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Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE) Zambia is a US-funded organization that transitioned from providing residential care in Zambia to pioneering family-based care, including foster care, and supporting other residential care service providers to transition. With important links to the Zambian government, ACE Zambia has been a key actor in supporting the development of policies, programs and guidelines that are now utilized across the country.
Background:
ACE Zambia, formerly known as Christian Alliance for Children in Zambia (CACZ) is a faith-based and…
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The ACE Zambia team has built a strong proof of concept for family-based care and restored thousands of children to family since 1998. In this video Simon Kanyembo, Director of Social Services at ACE Zambia, addresses the following questions:
- Why child welfare organizations should prefer family-based care to institutional care
- Response to children who are abandoned or unable to be reintegrated
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This virtual study tour aims to provide you with an overview of care reform in Zambia from the comfort of your own home. Care reform relates to the care of children. It refers to efforts to improve the legal and policy frameworks, structures, services, supports and resources that determine and deliver alternative care, prevent family separation and support families to care for children well.
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The goal of this case study is to demonstrate a working model of family-based care in Zambia which can produce a replicable framework that can be modified for other regions and circumstances. This paper seeks to shed light on positive outcomes when family-based care is prioritized. Drawing on over twenty years of experience in family-based care, Alliance for Children Everywhere seeks to share their experience in Zambia and support a transition to family-based care to other OVC organizations within Southern Africa and beyond.
Children and adolescents living in Zambia are exposed to multi-dimensional risks and vulnerabilities, with a confluence of factors underpinning poverty and insecurity.
The Service Efficiency and Effectiveness for Vulnerable Children and Adolescents (SEEVCA) programme intends to develop a national child and family welfare system to reduce vulnerability and expand social protection for the most vulnerable and marginalised households. A key component to improved service delivery is integrated case management.
This technical study is one of three SEEVCA landscaping studies. The purpose of…
Abstract
Family constitutes more than simple living arrangements, and these systems are of pivotal development importance in sub-Saharan Africa. The diversity of family structures and types in sub-Saharan Africa has warranted an examination of the various policies and laws in the region. This paper examines all policy and laws related to families in the South, West, East and Central regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The paper highlights the sundry of policies and laws that are influenced by cultural and religious differences within and across regions. Issues relating to patriarchy and…
In December 2015, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) through the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), in partnership with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), commissioned the Nationwide Assessment of all Child Care Facilities (CCFs). The Assessment was undertaken between April and July 2016 as a collaborative effort between the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) and UNICEF. This report is based on findings the Nationwide Assessment.
The aim of the Assessment was to gather evidence for the purpose of updating baseline…
Save the Children (SC) Zambia implemented a Child Rights Program (2013-2017) titled; “Towards a systematic change to realize Children’s Rights in Zambia.” The programme had three thematic areas namely; Child Rights Governance (CRG), Child Protection, and HIV and Child Rights. The goal of the CRG thematic area was to ensure that “children in Zambia benefit from improved child-focused national legislation, policies and budgets that comply with the Children’s Rights Charter (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children (ACRWC).” Child protection aimed at ensuring that fewer…
This is a study from Catholic Relief Services that investigates the factors related to children’s placement in Catholic-affiliated residential care facilities in Zambia. According to this study, the government estimates that there are approximately 190 residential-care facilities located in Zambia, and of those 40 are Catholic-affiliated. At the time of this study, there were 1674 residents living in residential care.
The study sought to answer three main research questions:
1) What characterizes Catholic-affiliated residential care for children?
2) What are the main…