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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/the Committee), in collaboration with African Union Member States, partner organizations, children and young people, launched the first of its kind Continental Study on Children Without Parental Care (CWPC) in Africa. The study, conducted from 2020 to 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, covered over 43 countries in the five regions of Africa.
In this webinar, a new paper on strategies to prevent family separation is presented. Examples from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Namibia are presented.
The Regional Learning Platform on care reform for Eastern and Southern Africa provides an opportunity for government, UNICEF and others involved in care reform in the region to share learning through webinars, document exchange, a HelpDesk, and pairing and mentoring. The platform and its…
Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) Kenya is working with four local non-governmental and faith-based organizations in the western part of Kenya and on the coast to strengthen family based care for children with an aim to prevent child-family separation and increase family-based alternatives for those that are separated.
The support received by families is largely provided by community-level workforce including skilled and trusted volunteers who work directly with families to understand the challenges that they face and the…
This learning brief was developed as part of the CTWWC 2021 annual report and shares learning from several contexts and is intended to share learning on how family strengthening, reunification, case management and workforce strengthening can be integrated in care reform.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national systems of care for children, strengthening families, family reunification and preventing child-family separation, which can have harmful, long-term…
Learning briefs are short resources that share more about how Changing the Way We Care undertakes a certain aspect of the care reform work and what some of the main lessons are. This learning brief was developed as part of the initiative's 2022 annual report and shares learning on family-based alternative care from Guatemala, Moldova, India and Kenya and links the reader to additional CTWWC resources on the topic.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national…
This UNICEF ESARO webinar discussed strategies for building strong families and communities and preventing child-family separation in the region.
A moderated panel shared approaches for preventing double separation among teenage mothers in Kenya, family preservation and empowerment strategies in Zambia, and the work of UNICEF Rwanda in family strengthening and community-based support for the care of children with disabilities.
Catholic Care for Children (CCC) is a visionary initiative, led by Catholic sisters, to see children growing up in safe, nurturing families. Guided by the biblical mandate to care for the most vulnerable and animated by the principles of Catholic Social Teaching—especially the dignity of each person—CCC teams are reducing the need for institutional care by encouraging and facilitating family- and community-based care for children.
CCC began in Uganda in 2016 after the government enacted legislation favoring family- and community-based care. The goal was to remedy the alarming increase in…
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 Strategic Paper, from the Igarapé Institute, reviews emerging capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to prevent violence against children in the Global South. The paper features case studies from Benin, Brazil, Kenya, Uganda and other countries and presents key findings from the review of emerging technological trends, typologies, and threats around the world, including findings on the use of technology in family tracing related to children separated from their families during emergencies.
This new study by Parenting in Africa Network (PAN) was conducted in three regions in Kenya (Nairobi, Mombasa and Busia), involving primary care givers of children age 0-8 identified though PAN members’ programs, children participating in private and public Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) centers, and stakeholders and professionals involved in skillful parenting and early childhood development.
It sought to assess the knowledge gaps and skills among parents and care givers regarding what constitutes skillful parenting, and identify and document their attitudes, and…