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This briefing paper draws on data and findings from the Insights into the World of Privatized Faith-Based Residential Care Facilities in Myanmar research report.
Background:
Estimates from 2019 suggested up to 600,000 children were living in Residential Care Facilities (RCFs) across Myanmar, with the vast majority thought to be living in privately run unregistered RCFs, many of which were faith-based. Concerns…
This document - written in English and Burmese - presents guidance on how to ensure continuity of child protection case management service provision during the COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar. It also includes recommendations for appropriate responses to cases associated with the disease.
This guidance - written in English and Burmese - has been designed to ensure the care of children affected by COVID-19 in Myanmar due to either the child or caregiver requiring medical care in the home, community or health facility. It seeks to:
- Guide all actors, especially health actors, in understanding key considerations when it comes to possible family separation
- Guide child protection actors on steps to consider if children or caregivers are at risk of being separated due to COVID-19.
This simple guidance document was developed by the Myanmar Responsible Tourism Institute, Hanns Seidel Foundation, and Myanmar's Ministry of Hotels and Tourism. It offers guidance to those in the tourism sector on how to protect children in institutions. The document defines orphanage tourism and provides an overview of orphanage tourism in Myanmar. The guidance also describes the situation of children in orphanages in Myanmar and the "orphanage myth" that many tourists hold to. The document explains the negative impacts of institutionalization on children and the ways in which…
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…