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This learning brief was developed as part of the CTWWC 2022 annual report and shares learning from Kenya, Guatemala and Moldova. It is intended to help other practitioners understand how to bring meaningful participation of people with lived experience into care reform. By people with lived experience CTWWC considers children and youth, care leavers, parents and other care givers who are experiencing the care system in their context.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming…
This important report documents a 22-month longitudinal study of the reintegration of children in residential care in Moldova. This research was carried out by Partnerships for Every Child, a Moldovan Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), with the support of Family for Every Child. This is part of an overall study – which also examines the reintegration of street children in Mexico and of child domestic workers in Nepal – aims to identify successful elements in strategies to ensure the sustainable reintegration of children without parental…
On the 17th October, Dr. Stela Grigorash, a senior Moldovan child protection expert and the Director of Partnerships for EveryChild Moldova gave a presentation at the USAID/DCOF office in Washington DC, USA, on the important work and lessons learnt in reforming the care system in that country. Just over a decade ago Moldova institutionalized its children at an extremely high rate. Between 2002 and 2012 the country saw a decrease in the percentage of children in residential institutions of over 50%. As a result of the reforms so far, 18 institutions…
On the 17th October, Dr. Stela Grigorash, a senior Moldovan child protection expert and the Director of Partnerships for Every Child Moldova gave a presentation at the USAID/DCOF office in Washington DC, USA, on the important work and lessons learnt in reforming the care system in that country. Just over a decade ago Moldova institutionalized its children at an extremely high rate. Between 2002 and 2012 the country saw a decrease in the percentage of children in residential institutions of over 50%. As a result of the reforms so far, 18 institutions…
This important assessment of foster care services in the Republic of Moldova, conducted for the Government and UNICEF, follows up on the 2012 evaluation of the five-year strategy on care reforms and its findings that despite significant results in the number of children leaving residential care, there were "very few children living in foster care". The very limited use of foster care for children with disabilities and children under the age of three was noted as a particular concern. This assessment provides a comprehensive analysis of the two main types of formal…
This newsletter is the first of three newsletters concerning care reform in Moldova. The Child and Family Magazine was produced by Partnerships for Every Child (P4EC), an NGO in Moldova, with funding from the project, “Protecting children in Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation,” which is funded by USAID/DCOF. In addition to deinstitutionalization and other care reform work in the three raions (districts) of Calarasi, Falesti, and Ungheni, the project is also working at a national level on laws, policies, and procedures regarding child…
According to official data, the number of children in need of social protection is on the increase in Moldova. Along with traditional categories of children at risk or in difficulty, new categories have emerged such as “social orphans”, children left without parental care and supervision in the community due to migration-out, street children, children which do not go to school, children which are victims of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation (including trafficking), children in conflict with the law, and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
A significant number of children in…