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The present analysis has been developed by the UNICEF Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States as a discussion paper for the 2nd Child Protection Forum on Building and Reforming Child Care Systems. It relied heavily on an independent evaluation commissioned by UNICEF in 2007 which was carried out by Oxford Policy Management and is also informed by the official submissions of Governments on recent changes in child care reform.
The countries of Central Asia and Azerbaijan reviewed in this analysis (…
A Model for Assessing Social Care Services for Children: Lessons from Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) declares that, ‘the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment’. Many parties to the Convention are reforming their child welfare system so that children in difficulty have a better chance of staying in a family. For many former Soviet republics this represents a major shift in approach. A Model for Assessing Social Care Services for Children: Lessons from Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan documents model for assessing the status of child care reform and…
In this context, the Child Protection section of the RO for CEE/CIS organized a seminar between the 29 and 30 September in connection to the annual Regional Management Team meeting (RMT). The aim was to clarify how one area of child protection concerns in the CEE/CIS region, namely de-institutionalisation of child protection approaches, is linked to a broader agenda of social policy reform. It was argued that social policy reform that is based on the principles of human rights, has a set of components which contribute to building a protective environment for children in the region.
Hence,…