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These presentations from Know-How Center Bulgaria, Children and Family Initiative, and Changing the Way We Care, were delivered during the September 30, 2021, workshop of the Care Measurement Task Force of the Transforming Children's Care Global Collaborative Platform. The focus of the workshop was translating research evidence into action.
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The study determined the perceived effects of prolonged residential care for children in Botswana. The study adopted qualitative descriptive research design. Data was collected through focus group discussions and face-to-face in-depth interviews from purposefully selected participants, based on their experience in child welfare and interactions with the children under study. The study obtained ethical clearance from the University of Botswana Institutional Review Board, and a research permit was acquired from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. Informed consent…
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In Botswana, residential care facilities are one of the options to accommodate children in need of care. However, in some cases they are over-utilised and the child’s stay is prolonged. Using the Attachment Theory as a guiding framework, this study sought to explore the effects of prolonged residential care for children. The study was conducted at the Childline Botswana Place of Safety in 2014. Focus group discussions and in-depth face-to-face interviews were adopted for data collection. All the participants were purposefully selected based on their experience in child welfare and…
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This study sought to investigate the lived experiences of care leavers from institutional care facility in Botswana. The study objectives were to explore the challenges faced by children after leaving the institutional care and to identify services that can be offered to them in preparation for life in a society in general. The study adopted a cross-sectional qualitative research approach, and data were collected through in-depth interviews that were qualitatively analysed. Thirty participants was sampled, and there were divided into 2 sections comprising care leavers and key…
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Approximately 21,000 children were accommodated in residential care in South Africa in 2011/2012. Despite this large number, and the state's substantial financial investment in residential care, there has, until recently, been little research on care-leaving: the transition out of care due to reaching adulthood. Furthermore, much of the research available has not been published in international journals. This article reports on a systematic review of research on residential care-leaving in South Africa, from 2003 to 2016. A thematic analysis of the resulting 40 research outputs…
This essay from the South African Child Gauge 2017 critically engages with the 2030 Global Agenda and assesses the potential of the SDGs to transform our world to enable all children – regardless of race, gender, ability, or social background – to not only survive but thrive. In this essay, the examine the following key questions:
- What enables children to thrive?
- What interventions are needed to ensure that all children thrive?
- To what extent do the SDGs promote nurturing care?
- Do the SDGs create an enabling environment…
This chapter appears in Child Maltreatment in Residential Care: History, Research, and Current Practice, a volume of research examining the institutionalization of children, child abuse and neglect in residential care, and interventions preventing and responding to violence against children living in out-of-home care settings around the world.
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The present study aimed to evaluate and discuss the appropriateness of institutions caring for Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) in the face of HIV/AIDS through a systematic literature review. In the face of HIV/AIDS environment, OVC care institutions: offer a second best home; professionalize their services; provide mothering and attachment figures; and offer HIV/AIDS services. Further, they display the following gaps: The children suffer immense state of stigma; management and funding challenges; experience erratic and unreliable donations/supplies; and…
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Globally, regionally and in national contexts, institutionalised care has been receiving wide scholarship, debates, discourses and criticisms, with some various scholars questioning the relevance, appropriateness and effectiveness of this option to children’s care and protection. South Africa and Botswana are perceived as two success stories in Southern African region in terms of championing children’s rights, especially those relating to the care and protection of OVCs. This study has, through an immense literature review analysis explored: the role of OVC care…
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Institutional care has remained an option for children who lack visible means of care and protection. However, in many settings, the quality of care which children receive has been alleged to be detrimental to their growth and development. The present study, through an extensive review of literature has: explored and reconceptualised institutional care, considered the dynamics of institutionalization, effects and impacts of institutionalization on OVCs, such as educational attainment, socialization and psychosocial impacts. The research has also discussed the…