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The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), the Office of the Head of Local Government Service (OHLGS), with the support of UNICEF and USAID, have embarked on a process of strengthening the social welfare workforce Ghana. The building of the human resource capacity is a key step towards creating a functional, holistic social welfare system and a fundamental component of systems strengthening process. Based on social welfare workforce assessment, a long-term capacity building strategy was developed to assist the Government of Ghana, specifically the OHLGS and MoGCSP to…
In 2014, the Lao Statistics Bureau and the National Commission for Mothers and Children (now the National Commission for the Advancement of Women, Mothers and Children) led the implementation of Lao PDR’s first national Violence against Children Survey. The findings of this survey were presented in a final report which "provides a number of wide-ranging and interlocking recommendations to help Lao PDR to effectively address violence against children over the short-, medium- and long-term." This document outlines the priority actions to which the Government of Lao PDR is committed to…
This document provides the national framework for the child protection system in Kenya, developed with the intention of improving linkages between different sectors for more a more coordinated approach to protecting children. In addition to identifying and describing the objectives and guiding principles and values for the framework (provided below), this document includes background information and justification for the development of a framework, as well as the framework's structure and roles and functions of stakeholders working in child protection.
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This “roadmap” document outlines the recommended implementation strategies and activities for strengthening family- and community-based alternative care in Liberia. It accompanies the Guidelines on Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living (the Guidelines) and the Capacity Building Plan to Implement the Guidelines (CBP). The roadmap serves as a resource tool for the Government of Liberia, and its partners, for the protection of children without appropriate care through the development of alternative care, deinstitutionalization and other support services.…
This document, entitled "The Mechanism of Professional Supervision in Social Assistance", was approved by Order of the Minister of Social Protection, Family and Child (Moldova) on 31 December 2008. It aims to improve the professional supervision process and broaden the coverage of professional support needs for staff providing social assistance, including community-based social assistants and social workers.