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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…
Georgia’s child welfare reform has made important strides over the past eight years focusing largely on ending harmful child institutionalization. The child welfare reform process that started in 2005 is being implemented by the Government of Georgia with support from the international community and local NGOs. This video by Save the Children highlights some of the issues and the work of its project to support the Government in this reform process.
For the long version (12.54 mins) please click here…
A major ministerial conference on ending the placement of children under three in institutional care was 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 support vulnerable families…
This manual offers a training session targeted at policy makers, professionals and paraprofessionals who are already working on programs to support children without appropriate care, or who may begin work in this area. It is designed as the first stage in a series of capacity building events which will support the development and implementation of improved care and protection systems for vulnerable children.
This workshop focuses on children in developing contexts, who require support within their families and those who need an alternative care placement. It does not address children on…
Last year, UNICEF and the British non-governmental organization EveryChild set up a partnership to help the government find homes for what they call ‘social orphans’ – children living in orphanages who still have one or more parents.
UNICEF’s Representative in Georgia, Giovanna Barberis, says the organization has been pressing for institutional reform for many years and has made great headway at the policy level.
“We wanted to prove to the government that there were socially better environments for children, which were not more expensive than the institutional system,” says Ms. Barberis…
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.
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