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This webinar introduced new global inter-agency guidance on kinship care. This guidance was developed in collaboration with a range of agencies including both UNICEF and Changing the Way We Care. During the webinar, panelists shared key lessons learnt on how to support kinship care, drawing particularly on examples of promising practices from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Liberia, and Brazil.
Government representatives from both Zimbabwe and Liberia were in attendance to share their work on kinship care.
This paper argues that kinship care – the care of children by relatives or friends of the family – represents the greatest resource available for meeting the needs of girls and boys who are orphaned or otherwise live apart from their parents. Using evidence from an in-depth literature review and six country case studies carried out by Family for Every Child members in Ghana, Liberia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Zimbabwe,1 it shows that kinship care is widely used, culturally acceptable, and can support the most vulnerable children in ordinary and crisis periods. However, kinship care also…
Abstract
Globalization of knowledge and scholarship raises the challenges of dialogue between Global North and South. Northern knowledge and voice remain privileged, while writing from the South often goes unread. This is true also in emerging adulthood and care-leaving scholarship. The special issue of Emerging Adulthood titled “Care-Leaving in Africa” is the first collection of essays on care-leaving by African scholars. It presents both care-leaving and emerging adulthood scholars from the Global North a unique opportunity to consider the implications of a rising…
This brief is part of a series of country briefs which aim 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.
This country brief provides an overview of data on children’s living arrangements in Liberia, extracted from the 2013 DHS survey. The brief presents data on who…
This capacity building plan supports the implementation of the Liberian Guidelines for Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living. It establishes clear steps towards the strengthening of social welfare services for vulnerable populations in Liberia. This plan builds upon the on-going effort by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Department of Social Welfare to strengthen its capacity in terms of improving performance and providing quality social welfare services to people in need of care and support, including vulnerable children particularly children…
This “roadmap” document outlines the recommended implementation strategies and activities for strengthening family- and community-based alternative care in Liberia. It accompanies the Guidelines on Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living (the Guidelines) and the Capacity Building Plan to Implement the Guidelines (CBP). The roadmap serves as a resource tool for the Government of Liberia, and its partners, for the protection of children without appropriate care through the development of alternative care, deinstitutionalization and other support services.…
In recent years, the Government of Liberia has made significant advances in strengthening the child protection system, in particular with alternative care. The Guidelines for Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living in Liberia paper has been produced as part of the efforts made to continue this advancement. The Guidelines are intended to provide harmonized national guidance for child welfare practitioners in order to improve the quality of family-based alternative care services in Liberia, particularly for children without appropriate care (CWAC). The Guidelines aim at…
Executive Summary
A KAP survey is a quantitative study of a specific population that collects information on what people know, how they feel, and how they behave in relation to a particular topic. Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) surveys can gather valuable data that may be used to strengthen child protection programme planning and design, advocacy, social mobilisation, assessment and evaluation.
Quantitative data describing people’s knowledge and behaviour related to child protection is critical for understanding the scale of protection issues and providing…
This country care review includes the Concluding Observations for the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted as part of its examination of Liberia's second and fourth periodic reports at the 61st Session of the Committee held between 17 September and 5 October, 2012. The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of Family Environment and Alternative Care as well as other care relevant issues are highlighted.
These Regulations and Tools are designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions, thereby protecting children and providing opportunities for those living in alternative care. They were adopted in 2010 and provide the basis through which the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) will regulate all child welfare institutions, including orphanages and alternative care arrangements such as foster care and kinship.