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Even though the Cross-Government review and action plan were approved by the Supreme Court of Justice and the National Council for Children early 2020, due to the pandemic and national sanitary emergency declared in Paraguay (affecting the protection system severely), the government was not able to implement the evidence-based cross-agency plan to optimize the system, with the immediate, short and long term measures as a solution to root problems identified.
However, in spite of not achieving the estimated funding for the cross-agency plan of 2019, significant …
Presentation of Results - Cross-Government Review of the Child Protection and Care System
On July 4 to 6, 2023, the Interagency Forum of Diagnosis and Dialogue “Together for the Harmony of the System in favor of children and adolescents” was held as an update of the Cross-government Review of the system and processes for the protection of children separated from their families or at risk of being so in Paraguay, bringing together the key actors of the system in 3 intensive work days to provide the State a roadmap with efficient and achievable solutions and improvements,…
The purpose of this systematization report is to make available the information produced at the Summit in the final stage of the cross-sectional review of the child protection system in Paraguay, and to be a communication and planning tool at the service of the Government agencies that were part of this process. This document specifically includes the set of proposals prepared and presented by the research team and institutional liaisons, together with the subcommittee of the National Council for Children and Adolescents, in the development of possible solutions framed in three phases:…
Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
This comprehensive report discusses progress made towards universal prohibition of corporal punishment of children, including by highlighting examples from individual states that have recently implemented legal and policy reforms. Since its last edition in 2015, three additional states – Mongolia, Paraguay and Slovenia – prohibited all corporal punishment, including in the home, bringing the total number of prohibiting states to 51. Greenland – a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark – As part of the Universal Periodic Review of their overall human…
This Guide, written in Spanish, features a compilation of several social protection programs, services and public policies that resulted in the prevention of family breakdown and in the support of families and communities in caring and protecting their children. It also describes different experiences of the implementation of foster care programs, and the description of processes of de-institutionalization and system reform. All these examples are taken from the Latin American region, Italy and Romania.
This report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world. The report is aimed at enhancing knowledge around violence against children in alternative care (especially what makes children vulnerable and what puts them at risk) and providing policymakers and practitioners insight into the challenges of protecting children from violence as well as recommendations for change.
The report offers several key findings from an extensive…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of Paraguay's initial report adopted by the Committee at its ninth session, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
1 in 10 children worldwide lives in the care of family members or friends who are not their birth parents. Yet in many countries, kinship care receives no official acknowledgement, leaving caregivers without vital support and potentially putting children at risk.
Join this online event to learn what kinship care looks like in different contexts and why recognising it is so important. Participants will hear from frontline practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia and Paraguay about the different ways that kinship care is used to reintegrate children from institutional care and life on the…
Paraguay Protege Familias (PPF) is a volunteer movement (led by a group of children's homes, foster care agencies and other organizations, churches and pastoral networks, professionals, and business leaders) that seeks to support families and ensure that all children that cannot remain with their birth families are placed in the care of safe and loving families. This is achieved by mobilizing every segment of society, along with connecting with decision-makers and those who work directly with Paraguay's vulnerable children and families. Among others, PPF works very closely with government, as…