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The Parenting Africa Network (PAN) in partnership with YONECO (Youth and Net Counseling) hosted the 2nd Pan-African conference on parenting on the 16-17th October 2013 in Malawi. The theme of the conference was 'Understanding realities of teenage parenting: a special focus on adolescents (boys and girls) with parenting responsibilities'. It is estimated thatroughly 11% of all births worldwide are to girls aged 15 to 19. The proportion of births that take place during adolescence…
Informal kinship care practices are widespread in the West Central Africa region. An estimated 15.8% of children in West Central Africa do not live with their biological parents. However, only a very small number (0.002%) live in formal alternative care (including residential care) while the majority live in informal care alternatives, especially with their extended family in kinship care. A regional Save the Children participatory research initiative 2012-2013 was undertaken to build knowledge on endogenous care practices within families and communities, especially informal kinship…
Cash transfers to households are becoming an increasingly common policy instrument for reducing poverty in some countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Many of today’s cash transfer programs operate as donor-funded pilot studies which are not always modelled at the design stage to estimate their cost and impact on household poverty when run at scale. Basic ‘microsimulation’ tools, widely used in developed economies since the 1960s, are necessary in order to make the calculations needed to model the effects of social welfare reforms or tax reforms, and can also be applied to cash transfer schemes in…
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…
As a result of the rising number of children in need of care, Africa’s adolescents and young adults, ages 12-24, have emerged as the heads of their households and the caregivers of their siblings. This paper shares the philosophy and key components of the African development initiative Giving Hope that works with these youth caregivers. The Giving Hope initiative employs an asset-based empowerment methodology to facilitate the restoration of youth caregivers’ sense of self, belonging, power, and collective responsibility. Evidence of the power of this collective…
The aim of this guide is to draw together SCF’s recent experience of family tracing. It is divided into eleven sections. The first section presents the aims of the guide and methods. It briefly describes family tracing programmes in five countries: Angola, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mozambique and Uganda. The second section provides some historical background and looks at tracing on two different continents.
The Lubuto Library Project is creating quality libraries to serve Africa's most vulnerable children. The goal is to give the burgeoning numbers of vulnerable children the opportunity for non-formal education, improving literacy, language skills, general knowledge and participation in society. At a Lubuto Library, children can read for themselves, look at books or have books read to them, helping them to explore the world and their human heritage.
Construction is nearly complete on the first Lubuto Library, in Lusaka, Zambia. The Lubuto Library Project plans to build 100 libraries across…
Many North American Christians feel compelled to respond to the care and protection needs of children deeply affected by the global AIDS pandemic. This paper provides clear and evidence-based insights into how the Christian community can best direct their efforts.
Institutional care settings (orphanages) are a common response to caring for orphans and at-risk children and youth, but a growing body of global research shows that institutional care presents great social and psychological risks for young children. Among these risks is the reduced ability to form lasting attachments, community…
HIV and AIDS have impacted severely on Africa and its children. The infection rate has risen rapidly and the scale of prevalence is largely unabated. Moreover, the epidemic compounds existing problems that children and families face resulting from decades of exploitation, poverty, civil and regional conflict, and natural disasters. UNAIDS data indicates that Sub-Saharan Africa remains the hardest hit region in the world, with a total of 25 million people living with HIV/AIDS.
Many children in Sub-Saharan Africa, in addition to those who receive most media attention (i.e. orphans, child…
Government leaders, educators, and practitioners are trying to alter the course of the AIDS pandemic through educational programs directed at children. Most respondents in the study claimed that their schools do not teach HIV/AIDS education. A large portion also said they do not have a good understanding of HIV/AIDS. The idea of educational programs within schools was received positively by all parties, including students and adminstrators. There are also suggestions for other intervention mediums in HIV/AIDS education.
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