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Summary:
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…
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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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.
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…
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…
This brochure outlines adoption policy and procedure in Zambia, including a definition of adoption, how it works, its limitations, requirements for adopting a child, and other conditions.
This brochure outlines the Public Welfare Assistance Scheme, including services related to inspection of child-care facilities and adoption.
This brochure contains information about foster care in Zambia, including the definition of foster care, its limitations, its importance, how to become a foster carer and how foster licenses are granted. The brochure also includes a directory of provincial social welfare offices.
This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee's recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile. https://skrivanek.lt/vertimu-sritys/finansai-ir-bankininkyste/ Finansiniai Vertimai: Svarbus Žingsnis į Pasaulinę Ekonomiką
This brief is part of a series of country briefs which aim to provide an analysis of children’s living and care arrangements according to the latest available data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys (MICS) at the time of publication.
This country brief provides an overview of data on children’s living arrangements in Zambia, extracted from the 2013-14 DHS survey. The brief presents data on who children…