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Plan International Cambodia is implementing child protection programs across target provinces (Siem Reap, Tboung Khmum, Stung Treng, and Ratanak Kiri). The child protection program aims at ‘Girls and boys of all ages, especially the most marginalized are protected from violence, abuse and neglect.’ The purpose of this study is to better understand how gender inequality impacts the Community Based Child Protection Mechanisms, its child clubs and caregiver groups and how programming should be targeted to being gender transformative – changing social norms that promote gender inequality.
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Presented at the UN Human Rights Council side event on Promoting Quality Alternative Care for Children with Disabilities on 5 March 2019, this video highlights the work of ABLE, a program of the Cambodian NGO Children in Families that provides inclusive family-based care for children with disabilities.
This video is part of a series of practitioner learning videos from Cambodia.
A better understanding of community concerns and community-based child protection mechanisms can inform the development of national child protection systems in terms of identifying strategies for improved information systems, surveillance and response. The study described in this report set out to identify and systematically learn about the functioning of existing community-based child protection mechanisms in Aceh, Indonesia. For purposes of this research, the goal was to learn deeply about how local people understand children, harms to children, and existing community mechanisms for…
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Indonesia is building a child protection system where primary preventions aim to support families and intervention is based on community-based care options rather than the current reliance on institutional care. Social work has been identified as the lead profession in this structural change. This requires social work to be better recognized as a profession in Indonesian society. This article outlines exploratory research in establishing a role for social work in child protection in Indonesia. Key learning outlines the need for global collaboration and the need for an indigenous…
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This study employed a correlational design and examined the extent to which four components of quality of care (including food security, quality of shelter, quality of caregiving, and access to health care services) predicted psychosocial well-being of orphaned and separated children (OSC), as well as the extent to which these components of quality of care and key demographic factors, such as age, gender, and orphan status moderated the associations between care settings and psychosocial well-being of OSC. This study was an extension of Whetten et al.’s 2009 study that found…
This Study Brief provides a brief snapshot of the findings from a study of the functionality of Commune Committees for Women and Children (CCWCs) in Cambodia. The study found that most CCWCs surveyed were minimally functional, but that they have begun moving beyond their mandate as a coordination and referral mechanism, towards taking responsibility for delivering child protection services themselves. However, due to CCWCs’ limited technical capacity, these services were often inadequate, which could potentially result in placing children at continued risk.
This animated video describes Indonesia's Families First Signature Program which began in 2005. The goal of Families First is to ensure that every child in Indonesia has a safe, family environment, recognizing that family-based care is best for child development. The video describes how the Signature Program has helped shift care away from institutions towards family-based care.
Research strongly suggests that children are best served by care that is as safe, nurturing and as close to family as is feasible for the given situation. Many care organizations that have long served children in large scale residential settings desire to shift decisively toward family-based solutions. However, transitioning from residential care to family-based care can be difficult, even intimidating. The organizations profiled in these case studies have pioneered effective transitions from residential to family-based care. For these studies, they have generously shared from their…
This assessment examines shelter and community-based care models for victims of trafficking in Cambodia, and explores the best practices of service providers. It identifies gaps and challenges in support for survivors of trafficking, including children, and provides recommendations for improving services.
This Handbook produced by Save the Children aims to provide guidance, primarily for Save the Children staff, NGO partners, Community Child Protection Groups and community volunteers in Myanmar, although the authors hope that it will also be used by responsible government bodies. It is based on the outcome of a workshop organized by Save the Children in Yangon, May 2013 and is informed by the international Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (2009). It clarifies that the intention of the Handbook is not to formalise kinship…