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This is a poster for Child Protection teams to emphasize the evidence based practices of engaging volunteers that were documented in the research.
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- 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 …
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Family constitutes more than simple living arrangements, and these systems are of pivotal development importance in sub-Saharan Africa. The diversity of family structures and types in sub-Saharan Africa has warranted an examination of the various policies and laws in the region. This paper examines all policy and laws related to families in the South, West, East and Central regions of sub-Saharan Africa. The paper highlights the sundry of policies and laws that are influenced by cultural and religious differences within and across regions. Issues relating to patriarchy and…
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Article 3 of the United Nations on the Rights and Welfare of Children provides that in all matters concerning children, the consideration of the best interest of the child must be primary. Placement of children must therefore be child-centred. The increasing use of child adoption as a management strategy for infertility results into creating a wide gap between the demand for child adoption and the available adoptable children. This raises a concern over the management of adoption request, particularly in ensuring the best interest of the child…
Le 1er avril 2017, Terre des Hommes (TdH), ENDA et le Mouvement Africain des Enfants et Jeunes Travailleurs (MAEJT) ont lancé le Projet pour la Protection des Enfants Migrants le long du Corridor Abidjan-Lagos (CORAL), soit dans les cinq pays suivants : Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Bénin et Nigeria. L'objectif principal du projet CORAL est de renforcer les services de protection de l'enfance pour les enfants migrants et les enfants concernés par la migration, en améliorant l'accès à ces services, en renforçant les services existants, en créant de nouveaux services et en aidant à l'intégration…
On April 1st 2017, Terre des hommes (Tdh), ENDA and the African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) began the Project for the Protection of Migrant children along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor (CORAL) in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. CORAL’s core purpose is to strengthen child protection services for migrant children and children affected by migration, including increasing access to those services, reinforcing existing services, creating new ones, and stimulating synergies between the formal and the informal actors. The present document constitutes the baseline report…
Child Migrants Along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor (CORAL)’s core purpose is to strengthen child protection services for migrant children and children affected by migration, including increasing access to those services, reinforcing existing services, creating new ones, and stimulating synergies between the formal and the informal actors. This research brief is based on a baseline study carried out in the first phase of the project to help identify situated approaches to implementation, drawing evidence from all five countries but aiming for locally specific actions and solutions. The brief…
Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
This infographic was shared by the Country Core Team from Ghana who presented at a workshop in London in September 2017, facilitated by MEASURE Evaluation, funded and supported by DCOF/USAID and focused on moving forward alternative care reform in Ghana, Uganda, Armenia and Moldova.
The infographic provides a historical timeline of the alternative care reform process in Ghana, marking key achievements in the establishment of policies, guidelines, procedures,…
CHAPTER 1: Introduction
Countries throughout the world have begun to systematically reform their child protection systems (CPS). This process has involved moving from an issue/response approach towards the creation of a protective environment and strengthening the CPS. The Federal Government of Nigeria decided in 2010 to be part of this global and regional initiative. As such Lagos State decided to be part of a pilot test to map and assess the existing components of the system. Child Frontiers was recruited to undertake the mapping and assessment of the current CPS in Lagos State.…
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Countries throughout the world have begun to systematically reform their child protection systems. This process has involved moving from an issue/response approach towards the creation of a protective environment and strengthening the child protection system (CPS). 1 The Federal Government of Nigeria decided in 2010 to be part of this global and regional initiative. As such Lagos State decided to be part of a pilot test to map and assess the existing components of the system. Child Frontiers was recruited to undertake the mapping and assessment of the current CPS…