focused on systems change since the beginning, it was not always underpinned by a conceptual framework. Even without applying the scaling conceptual framework developed, CTWWC has found that focusing on systems strengthening alone has helped drive scale-up.
The examples in this Insights Learning Brief describe how systems strengthening alone can lead to scaling of interventions, including interventions that already exist. CTWWC believes that strengthen systems are essential to scaling and doing so, while aligning the vision and interventions across a coalition of actors,…
This learning brief was developed as part of the CTWWC 2021 annual report and shares learning from several contexts and is intended to share learning on how family strengthening, reunification, case management and workforce strengthening can be integrated in care reform.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national systems of care for children, strengthening families, family reunification and preventing child-family separation, which can have harmful, long-term…
The Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Learning Platform hosted a webinar on September 20, 2022, with panel of experts who explored how the social service workforce can be strengthened to support care reform in Eastern and Southern Africa.
The importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems into mainstream social work and ensuring context-specific, culturally relevant practice has long been emphasised in Africa and the Global South. This book, based on empirical research, presents a selection of indigenous and innovative models and approaches of problem solving that will inspire social work practice and education. At the core of these models lies a conceptual understanding of the community as the overarching principle for effective social work and social development in African contexts. The empirical part of the book has…
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The large burden of mental health disorders among young people worldwide calls for scalable prevention and treatment models that reach children and families in low-resource settings. This paper describes the development of an evidence-informed family therapy intervention designed for lay counselor delivery in low-resource settings and presents findings on the feasibility and acceptability of implementation in Kenya. Qualitative data guided the development of a components-based family therapy that integrates multiple strategies from solution-focused and systems-based therapies, as…
This report is a first step in a larger collaboration between the FrameWorks Institute, UNICEF, the Harvard Center on the Developing Child and the Africa Early Childhood Network, with funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The collaboration aims to develop communications strategies and tools that can translate the neuroscience of early childhood development (ECD). The immediate goal is to help members of the public and those who work and make decisions in the ECD sector – first in Kenya and eventually in East Africa more broadly – better understand the importance of children’s early…
In this case study, Coordinating Comprehensive Care of Children (4Children) documents and evaluates the work of COGRI’s Lea Toto program and the FHI360 led APHIAplus program in Kenya. The case study is one of three case studies developed by 4Children at the request of the Office of HIV and AIDS at USAID to share and promote learning from OVC programs which have implemented successful interventions to increase HIV testing and services (HTS) for children.
This case study includes a background on Kenya and the context of the country's health and social welfare services, a…
The 21-22 June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation on Violence against Children (VAC) in All Care Settings was the second in a series of regional consultations focused on engaging experts within the region to collaborate, share learning, and formulate a set of regional recommendations for key actors to effectively address violence against children within all care settings,…
The Child Protection System Guidelines were developed to address the fragmented response to child protection in Kenya and guide actors at the county level to deliver more coordinated and professional services for children and their families.
The Guidelines are split into five sections:
- The Roles and Responsibilities of Actors in Child Protection
- Child Protection Services
- Standards of Operation in Provision of Child Protection Services
- Coordination of Child Protection Actors and Actions
- Implementation Checklist for the…