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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…
Abstract
Côte d’Ivoire has one of the highest adult HIV prevalence rates in West Africa; HIV has directly affected an estimated 440,000 orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). Some support programs use community caregivers (CC) to provide care and support to children left vulnerable by the epidemic. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact that the use of a CC service provision model had on outcomes for children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in Côte d’Ivoire. A sequential mixed-methods design was used, making use of both quantitative (survey) and qualitative (focus…
This research was focused on the population of children who fled war in their own country (Côte d’Ivoire or Liberia) and are now living with a foster family in rural Guinea. A team of researchers spent sixteen days in a randomly selected location near the Ivorian border and searched for such children.
The study found that there is likely a large population of informally resettled refugee children living with local families. In this community, informal settlement appears to be working, as there is an impressive child protection capacity in the area. All children…
The devastating consequences of HIV/AIDS on African societies, and its particular impact on children, is requiring every organisation involved in fighting the epidemic to find new strategies to address adequately both the scale of the problem and its duration. The crisis of children left behind by AIDS is a humanitarian, development and human rights challenge of unprecedented proportions.
Although there have been substantial gains in improving overall child survival, these gains are being eroded in African countries hardest hit by the epidemic. The scale of the epidemic on this…