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This document is intended to provide concrete advice on how to put the guiding principles common to most child protection actors into practice. Though cultural traditions and customs may require the advice to be adapted to the specific context, the authors believe that the advice provided is grounded in sufficiently broad experience to guide measures that ensure children under five are not separated when this can be avoided, and, if separated, can be reunited with their families as quickly as possible.
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This research looked at the factors affecting the family reintegration of girls in the Tshangu district of Kinshasa, an operational zone of the local NGO OSEPER, a partner of War Child for a 3-year project, seeking to address the needs of street-connected girls, including family reintegration. The interviews included a sample of 32 girls living and working on the streets, among whom 24 had already tried family reintegration but had since returned to the streets. It also included 26 families/caregivers, including 10 cases in which girls had returned to the…
The purpose of this case study was to learn from boys and girls, their siblings, peers, parents, guardians and others about children’s networks of support and the joys and challenges of their daily lives. It was felt that the situation of separated refugee children needed to be considered alongside that of refugee children who live with their parents: to date, nearly all research with separated children has been done in isolation from the issues of broader relevance to refugee children in general. This study thus aimed to place the needs, circumstances and perspectives of separated Congolese…