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This case study details the experience of Attim, a 54-year-old grandmother from Eastern Uganda who provides care for her grandchildren after they left residential care. Social workers in Uganda often find that placement with extended family members is the most appropriate option for children leaving residential care.
This case also details that the successful reintegration from residential to kinship care requires preparing families well so that they have realistic expectations around the challenges that they may face.
This document has been produced as part…
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, the world has experienced a series of waves and variants of the ever evolving and vaccine eluding COVID-19 virus. Initial responses predominantly focused on slowing the spread of the virus and included movement restrictions, intra-country and inter-country border closings, quarantine, isolation, social distancing, and mask wearing. Whilst these responses aimed to slow the spread of the virus, they also tended to overlook the prioritization of vulnerable populations such as children with disabilities, children in alternative care…
Malaika Babies Home was a residential transition centre established in Uganda in 2009 and run by Child’s i Foundation. It was designed to provide high quality temporary care to abandoned babies whilst family tracing, reintegration or adoption efforts took place. The goal was to combat the long-term institutionalisation of children that was prevalent in Uganda at the time, and ensure more children ended up in family-based care. Child’s i Foundation aimed to do this by coupling the residential service with a strong reintegration program. However, despite efforts to ensure children spent as…
The Building Positive Futures project was a pilot study that sought to test a range of quantitative and qualitative research tools for use in leaving care studies in Africa, including a peer research approach. As there have been few previous African studies on care leaving, the research team hoped to develop their understanding of how best to conduct cross-country…
Across Africa, there are many young people who do not live with their biological families and grow up in alternative care. Despite knowing that African young people who grow up in care can struggle as they move into adulthood, there is very little research on leaving care in African countries. To help increase understanding of careleaving in Africa, a group of researchers from Queen’s University Belfast in the UK, University of Johannesburg in South Africa, University of Ghana and Makerere University in Uganda came together to do this research. They tested a range of methods to find…
In collaboration with colleagues at Queen’s University Belfast in the UK, this feasibility study was undertaken by a team of academic researchers from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, University of Ghana and Makerere University in Uganda, all of whom are members of the Africa Network of Care-leaving Researchers (ANCR).
Given the paucity of research on youth transitioning from alternative care (i.e. care-leaving or leaving care) in Africa, the study sought to develop and test a methodology for a cross-country, comparative study on leaving care in Africa. This involved the…
Executive summary
Family Reintegration and Prevention of Separation (FRAPS) is a four-year (2016-2019) Comic Relief-supported project, implemented in partnership with Tigers Club (TC) and Child Restoration Outreach
(CRO) in selected sub-counties of Wakiso and Mbale districts of Uganda. The project’s aim is to provide care and protection of highly vulnerable children, young people and families in communities who are at risk of coming to the streets, via four main objectives:
1. Children and young people on the streets have improved access to services to protect them from violence,…
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 (…
Background
With support from USAID’s Vulnerable Children Fund (formerly Displaced Children and Orphans Fund - DCOF), the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) Family Care Project focused on how economic strengthening (ES) interventions can help prevent unnecessary separation of children from families as…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Background
The Economic Strengthening to Keep and Reintegrate Children in Family Care (ESFAM) project was funded by USAID’s Displaced Children and Orphans Fund and managed by FHI 360 through the Accelerating Strategies for Practical Innovation and Research in Economic Strengthening (ASPIRES) Family Care Project. ESFAM was developed to help build the…