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This UNICEF ESARO webinar explores the role of case management in care reform and examines strategies for effective case management from Kenya, Ghana and Uganda. Speakers address case conferencing, integrated case management, caseloads, and monitoring case management.
This is a poster for Child Protection teams to emphasize the evidence based practices of engaging volunteers that were documented in the research.
Additional Resources:
- Exploratory Study Report | Community Engagement in Case Management: The full research report with the findings and recommendations for child protection actors in humanitarian settings. (Only available in …
This is a 3-page document targeting donors, policy makers, and UN agencies regarding the roles of volunteers and how decision makers can support their roles.
Background:
Child protection actors in humanitarian and development settings have long recognized the role of communities in assisting children affected by violence, abuse, neglect, exploitation, and family separation. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the reliance on community volunteers in particular, as NGO access was severely limited with lockdowns and movement restrictions implemented across the globe. With a deeper…
Background
Community volunteers are an integral part of preventing and responding to cases of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of children in humanitarian settings. They have a deep understanding of their communities, and help to identify children who are at-risk, have experienced harm, or have been separated from their family. However, Child Protection actors often know very little about the experiences of volunteers and particularly the realities of being a volunteer involved in case management.1 Many Child Protection practitioners acknowledge that there is a reliance on the…
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP), the Office of the Head of Local Government Service (OHLGS), with the support of UNICEF and USAID, have embarked on a process of strengthening the social welfare workforce Ghana. The building of the human resource capacity is a key step towards creating a functional, holistic social welfare system and a fundamental component of systems strengthening process. Based on social welfare workforce assessment, a long-term capacity building strategy was developed to assist the Government of Ghana, specifically the OHLGS and MoGCSP to…
Supported by UNICEF, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) and the Office of the Head of Local Government Service (OHLGS) have embarked on a process to strengthen the Ghanaian social welfare workforce. A first step was the completion of a ‘Social Welfare Workforce Capacity Assessment to develop a long-term capacity building strategy for the social welfare service sector in Ghana’ by Maestral International. The assessment identified various barriers to the effective functioning of Ghana’s social service system, which result in social service provision gaps. The…
Conflict (including terrorist attacks) and displacement/forced displacement (to temporary sites or camps deprived of basic services) are the main factors shaping the political context of this region. The security situation is also undermined by the presence of terrorist groups.
Several countries in the region are further disaster-prone (such as is the case in DRC, Liberia, CAR) and subject to serious consequences of climate change on the environment and people’s livelihood. Besides, a sub-set of countries in the region have been or still are affected by the Ebola epidemics (Sierra Leone,…
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After the launch of the Child and Family Welfare Policy (CFWP) in 2015 and the Justice for Children Policy (J4CP) in 2016, the Government of Ghana in collaboration with UNICEF embarked on a workforce strengthening (WFS) initiative in 20 pilot districts. The Initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of the Social Welfare Actors (SWA) to implement the policies, with a focus on the CFWP, using an innovative problem-driven iterative adaptation approach. During 2017 the SWA and allied actors from the pilot districts attended a series of workshops at district,…
Abstract
This article presents the results of a systematic mapping of social work training programs in countries throughout West Africa, a region historically under‐represented in global discussions of the social welfare workforce. The research illuminates how social workers and related professionals are trained to engage in social work practice in a number of West African countries. The research was conducted in two phases. In the initial phase, the research team collected documents from 12 West African countries and conducted phone interviews with relevant individuals. The second phase…
The First International Conference of the Department of Social Work, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, with the theme “Emerging and Contemporary Social Issues: The place of Social Work Education and Practice in Nigeria” was held 10-13 September 2018 and included 96 oral presentations of papers by delegates from across the country. Several papers focused on illegal adoptions of children in Nigeria and the role of social workers in addressing this practice. Papers related to illegal adoptions in Nigeria include the following:
- Social Work Intervention against Illegal Child…