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This article explores care leavers’ views and recommendations for practitioners and policymakers on the transition from leaving care to living independently in the community.
Seven young adults fully reintegrated through programmes in Kathmandu, Nepal, co-produced action research with 21 of their peers (aged 16–26 years). This article outlines how children and young people affected by child sexual exploitation experience community reintegration, and their views on the key issues reintegration services need to consider.
Findings explored boys’ and girls’ experiences of stigma…
The alarming prevalence of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) across the globe demands scrutinization of the present mechanisms in place to protect children from abuse. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child acknowledges that the family is the natural environment for the development and well-being of children. However, historically, children throughout South Asia have suffered homelessness, neglect and deprivation due to factors such as broken homes, lack of financial resources, physical and sexual abuse, and the age-old tradition of migrating parents in search of a better life,…
As India recovers from the second wave of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it has resulted in a severe impact on children and families. According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, GoI, 577 children have been orphaned since May 2021. The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has shared that over 9,3000 children have lost parents or have been abandoned since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
In the backdrop of deaths in families, extended periods of shutdown and loss of employment opportunities, the pandemic has pushed families to the…
This paper accompanies the Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, a report from ECPAT. The paper provides an overview of international volunteering, or “voluntourism,” and its potential to create opportunities for child sexual exploitation, particularly in residential care centres. The paper presents case studies of child sexual abuse in residential care centres (“orphanages”) in Nepal and Kenya, as well as some promising practices in addressing this issue around the world.
This document reviews UNICEF’s achievements in ensuring children’s protection in the 6 weeks following the devastating earthquakes in Nepal in 2015.
This report from Family for Every Child and partners summarises research on children’s reintegration that took place in Mexico, Moldova and Nepal from 2011 to 2014. The purpose of this research was to explore the experience and process of reintegration of separated boys and girls in a variety of contexts, speaking to children, their families and other stakeholders at different stages of the reintegration process. In total, 83 children were spoken to across the three contexts. These children included those in institutional care (Moldova), those living in small-scale residential care following…
This report documents a study of the reintegration of child domestic workers in Nepal. The research was carried out by a Nepali non-governmental organisation – CWISH – with the support of the international network Family for Every Child. This study is part of a larger three-country study, which examines the reintegration of street children in Mexico and children in residential care in Moldova. The overall aim is to identify successful elements in strategies to ensure the sustainable reintegration of children without parental care by examining the reintegration process from its initial…
Barn is a magazine about children’s rights published by Save the Children Sweden with four issues per year. This issue is focused on the role of fathers in children’s wellbeing and development. Articles in this issue include a piece on challenging gender roles in Nepal, interviews with children from around the world on what makes a good father, and a look at the “many absent fathers” in South Africa and a fatherhood group that seeks to address this issue. The magazine issue concludes with a final word from Elisabeth Dahlin, Secretary General of Save the Children Sweden, on the importance of…
This article provides a case study of a project to improve the health, safety, and development of children birth to 6 years old in a large orphanage in Nepal. Two interventions were conducted: improvement of physical infrastructure and training, mentoring, and support for caregiving staff. As a result of these interventions, positive outcomes in terms of children's health and development have been observed, including reduction of communicable diseases and increased social interactions with caregivers. As part of the new trainining initiative, the caregivers began to meet regularly to share…
Save the Children Sweden, Regional Office for South and Central Asia and UNIFEM, South Asia Regional Office came together in Kathmandu, Nepal on 17-19 October 2005 to capacitate twenty four development professionals from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sweden to equip men and boys to become more caring, attentive and gender sensitive fathers and husbands, in turn helping themselves, their families and the society at large.
This report presents a background and rationale as to why it is important to engage men and fathers in caregiving, an overview of work being done within the…