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The 21-22 June 2017 Africa Expert Consultation on Violence against Children (VAC) in All Care Settings was the second in a series of regional consultations focused on engaging experts within the region to collaborate, share learning, and formulate a set of regional recommendations for key actors to effectively address violence against children within all care settings,…
This case study describes the community-based alternative care system developed to address the child protection concerns of unaccompanied and separated Burundian girls and boys in Mahama refugee camp in Rwanda between 2015 and 2016.
In April 2015, Burundian president Nkurunziza announced his run for a third presidential term, sparking nationwide protests followed by months of violence and political instability. Within three months of the announcement, over 150,000 people fled Burundi. While families sent their children to seek refuge in neighboring countries, many parents stayed…
This study assesses reintegration trajectories of child soldiers in Burundi several years after demobilization. It looks broadly at socioeconomic and mental health indicators of a large group of former child soldiers and never recruited peers, both of who participated in an economic support program.
Findings of this study support the notion of the long-term resilience – when provided with support in socio-economic reintegration - of former child soldiers. They indicate that former child soldiers in Burundi feel by and large socially integrated within communities, with high work/employment…
This publication, produced by the Parenting in Africa Network (PAN), highlights the skillful parenting practices of several pastoral communities in Africa, including the Gabra and the Maasai people in Kenya, the Bozo community in Mali, the Ndebele of South Africa, and the Swahili community of the coastal strip of Africa. The aspects of parenting highlighted are: pre-birth mother care, post birth mother and child care, instilling skills in responsibility and respect, child-parent interaction, the role of fathers, sexuality and puberty, preparation for marriage, care of vulnerable children, and…
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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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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.…
The devastating consequences of HIV/AIDS on African societies, and its particular impact on children, is requiring every organisation involved in fighting the epidemic to find new strategies to address adequately both the scale of the problem and its duration. The crisis of children left behind by AIDS is a humanitarian, development and human rights challenge of unprecedented proportions.
Although there have been substantial gains in improving overall child survival, these gains are being eroded in African countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The scale of the epidemic on this…