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El estudio fue orientado al conocimiento de buenas prácticas en la transformación de servicios de cuidado residencial a familiar y comunitarios de la niñez y adolescencia en Guatemala. Los aportes de y reflexiones del personal de los hogares de protección públicos y privados contribuyeron a crear un espacio de puesta en común, apoyando la búsqueda de información para conocer las buenas prácticas que se están implementando en estos hogares en la promoción y restitución del derecho de los niños, niñas y adolescentes a vivir en un entorno familiar, seguro y sostenible y que responda a su Interés…
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have predicted that the social and economic effects of the ongoing pandemic will have a significant impact on the well-being of families with children and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, children and adolescents were already a highly vulnerable population group, suffering a higher incidence of poverty than other age groups and affected by numerous inequalities in various dimensions. Not only does the current emergency threaten…
The aim of this report from SOS Children's Villages is to increase the knowledge and understanding of the needs and rights of young people ageing out of alternative care around the world, in order to inform strategies, policies and services to improve their life chances and outcomes through appropriate preparation for leaving care as well as after-care support. The specific objectives of the research were to highlight facts and figures (or in some cases, lack thereof) on the experiences and challenges of young people leaving care, including through their own voice and the testimony of experts…
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Children make up half of the world’s refugees, yet limited research documents the views of youth about migratory causes and recommendations. While there is wide recognition of migrant children’s right to free expression, few opportunities exist to productively exercise that right and provide input about their views. This article analyzes the responses of Central American and Mexican migrant children to one interview question regarding how to help youth like themselves, and identifies several implied “no-win” situations as potential reasons for the migration decisions of…
From Intercountry Adoption to Global Surrogacy: A Human Rights History and New Fertility Frontiers tackles the constantly changing landscape of intercountry adoption. Extracting on chronologic data, this book discusses the politics and practice of intercountry adoption starting with the state of international adoption to in the 1950s continuing to present-day adoption practice and protections. Chapters include: 1) Rescue, refugees, orphans and restitution; 2) The politics of adoption from Romania to Russia and what we know about children languishing in residential care…
The report documents the baseline study of institutions that provide care and shelter to institutionalized children and adolescents in Guatemala and helped determine the state of children and adolescents that live in those institutions. The following specific objectives were developed in order to achieve the general objective:
- To identify the number of institutions that provide care to institutionalized children and adolescents, the locations of these homes as well as their technical capacity, infrastructure and access to care resources.
- To determine the main…
Through a recent country study and their cash transfer research programme, The International Poverty Centre published The Challenges of El Salvador’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Red Solidaria. The report documents the experiences in El Salvador where we see family support services and outreach incorporated in the cash transfer programme. The integrated approach of the conditional cash transfer programme combines cash transfers with co-responsibilities in health and education as well as other components. The paper documents the El Salvadoran experiences…
Recent consultations undertaken by the ILO in Kenya, the Philippines and Guatemala have confirmed that there is little awareness about child labour issues among indigenous peoples; that previous child labour studies and research largely ignore indigenous communities; and that few programmes and projects address indigenous child labour.
It has, however, also become increasingly clear that indigenous children are disproportionately affected by the worst forms of child labour. Specific approaches are needed to effectively combat child labour among indigenous peoples.
The following…
Several developing economies have recently introduced conditional cash transfer programs, which provide money to poor families contingent on certain behavior, usually investments in human capital, such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers. Evaluation results for programs launched in Colombia, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Turkey reveal successes in addressing many of the failures in delivering social assistance, such as weak poverty targeting, disincentive effects, and limited welfare impacts. Many questions remain unanswered, however, including the…
Conditional cash transfers are a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance that represents an innovative and increasingly popular channel for the delivery of social services. Conditional cash transfers provide money to poor families contingent upon certain behavior, usually investments in human capital such as sending children to school or bringing them to health centers on a regular basis. They seek both to address traditional short-term income support objectives, as well as to promote the longer-term accumulation of human capital by serving as a demand-side complement…