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This document contains a list of alternative care homes in Uganda that have been approved by the Ministry for Gender, Labour and Social Development.
Introduction
Around the world, very few reliable estimates exist of the populations of children living and/or working on the streets. These children are often missed by national censuses or other surveys as they may be absent from households, or live in vulnerable and transient households which are not included. In Uganda, a group of local stakeholders working with children on the streets, in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (MGLSD) and the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), were interested in undertaking an enumeration of the street population in…
Zanzibar’s Department of Social Welfare - a department within the Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children - along with Save the Children UK and SOS Children’s Villages undertook a rapid assessment of residential care institutions in Zanzibar in order to determine how many children were living in children’s homes, their ages, the factors that influenced their institutionalization, the status of their families of origin, and the authorities referring children to these homes. The assessment was carried out in an effort to provide preliminary information to assist the…
Retrak, Chisomo Children’s Club, and the Malawi Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability, and Social Welfare sought to address the lack of information on the number of children living and working on the streets in Malawi, a common problem throughout the world. The research team undertook an enumeration study of children on the streets in Lilongwe and Blantyre, using the capture/recapture methodology.
The study estimates the number of children living and working on the streets in Lilongwe to be 2,389 and in Blantyre to be 1,776; this is based on children reporting or being observed to…
Executive Summary
This report presents findings of a baseline study for the Strong Beginnings -- A Family for all Children project. The study sought to gather comprehensive data on Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in the three project districts (Kampala, Jinja and Wakiso) and assess the wellbeing of children living in those institutions. The results were expected to inform the interventions aimed at improving CCIs’ gate-keeping, improving the quality of care in CCIs, resettlement of children, and working towards promoting and strengthening family based alternative care. In addition, the…
The Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development (MoGLSD) in Uganda set up an Alternative Care Task Force in 2011 to investigate the state of childcare in Uganda and develop a national Alternative Care Framework. The Alternative Care Framework outlines a continuum of care for each child who is without direct parental care and the activities to be undertaken to ensure the Framework can be operationalised.
An Assessment Toolkit has been created to assist Probation and Social Welfare Officers (PSWO’s) to monitor and report on the childcare institutions in their Districts. The…
Sommaire Exécutif
Introduction:
L’ UNICEF estime a 2,2 millions le nombre d’enfants vivant dans une institution à travers le monde. Mais au Burundi, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays, il est difficile d’obtenir des chiffres fiables. C’est la raison pour laquelle, dans le cadre de la Politique Nationale pour les Orphelins et Enfants Vulnérables (OEV) et du Plan d’Action 2007-2011, le Gouvernement du Burundi, en collaboration avec l’UNICEF et l’ONG International Rescue Committee (IRC), a prévu de faire un état de lieux des centres résidentiels pour les enfants.
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In March 2012, the Cabinet of the Republic of Rwanda approved the National Strategy for Child Care Reform. The aim of the strategy is to transform Rwanda’s current childcare and child protection system into a family-based, family-strengthening system whose resources (both human and financial) are primarily targeted at supporting vulnerable families to remain together. The strategy recognises that transformation of institutions (sometimes known as orphanages) is an entry point to building sustainable childcare and child protection systems. The first phase, estimated to take 24 months,…
The report of this study responds to the objectives of identifying all the residential centres for children in Burundi, including the number of children residing in them; analysing the situation of children living in the centres and developing recommendations for the next steps as recommended by the National Policy on Orphans and Vulnerable children (OVC) in its 2007-2011 Action Plan.
In order to measure the quality of care found in the residential centres, the research team adapted the “Standards for the Quality of Care: East and Central Africa”, published by Save the Children in 2005.…
This study commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Community Development and financially and technically supported by UNICEF and the Better Care Network, aimed at describing the situation of children in institutional care and creating a database containing all institutions in Malawi catering for children requiring alternative care. Some of the scope of work the study covers including mapping out the institutions and counting the number of children being cared for, determining the registration status of institutions, documenting different types…