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Abstract
Institutional care has proven to be detrimental for child development. This study examined the status of the State Program on Deinstitutionalization and Alternative Care (SPDAC), a public policy aimed at transforming 55 institutions covering 14,500 children during 2006–2016 in Azerbaijan. The success of this public policy was crucial for the country's entire child welfare system. The study used a crosssectional, descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative method. Data were collected through in-depth, semistructured interviews and archival resources. Twenty key…
In this video from United Aid for Azerbaijan, several experts and public officials discuss the importance of deinstitutionalization. The video covers the extreme problems of neglect in institutions and discusses attempts by UAFA to re-integrate children with families. The video discusses how Azerbaijan has called in foreign experts to help implement projects to improve the condition of children in institutional care.
In this paper from the Centre for Social Policy Development, United Aid for Azerbaijan, Gwendolyn Burchell asks “How can the obligations of the ‘State Programme on Deinstitutionalization and Alternative Community-Based Services’ be better met through education reform?” The Government of Azerbaijan has enacted a number of State Programmes related to Inclusive Education, DeInstitutionalization and Economic Development. The author argues that these commitments urgently need a coordinated and strategic vision in order to succeed.
Prior to the State…
On 29 March 2006, the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev, signed the State Program on De-Institutionalisation and Alternative Care Services. This program comes at a time when Azerbaijan’s economy is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, and many other related reforms are under-way. There simply is no excuse today to keep children in institutionalized care when alternatives can be developed and families supported through improved wealth re-distribution systems.
The main goal of the Program is ‘to provide the formation and effective operation of the mechanisms of placing…