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This document is an evaluation of Retrak’s reintegration of street children and community-based child protection project in SNNPR, Ethiopia. The project aimed to provide services to children living unsupported on the street and reintegrate these children with their families, as well as provide support for caregivers
This evaluation reviews the project’s drop-in centers and reintegration; self-help groups; child well-being clubs; and community education programs. The evaluation concluded that the best interest of the child were maintained across all services.
In this Ethiopia Child Protection Fact Sheet, UNHCR provides the main child protection highlights, issues, and trends for 2014 to 2016. These issues surround the large influx of unaccompanied and separated children entering Ethiopia. In 2015, northern Ethiopia recorded approximately 4,200 new unaccompanied and separated children arrivals. In northern Ethiopia 63% of unaccompanied and separated children live in community-based housing/alternative care/group care.
Each year Retrak maps the locations of family reintegration placements and tracks trends in locations over time. They have used this information to help them understand the geographic spread of children coming to the streets and to target prevention programmes on ‘’hotspots’’- places from which many children migrate to the streets.
This is a joint statement issued by ACPF and the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children following the Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on Ending Violence against children in Africa held in Addis Ababa, on September 29th and 30th, 2016.
The meeting unanimously endorsed the establishment of the African Partnership to End Violence against Children and discussed the major elements of the programme framework and modalities of operations.
This book published jointly by FAO, UNICEF, and Oxford University Press presents the findings from evaluations of the Transfer Project, a cash transfer project undertaken in the following sub-Saharan African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It concludes that cash transfers are becoming a key means for social protection in developing countries. The editors examine and evaluate the evidence in support of the viability of cash transfers. This book also focuses on the collaborative efforts of governments, development and research…
This Regional Kinship Care Album is a compilation of the 3 country albums (Kenya, Ethiopia and Zanzibar) bringing together information from children, young people and adults collected during the Kinship Care Research that took place in each of the three countries from late 2013 through 2014. The research was undertaken to improve the knowledge and understanding of Kinship Care as an endogenous practice so as to inform future programme and advocacy interventions on care reform, and in particular, to know how best to strengthen community based alternatives such as this.
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The goal of this final evaluation is to build on the mid-term review of a 3-year pilot community project established to address some of the push factors that were leading many children to come to the city of Addis Ababa from Ethiopia’s southern region (SNNPR). The final evaluation assess achievements of the project to guide decision-making on next steps for the project and to generate learning for informing similar projects in future.
This study sought to inform improvements in service delivery of Retrak’s Independent Living programme by listening to and documenting the voices of participants. The interviewees were asked for feedback on the support they received and their ideas for improvement and aspirations. The ideas and experiences of these young people highlighted the importance of supportive relationships, gaining skills and finding employment, as well as feeling included and accepted by their communities. The stories they shared have provided Retrak with valuable insights into how to better support our…
Kinship care in Ethiopia is embedded within the socio-cultural and economic context of the Ethiopian family system as alternative child care option, where by relatives assume greater responsibility for the provision of psychosocial and economic care of children who are orphans or those unable to live with their parents as a result of several factors. The kinship bond in Ethiopia includes family members related with the orphan children either by blood, marriage, clan, friendship, and or other deliberately created social ties.
This album presents viewpoints of children and young people, who…
This study investigates the effects of Community Care Coalitions on child protection in Assosa City, Ethiopia. It explores services and strategies employed by Community Care Coalitions to address child protection, as well as challenges faced by Community Care Coalitions while attempting to provide these services. This paper points out how Mizrahi and Rosenthal state that successful coalition building has the following four basic components; condition, commitment, contributions and competence. Senbeta also points out how politics can have significant effects on coalition building…