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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/the Committee), in collaboration with African Union Member States, partner organizations, children and young people, launched the first of its kind Continental Study on Children Without Parental Care (CWPC) in Africa. The study, conducted from 2020 to 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, covered over 43 countries in the five regions of Africa.
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.
Cette évaluation dresse un tableau de la situation en Côte d'Ivoire des enfants handicapés privés de soins parentaux ou risquant d'être séparés de leur famille, ainsi que des options de prise en charge alternative disponibles. Le rapport d'évaluation, qui comprend une série de recommandations, vise à guider les autorités ivoiriennes et acteurs clés à élaborer et à mettre en œuvre des politiques visant à promouvoir le droit des enfants handicapés à vivre en famille.
This assessment provides a picture of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire of children with disabilities deprived of parental care…
Strengthening family-based care is a key policy response to the more than 15 million orphaned and separated children who have lost 1 or both parents in sub-Saharan Africa. This analysis estimated the cost-effectiveness of family-based care environments for preventing HIV and death in this population.
Highlights:
- UNICEF and more than 200 other international organizations endorsed efforts to redirect services toward family-based care as part of the 2019 UN Resolution on the Rights of the Child; yet this study is one of the first to quantify the cost-effectiveness of family-…
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,…