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Background
Over the past six years, the global child protection humanitarian community has invested significant efforts into setting standards and improving the quality of child protection case management in humanitarian settings. In 2017, the Case Management Task Force (CMTF) of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) decided to prioritize the role of supervision, with coaching as a core approach and strategy. With OFDA’s support, the CMTF undertook the creation of Supervision and Coaching guidance, tools and a training package.…
This infographic was shared by the Country Core Team from Uganda who presented at a workshop in London in September 2017, facilitated by MEASURE Evaluation, funded and supported by DCOF/USAID and focused on moving forward alternative care reform in Ghana, Uganda, Armenia and Moldova. The infographic provides a historical timeline of the alternative care reform process in Uganda, marking key achievements in the establishment of policies, guidelines, procedures, and…
This easy to use resource from the Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development in Uganda, in consultation with civil society, outlines a continuum of care framework for responding to vulnerable children. The resource lists appropriate responses in order of priority, with the first priority being prevention of separation and keeping families together.
This comprehensive report describes the process, findings and recommendations of the baseline survey for a project titled, "Building and Strengthening Community-Based Child Protection Systems in Busoga and Acholi sub-regions" commissioned by the African Network for the Prevention and Protection against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN). A large part of the proposed project will focus on prevention work geared towards building the capacity of families and those caring for children to provide a safe environment through initiating parenting discussions, home…
In Uganda, over 2 million children are orphans or otherwise vulnerable, representing 14% of the nation’s children. One in four households in Uganda fosters at least one orphan. Fostering by kin or community members is recognized as the best option for orphans and the costs are far less than those of caring for children in orphanages. Many programs in Uganda seek to support orphans and vulnerable children, in alignment with both international policy and Uganda’s national policy. Although there is some research on the efforts to assist orphans in Uganda, few studies have…
The Government of Uganda (GoU) through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) approved a National Orphans and other Vulnerable Children Policy (NOP) and a National Strategic Programme Plan of Interventions for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (NSPPI) in 2004. These two instruments reflect a commitment to and a context for the fulfillment of the rights of Ugandan children who are orphaned and/or vulnerable.
Service providers, programme implementers and communities supporting orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC) have requested guidance in order to operate…
This poster depicting the National Quality Standards for the Protection, Care and Support of Orphans and OVC in Uganda was developed to be used in conjunction with the companion booklet entitled A guide for interpreting and applying national quality standards for the protection, care and support of orphans and other vulnerable children in Uganda. Iaddresses sustaining livelihoods, national standards, indicators and sample interventions.
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An inspection of children's homes in the Mukono Municipality of Uganda revealed that most were not meeting minimum standards; in response, municipality leaders have suspended the registration of new children's homes and orphanages in the area.