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This is the Armenian language version of the report.
The Armenian Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (MOLSA), with funding and technical assistance from the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and MEASURE Evaluation, conducted a self-assessment of the care reform system at a participatory stakeholder workshop held January 17–19, 2018, at the Tsakhkadzor Hotel Russia, in Armenia. The purpose of the assessment workshop was to bring together key stakeholders—decision makers, policy developers, service providers,…
The Child Protection Index (the Index) is a comparative policy tool, organised and implemented by local and national level civil society organisations, that examines a country’s current child protection system using a common set of 626 indicators that measure a country’s policy and actions toward greater child protection. The index evaluates each national government’s actions through the lenses of policy, service delivery, capacity, accountability and coordination. The index does not measure the wellbeing of children in each country directly, instead, focusing on policies, investments, and…
The Transitions from Care to Adulthood International Research group (INTRAC), formed in 2003, produced a mapping publication, which analyzed data from 16 countries, including the postcommunist states of Hungary and Romania. The unique situations, reforms, and challenges of alternative care in these two states prompted further investigation and a second mapping publication, produced by SOS Children’s Villages International, focused on Eastern European and Central Asian postcommunist societies. This study compares the data from 9 non-communist European countries examined in the INTRAC document…
A major ministerial conference on ending the placement of children under three in institutional carewas held in Sofia, Bulgaria on 21 and 22 November 2012. Organized by the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria in collaboration with UNICEF, it brought together representatives of twenty governments from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, experts from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, international and local NGOs and the academic world to discuss strategies and emerging good practices to…
Through a comprehensive statistical analysis and literature review, this UNICEF report provides a child rights-based up-to-date review of the situation of children under the age of three in formal care in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CEECIS). It examines regional and country level trends in the use of institutional care and family based alternative care options, in particular foster care.
While major progress has been achieved in the reform of childcare systems in the CEECIS region…
When country reports for the 2002 UN Special Session on Children were reviewed, a startling pattern emerged in the CEE/CIS: reported rates of disability among children had doubled, tripled and more during the decade following the collapse of communism. UNICEF set out to investigate the causes of this dramatic increase. This report is a result of that inquiry. It is a first attempt to pull together and analyse data on children with disabilities on a region-wide basis. The portrait that has emerged is somewhat patchy, due largely to data limitations, but it is still compelling. For one,…
This document emphasizes that children belong in families and communities, and that placing any child in an institution should be the very last resort. Institutionalisation – no matter how well intentioned – hinders intellectual, physical, emotional and social development. The younger the child and the longer the time spent in institutions, the greater the damage. Children in institutions are deprived of the opportunities to develop their potential, and in many cases, they are deprived of their most fundamental rights.
This document urges a shift in focus from institutions to support…