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The long-term consequences of COVID-19 have been tough for children around the world, but even more so for young children already in humanitarian crises, whether due to conflict, natural disasters, or economic and political upheaval. Young Children in Humanitarian and COVID-19 Crises: (2024), edited by Sweta Shah and Lucy Bassett, investigates how organizations around the world responded to these dual challenges, identifying solutions and learning opportunities to help to support young children in ongoing and future crises. Drawing on research and voices from the Global South…
The video provides key lessons learnt from COVID-19 on care reform from interviews with UNICEF, government and NGO staff in Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and Kenya. The video focuses on the following areas.
- Including care reform in emergency preparedness and response
- Understanding and demonstrating the impact of a rapidly changing context on care
- Remote support to care reform
- The vital role of community volunteers
- The importance of proper reintegration processes and support
This webinar provides nine lessons learnt on care reform from the COVID-19 pandemic with examples from Malawi, Uganda and Kenya.
This series of country briefs aims 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.
The briefs are targeted to policy makers, researchers, and practitioners working to inform policy and programs for children’s care and protection at country and international levels. In order to enable researchers and policy makers in the countries and regions to conduct further analysis, tables…
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Introduction: Economic strengthening practitioners are increasingly seeking data collection tools that will help them target households vulnerable to HIV and poor child well-being outcomes, match households to appropriate interventions, monitor their status, and determine readiness for graduation from project support. This article discusses efforts in 3 countries to develop simple, valid tools to quantify and classify economic vulnerability status.
Methods and Findings: In Côte d'Ivoire, we conducted a cross-sectional survey with 3,…
This chapter from South African Child Gauge 2018 describes the demographics of children's household living arrangements in South Africa, including details on orphaned children. The chapter also provides statistics on child-headed households.
This presentation was given by Florence Martin of Better Care Network at the 6th International Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators in Montreal, Canada in June 2017. The presentation addresses the following questions:
1) What do patterns and trends in children’s living arrangements tell us about parental care in Eastern and Southern Africa?
2) What do they tell us about the role of extended family care (kinship care)?
3) What are possible implications for efforts to prevent child-parent separation and strengthen family care?
The presentation…
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Vulnerable children and families are entitled to efficient, comprehensive and respectful assistance on multiple fronts set out in national and global policies, but are often faced with piecemeal, inadequate and intrusive services, or are neglected altogether. Services designed to protect children’s rights often function on their own, disconnected from other services that may also be needed if these rights are to be protected and their needs met holistically. The results are often overlaps and gaps in services, negatively impacting those in need of services. From the child and…
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This study explores the relationship between orphanhood prevalence, living arrangements and orphanhood reporting. Research on children’s orphanhood status and living arrangements is well established, but not so much in the context of orphanhood data quality assessment. The study provides a historical context of the measurement of orphanhood, the assessment of data quality, and concludes that in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, where child fostering is common, parental coresidency may be more inclusive and may provide a better understanding of children’s vulnerability than the…
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Globally, there are many reasons children grow up without one or both parents. In higher-income nations, a parental break up is a major force behind non-nuclear family care arrangements whereas in low-income nations, higher death rates and the need to migrate for work may dictate whether or not children regularly see their parents, let alone live with them. Given the importance of children’s care arrangements for their development, this essay summarizes efforts to measure trends in children’s care arrangements in two regions of the world—Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.…