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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 is a 3-page document targeting donors, policy makers, and UN agencies regarding the roles of volunteers and how decision makers can support their roles.
Background:
Child protection actors in humanitarian and development settings have long recognized the role of communities in assisting children affected by violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and family separation. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the reliance on community volunteers in particular, as NGO access was severely limited with lockdowns and movement restrictions implemented across the globe. With a deeper…
This issue brief from the UNHCR highlights key messages from UNHCR in regards to family tracing and reunification. The brief outlines the importance of children growing up in a safe family environment and the positive impact this has on a child's psychological, cognitive and physical development. In the best case, alternative care is only required as an interim measure while family tracing is carried out and until the time when children can be reunited with parents or family members.This brief is part of a series developed by UNHCR which aims to guide field operations on key thematic child…
Nos finais de 2019, a China presenciou uma onda de mortes devido a eclosão do novo coronavírus, tendo-se alastrado para outros países no início de 2020 incluindo Moçambique, o que levou a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) a declará-lo pandemia mundial.
Em Moçambique, o primeiro caso da COVID-19, doença causada pelo coronavírus SARS-CoV-2, foi anunciado a 22 de Março de 2020, o que levou o Presidente da República de Moçambique a decretar o primeiro estado de emergência no dia 30 de Março, através do Decreto Presidencial Nº 11/2020, e entrou em vigor a 1 de Abril de 2020. Situação esta que…
Moçambique tinha um sistema de saúde já tenso mesmo antes da chegada da COVID19 e, recentemente, teve que concentrar os seus esforços e priorizar recursos para responder ao impacto do vírus. No entanto, ouvimos as preocupações das crianças de que a COVID-19 está a interromper os serviços de saúde de rotina, devido à necessidade de desviar recursos para a resposta, mas também devido ao medo de contrair a COVID-19 nas unidades sanitárias.
Existe um risco real de vermos um aumento nas taxas de morbidade e mortalidade materna, neonatal e infantil devido à menor demanda por serviços preventivos…
Executive Statement
The number of residential care institutions (RCIs) in Uganda increased during the past 20 years. As more institutions have been established, issues regarding the quality of care received by children have risen. RCIs are not only characterised as being overcrowded and unhygienic but have also been accused of failing to ensure their primary role of protecting vulnerable children. RCIs have also been characterised by sexual, physical, and verbal abuse from both caregivers and other children. This calls for regular supervision and monitoring of existing RCIs as well as…
This paper highlights human resource and funding gaps that constrain provision of child care and protection services. It advocates for strengthening of social welfare workforce and funding to improve child care and protection services. Inadequate funding and staffing has promoted child vulnerability countrywide.
Published jointly with UNICEF, this new BCN Working Paper focuses on the role of gatekeeping in strengthening family-based care and reforming alternative care systems. Gatekeeping refers to systematic procedures aimed at ensuring that alternative care for children is used only when necessary, and that the type of care provided is suitable to the individual child. This Working Paper reviews different approaches to gatekeeping in five countries--Brazil, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Moldova, and Rwanda--to consider what has and has not worked, to analyze lessons learned from practice, and to…
This Policy Brief focuses on children living in the remote areas of Uganda and looks at the challenges these children face in attaining their rights to survival, learning and protection. Crucially, this Policy Brief also sets out what the Government can do to help overcome these challenges - to reach Every Last Child in Uganda. In its section on protection, the policy brief discusses the problems of violence against children in remote areas of Uganda, among other issues such as child labor and child marriage.
This issue brief from the UNHCR highlights key messages from UNHCR in regards to alternative care, including the importance of making alternative care arrangements based on the best interests of the child and using residential or institutional care only as a very last resort. The brief defines the role of the UNHCR in alternative care as well as key concepts of alternative care. The brief reviews the types of alternative care and key actions that UNHCR and its partners can do to ensure the best interests of the child in alternative care. The brief concludes with some examples of the…