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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.
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 report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world. The report is aimed at enhancing knowledge around violence against children in alternative care (especially what makes children vulnerable and what puts them at risk) and providing policymakers and practitioners insight into the challenges of protecting children from violence as well as recommendations for change.
The report offers several key findings from an extensive…
This report - produced by SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, and the University of Malawi - is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It considers common challenges to implementing the Guidelines identified in the eight countries and provides a platform for effective advocacy to promote every child’s right to quality care. At the end of each chapter, the report provides…
This report, prepared for UNICEF East and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO) assesses the capacity in Malawi, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia to manage alternative care systems for children.
In general, it is difficult to obtain information on alternative care in the assessed countries. There is limited to no systematic, central data collection or collation on children living in informal or formal alternative care situations. Without systematic data, it's difficult to discern trends, and many observations rely on interviews and anecdotal evidence. The information gathered is not…