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This country care review includes the Concluding Observations for the Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted as part of its examination of Sao Tome and Principe’s combined second to fourth periodic reports at the 64th Session of the Committee held between 16 September to 4 October 2013. The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of Family Environment and Alternative Care as well as other care relevant issues are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child as part of its examination of the combined second to fourth periodic report of the Congo under Convention on the Rights of the Child at its sixty-fifth Session (13 Jan 2014 - 31 Jan 2014). The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of Family Environment and Alternative Care as well as other care relevant issues are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic…
Representatives from International Social Service, Save the Children, and SOS Children’s Villages met with the African Committee on Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child during its 21st session on 15 April, 2013 to present on the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (UNGA resolution A/RES/64/142) and its new implementation Handbook “Moving Forward.” The presentation included a brief introduction to the Guidelines; an overview of the core principles of the Guidelines; a description of the need for, and development of, the handbook; a summary of the handbook…
The Minimum Package is a guide to encourage the harmonizing of service delivery for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and Youth (OVCY) across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Member States can adopt or adapt these standards and guidelines at the national level. The Minimum Package identifies the basic needs of children and youth and the services they require as well as complementing services needed to deliver basic services. It also identifies the primary and secondary sectors and actors that can respond and how their services can be delivered in a coordinated,…
There is a growing interest in applying the systems approach to strengthening child protection efforts. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the systems approach shifts attention to a larger systemic framework that includes legal and policy contexts, institutional capacity, community contexts, planning, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation subsystems. This paper is a response to the increasing need for agreement on approaches and documented evidence of good practices consistent with system strengthening work.
The purpose of the Inter-Agency Working Paper is to…
This study sought to assess, analyse and inform the different forms of vulnerabilities affecting children and youth, and their effects and existing strategies and programmes addressing the challenges and vulnerabilities facing orphans, vulnerable children and youth (OVCY) in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region. The study also sought to propose recommendations for improvement, and development of minimum standards for OVCY and the finalisation of the SADC OVCY Strategic Framework.
African governments have an impressive record in their formal accession to the relevant child-focused international treaties. But the extent of their commitment to children’s issues varies widely, and the gap between promises and reality remains wide in many countries. Why is this so? How well are African governments doing in meeting their national and international obligations? Which governments are doing well and which ones are not? How do countries rank in relation to each other? What is it that is right that child-friendly governments are doing, which poorly-performing countries can…
WHAT: This guide is based on the standards set out in Raising the Standards (Save the Children, 2005). It presents lessons from the experiences of five agencies in implementing the childcare standards and assessing their effectiveness.
WHO: Childcare agencies, managers, and social and community workers.
WHERE: This document focuses on five agencies in East and Central Africa, however the learning has global relevance.
WHY: Provides case studies and guidance on implementing…
This document contains an updated list of literature and bibliographies concerning children and families affected by HIV/AIDS around the world. Resource topics include education, child headed households, care for children and families, community mobilization and capacity building, socio-economic impact and microeconomic response, evaluation and assessment, costing interventions and national response, situational analysis, law and policy, psychosocial issues, scaling-up and older care providers. Most of the resources are focused on sub-Saharan Africa.
In many of the childcare institutions and other forms of care provision, the quality of provision is below a standard, which would ensure the protection and guidance necessary for a minimum level of child development. Fundamental to the poor quality of care is a lack of acknowledgement or understanding of the nature of care necessary or acceptable, in non-family care services. This is despite an increased awareness of and intention to support children’s rights on the part of individuals, NGOs and governments.
The following set of indicators are intended to guide SC (UK)…