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This document is intended to provide concrete advice on how to put the guiding principles common to most child protection actors into practice. Though cultural traditions and customs may require the advice to be adapted to the specific context, the authors believe that the advice provided is grounded in sufficiently broad experience to guide measures that ensure children under five are not separated when this can be avoided, and, if separated, can be reunited with their families as quickly as possible.
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The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date by far. Ebola Virus Disease causes disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other health crises. This paper combines data on the age distribution of current and projected mortality from Ebola with the fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the number of orphans in these three countries. Using the latest mortality estimates (…
This draft from the Liberian government outlines the protocol and guidelines for responding to children's care issues in the context of Ebola, specifically for the Interim Care Centers for children who have come into contact with Ebola. The draft provides an introduction to the impact of the Ebola epidemic on children’s care in Liberia, stating that UNICEF estimates approximately 2,000 children in Liberia have lost one or both caregivers to the epidemic. Furthermore, there are thousands of other children who are separated from their families because their parents are in treatment or children…
In this article in the magazine Mother Jones, Kathryn Joyce, the author of a recently published book on the issue titled The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption chronicles the rapidly growing evangelical movement for international adoption in the United States since early 2000, and its impact on children and their families, with a particular focus on Liberia. She follows the story of four children adopted by a Tennessee family from Liberia, a country that had just emerged from a 14-year civil war…
Charts that accompany the Mother Jones article Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession by Kathryn Joyce, illustrating the trends in international adoptions from Liberia, Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Haiti to families in the United States.
During 2002, the conflict in Liberia escalated which has resulted in the arrival of more than 50,000 (UNHCR December 2002) Liberian Refugees fleeing to Sierra Leone for safety. While families are fleeing the conflict in Liberia many children have become separated. Currently 502 Liberian children have been identified as separated and are being provided with family tracing and reunification and alternative care services.
This document provides detailed definitions, guidelines, and criteria for the monitoring of three forms of alternative care -- emergency transit booth care,…
This study was a joint initiative between Save the Children UK and Save the Children Alliance. The fieldwork for the study was undertaken during a short and intensive period by two Liberian members of SC UK staff and the CPSC Research Coordinator. Considerable emphasis was placed on the active participation of children and of foster carers throughout the study.
Much of the work with and for separated Sierra Leonean children in the Sinje camps in Liberia results from the initiatives of the refugees themselves, who formed a Child Welfare Committee to undertake a range of child…
"Liberian children are being sold for adoption in dubious circumstances and others are living in sub-standard orphanages, according to rights groups in the West African nation," says this article from the New Humanitarian. "Some institutions, while purporting to help orphans, are charging huge sums of money for adoptions, the National Child Rights Observation Group (NACROG), said in a report this week."
"Many rogue orphanages are 'recruiting' Liberian children from their families and keeping them in appalling conditions in order to increase the aid they receive," according to this article from Red Orbit.
This double edition of the ISS Monthly Review is a brief progress report on the situation of children in need of alternative care or at risk of so being, five years after the Guidelines’ acceptance at the United Nations’ General Assembly. The review highlights brief news on adoption, an overview of alternative care reform in Liberia, a feature on Ebola and alternative care, and an update from Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, entitled “Tracking Progress Initiative – Monitoring the Guidelines’ Implementation” which provides a brief overview of the Tracking Progress …