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This country care review includes the care-related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities during the seventeenth session (20 March 2017 - 12 April 2017) of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as part of its examination of the first periodic report of Azerbaijan under Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at its 125th and 126th meetings, held on 1 and 2 April 2014, respectively. The Committee’s recommendations on the issue of children and institutionalisation are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review…
Since 2005, the government of Georgia has made incredible progress in the area of child care reform. Guided by the National Child Action Plan (CAP) 2008-2011, the government of Georgia began the process of ending the use of large institutions in the country. A specific plan of action covering 2011-2012, was further developed and implemented. Gatekeeping policies were introduced nation-wide and a child care coordination council involving relevant line ministries, NGOs and key donors has been established to facilitate and monitor the process.
The key objectives of the child care reform were…
EveryChild is an international development charity working in 17 countries with a strategic focus on children without parental care. This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights. It also provides principles for good practice in trying to reduce the number of children without parental…
An outline of the processes involved in creating and maintaining a childcare organization, including creating a charter, protection of child rights, placement, care, health, education, reunification and monitoring.
WHAT: Standards for shelters and care providers responding to children who have been trafficked. It gives guidance and practice examples of intake procedures, interim and longer term care, support services, integration and reunification.
WHO: Policy makers, government authorities, law enforcement, social and community workers, caregivers, shelter/institution managers and staff involved in the protection and recovery of child victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation and abuse.
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This report, prepared for the Social Transition Team of the USAID Bureau for Europe and Eurasia (E&E), is the result of a study of promising practices in community-based care for vulnerable groups conducted in five countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Romania, and Russia) in the E&E Region between September 2004 and March 2005. Of particular interest is how these countries are moving from residential care to family-focused, community care models utilizing internationally recognized standards for children and youth, elderly, disabled, and minority groups (with an emphasis on Roma…
The reforms undertaken during the transition to a market economy have had an uneven and divergent social impact on the countries within the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It is now recognized by governments in many parts of the region that the policy of using institutional care for children with welfare needs is both ineffective and expensive. Despite reforms, the quality of care within institutions and in the new community- based services is still inconsistent and in many cases does not meet the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The…
In response to the challenge of family and child welfare system reform in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States, the World Bank and UNICEF teamed up in the project “Changing Minds, Policies and Lives”. The purpose of this joint initiative was to develop knowledge and tools for family and child welfare policy makers and practitioners in the region. The products of the joint work are published in this three volume publication, each containing concept papers and tools addressing essential components of the system reform, namely decision…