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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…
In Azerbaijan, internally displaced persons, refugee children, and asylum seekers are forced to bear the consequences of traumatic exposure to an armed conflict.
This report is a first analytical draft of the emerging protection problems for children in Azerbaijan, as seen from the perspectives of both service providers and service beneficiaries. The objectives of this report are to draft a map of the institutional system related to child welfare, and to identify the priority protection needs of children in Azerbaijan.
The first part of the report lists the levels of governance and the…