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This report from Child's i Foundation provides an overview of the organisation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. Child's i Foundation is taking steps to ensure that families do not have to make the "heartbreaking choice" of placing their child in an orphanage and is also working to ensure that the needs of children in orphanages are being addressed.
These steps include:
- Responding to child protection issues
- Maintaining contact with orphanages and advocating government to ensure that children in institutional care are prioritised
- Keeping…
The Kenya Society of Care Leavers (KESCA), the Uganda Care Leavers (UCL), The Better Care Network and Changing the Way We Care invited policy makers, practitioners, advocates and careleavers to a unique opportunity to listen and learn from two leaders of careleaver associations.
Special guests Ruth Wacuka of the Kenya Society of Care Leavers and Mai Nambooze of Uganda Care Leavers highlighted two recent documents that illustrate the careleaver experience within and outside of care (…
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Globalization of knowledge and scholarship raises the challenges of dialogue between Global North and South. Northern knowledge and voice remain privileged, while writing from the South often goes unread. This is true also in emerging adulthood and care-leaving scholarship. The special issue of Emerging Adulthood titled “Care-Leaving in Africa” is the first collection of essays on care-leaving by African scholars. It presents both care-leaving and emerging adulthood scholars from the Global North a unique opportunity to consider the implications of a rising…
The Uganda Care Leavers (UCL) project is sponsored by Alternative Care Initiatives (ACI), a Ugandan NGO, and BULA, a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The project supports and advocates for care leavers— children and young people who have spent some, or all, of their lives in residential care.
The Uganda Care Leavers (UCL) project believes that providing care leavers with support and opportunities to freely voice their perspectives and experiences in a non-threatening and refl ective manner is critical in highlighting the inherent challenges of the overreliance on residential care…
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The increasing number of “orphans and vulnerable children” (‘OVC’) in sub-Saharan Africa has been the subject of much inquiry and intervention in research, policy and practice. Two major concerns have been highlighted: i) traditional mechanisms for their care and support are overstretched and ii) ‘OVC’ have poor socioeconomic outcomes. Dominant discourses emphasise adults’ central role in ‘OVC’ wellbeing while ‘OVC’ are cast as helpless, passive victims and not active social agents who demonstrate resilience and ingenuity in dealing with difficult circumstances.…
The national child participation guide for Uganda - Creating an environment for children to be heard
This is a National Guide for the participation of children which has been developed in consonance with Art. 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). The Guide is intended to facilitate meaningful participation of children from the family level through to national, regional and international levels. The aim is to target the various audiences in the different settings. This Guide is designed to be an invaluable instrument specifically for those working at institutions/organisations including schools and health care providers; legal institutions; probation and…
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 many communities, the extended family system and other traditional safety nets responsible for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) are being severely strained by the multiple, mutually reinforcing impacts of HIV and AIDS. Building on proven strategies, World Vision continues to seek cost effective ways to help communities provide care for the unprecedented number of children and families made vulnerable by the pandemic. Through the Models of Learning programme, World Vision has developed a strategy that interlinks three core programming models to address the needs of children and others…
This document provides a tool that was used to asses capacities for quality OVC response in Uganda by the Core Initiative. The broad capacity areas to be assessed were compiled from the capacity areas identified by OVC grantees and from key documents such as the National Strategic Program Plan of Interventions for OVC (NSSPI). A few capacity areas were added where key gaps were identified. The tool addresses the following capacities:
Quality OVC service delivery capacity
- Child…