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The WHO South-East Asia Regional Office in collaboration with UNICEF organized a 3-day virtual meeting from 27 to 29 April, 2021. The meeting brought together over 100 participants from WHO-SEAR countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka , Thailand and Timor-Leste) and two countries from UNICEF-ROSA (Afghanistan Pakistan). Participants included government delegates from relevant ministries (health, nutrition, education, child protection, women and child affairs), WHO and UNICEF staff and partners.
On Day 1, participants reflected on progress to date…
This country care review includes the care related Concluding Observations adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Committee’s recommendations on the issues relevant to children's care are highlighted, as well as other care-related concluding observations, ratification dates, and links to the Universal Periodic Review and Hague Intercountry Adoption Country Profile.
This report presents the findings of a mappings and assessments review of child protection systems in 14 countries including Cambodia. The principal purpose of the study was to consolidate existing information on the shared strengths, challenges and priorities for developing and strengthening child protection systems in the region that will better safeguard children from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Key observations of each country’s child protection system were made: from what influences development to awareness of the cultural and social contexts that frame…
INTRODUCTION
This mapping and assessment is being conducted at an appropriate time. After ten years, it is important to review the framework for the child protection system, to consider whether the blueprint is designed with a clear vision and if the system is implementable and sustainable.
Globally, there has been growing recognition of the need to progress beyond issuespecific, responsive programmes towards a more integrated and systems-based approach to preventing and protecting children from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation. This includes ensuring that…
This presentation was given at the Alternative Care Workshop in Bangkok in November 2005. It provides an overview of the situation of children without parental care in Timor-Leste and the child welfare system in the country, including residential/institutional care and adoption.
This document includes practical and professional paperwork for residential care including registration and assessment forms, application for renewal of licenses, referral forms, and emergency admission forms. Can be modified for different country contexts. While these forms may prove useful to organizations and governments seeking to provide oversight to residential institutions, they are not comprehensive. The forms do not sufficiently emphasize the need to collect regular information regarding each child in the care system, or the need to review each child's case regularly, with the aim of…
The Division of Social Services under the Secretariat of Labour and Solidarity has developed the Policy and Procedures for Child Care Centres and Boarding Houses. This process was assisted by wide consultation with users and service providers including staff of Child Care Centres, Boarding Houses, Government, NGOs, UNICEF and the children themselves. The consultation was a combination of individual interviews, visits to institutions and workshops. As a result the Policy and Procedures have been developed with attention to the views of users and service providers. …
Richard Daschbach, a now-defrocked 84-year-old US priest has been charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls in the shelter he ran in Timor-Leste. This article tells the story of one of the young women who spoke out about the abuse she experienced.
UNICEF is seeking a consultant to provide technical support to the Timor-Leste Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion through the Child Protection Officers, for emergency preparedness and response in the COVID 19 pandemic for children living in institutional care, primarily related to case management and registration process.
WORK ASSIGNMENT
1. Conduct general mapping of residential care facilities
2. Revised, develop or adapt supportive materials and tools for registration and monitoring of children in residential and case…
UNICEF is seeking a consultant in Timor-Leste. The consultant will provide technical guidance and assistance to the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion to conduct a mapping of social services in order to develop a road map for professionalizing social work in the country. Consultant's specific tasks include:
- Conduct a review on existing social services delivery system (including legal frameworks) and social service workforces in the country
- Conduct mapping on the social service delivery system and the social service workforces
- Conduct consultation…