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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…
The Hope for Homes team in Rwanda helps communities become more inclusive for children with disabilities.
In 2019, with UNICEF’s support, the Government of Rwanda began the final phase of the Tubarerere Mu Muryango Programme/Let’s Raise Children in families care reform programme that aimed to see the end of large-scale residential care in the country. This last phase of the programme focused on returning children with disabilities in residential care to their families or placing them in foster care.
This case study documents the story of David's reintegration from a residential care home for children with disabilities in Rwanda to kinship care with his grandparents.
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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.
The government of Rwanda is in the final phases of its care reform program. Having reintegrated the majority of children from residential care back to families and communities, they are now working on the reintegration of children with disabilities. In this webinar, we hear from policymakers and practitioners on how this has been done and key lessons learned.
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Hope and Homes for Children and its stakeholders documented the process of de-institutionalization (DI) of children with disabilities specifically the good practice in the closure of institutions. The exercise was conducted for the two pilot centres, Wikwiheba Mwana and Inshuti Zacu, located in Gatsibo and Kicukiro districts respectively.
This document outlines 5 key steps that serve as an effective blueprint for a successful reintegration process of children and disabilities. These include ‘engagement’, ‘Assessment’, ‘Design & Development’, ‘Transition’, and ‘Monitoring &…
This report presents the findings from the National Survey of Residential Centres for Children with Disabilities in Rwanda.
The survey aimed at gathering comprehensive and disaggregated data related to residents’ characteristics, staff profile, and the minimum standards for the centres. Using a digitalized questionnaire with Kobo Toolbox, data was collected from all centres recognized by NCPD and local authorities as caring for children and youths with disabilities in Rwanda on an overnight basis.
The questionnaire comprised three sections: face-to-face interview questions, a document…
Background
The rights of persons with disabilities, to live in a family within their communities and be given equal opportunities and freedom of choice alike other citizens, is at the heart of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). However, this can only be achieved if states invest in ensuring that citizens with disabilities have access to inhome and community-based provisions from the early stages of their lives (Márton et al., 2013).
Like all signatory states, Rwanda is fully committed to the rights of children with disabilities and other special…
This is a Training Module for the Inshuti z’Umuryango volunteer community-based cadre to support the implementation of the Tubarerere Mu Muryango (TMM) Programme (‘Let’s raise children in families’) led by the National Child Development Agency (NCD).
The purpose of this Training Module is to build awareness amongst the Inshuti z’Umuryango (IZU) community cadre on the rights and needs of children with disabilities, so that they can be allies in helping children with disabilities and families to live in their communities free from stigma and discrimination.
The Facilitators Manual is…