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Recognising the need for coordination and consistency in Government interventions for children, the Government of Rwanda, through the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF) initiated the development of the Integrated Child Rights Policy, a comprehensive national document, detailing Rwanda’s vision and commitment to all children. The Integrated Child Rights Policy is conceived with the objectives of strengthening the thinking and analysis around policies related to children and the coordination and implementation of Government activities for realization of children’s rights.
The Violence Against Children Surveys are nationally representative household surveys led by national governments, with technical support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as part of the Together for Girls partnership. This fact sheet presents country-specific data from the Violence Against Children Survey (VACS) in Rwanda.
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CARE Rwanda’s Nkundabana (Kinyarwanda for “I love children,”) approach provides a community-based solution to the overwhelming problem of child-headed households (CHHs) and households in which adults are unable to provide adequate care for children. Challenged by the impact of civil war, genocide and HIV/AIDS, Rwanda is confronted with one of the highest percentages of orphans in the world. Communities already overburdened by social fragmentation, loss of labor from the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and crippling poverty are unprepared to care for the children left behind. Even the…
This Country Care Review includes the care-related concluding observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This report presents findings from the national Violence Against Children Survey (VACS), administered in Rwanda from 2015-2016, and lays out recommendations for addressing and preventing violence against children based on those findings. The survey was administered to households with children and young people ages 13 to 24 throughout Rwanda, including households where children had lost one or both parents, examining…
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Little is known about the buffering role of social support among orphans living in Africa. This study examined (1) how perceived social support (PSS) varied across orphan‐related characteristics (e.g., orphan status, such as single, maternal or paternal, and their living environments, such as in child‐headed households, on the street, in an orphanage or in a foster home) and (2) the relative importance of sources of PSS (relatives/community/adults and peers) and functional social support (emotional/informational/instrumental and social) and its association with emotional well‐…
In June 1994 the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the United Nations Children's Fund together agreed that a coordinated approach to the plight of unaccompanied children in Rwanda was essential. On the assumption that computerized matching would facilitate their reunification with their families, it was decided to centralize on a database the names and other details of unaccompanied children and of parents looking for their children. The…
This study, commissioned by UNICEF, examines formal fostering policy and practice from the point of view of the Rwandan government and fostering agencies, and explores the perceptions of fostering of children, foster parents, local authorities and other members of local communities. This is a condensed version of a case study produced by the Government of Rwanda, UNICEF and Save the Children Alliance and published by UNICEF under the title of "Umwana Wanjye ni Uwawe ni Uwacu = My Child is Yours and Ours: The Rwandan Experience of Foster Care for Separated Children".
This video from UNICEF Rwanda shows some of the moving stories of children and their new families who have been brought together through the TMM initiative. Tubarerere mu Muryango - or TMM - means "let's raise children in families" in Kinyarwanda. UNICEF supports the Government-led TMM initiative to reintegrate children who have been living in institutions into families and the community.
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,…