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Every year, UNICEF showcases quality research and evaluations for children through Best of UNICEF Research and Most Influential Evaluations. For 2020, the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti and the UNICEF Evaluation Office have joined forces to produce a single…
The Global status report on preventing violence against children 2020 charts countries’ progress towards the SDGs aimed at ending violence against children. Jointly published by WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Violence against Children, and the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children, it collates inputs from over 1000 decision-makers in 155 countries who assessed their violence prevention status against the evidence-based approaches set out in INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children.…
This report provides an overview of a February 2020 meeting held in Bellagio, Italy focused on a cross sectoral ‘outside look in’ examination of the issue of children’s care. The meeting was hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation, Daniel Schwartz, and the Miracle Foundation and had a particular emphasis on a future-focused visualization of the enabling environment of care. The idea was to explore how fresh perspectives from different yet relevant vantage points could result in new narratives and new opportunities to pursue cross sectoral collaboration.
The report includes an…
Este informe de RELAF resume las presentaciones y discusiones del Seminario Internacional 2019 de RELAF. Para lograr esta presentación, las ponencias fueron agrupadas por ejes, y de ellas se seleccionaron las ideas principales, avances, desafíos y datos de interés. Así, cada eje constituye un capítulo, donde además se incluyen links a cada presentación de la temática a la que se hace referencia.
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This report from RELAF summarizes the presentations and discussions from RELAF's 2019 International Seminar, "For the right to family and community life. Putting an end to the confinement of children deprived of parental care." In order to put this document together, all presentations have been grouped by theme, with their main ideas, breakthroughs, challenges and data reproduced here. This way, each theme represents a different chapter, and each chapter includes hyperlinks to every presentation mentioned. This document is intended for those who want to better understand the work and…
The Kenya Society of Care Leavers (KESCA), the Uganda Care Leavers (UCL), The Better Care Network and Changing the Way We Care invited policy makers, practitioners, advocates and careleavers to a unique opportunity to listen and learn from two leaders of careleaver associations.
Special guests Ruth Wacuka of the Kenya Society of Care Leavers and Mai Nambooze of Uganda Care Leavers highlighted two recent documents that illustrate the careleaver experience within and outside of care (…
The following report summarizes how UNICEF and its partners have utilized Communication for Development strategies in their work during the period of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan 2014-2017, with an emphasis on 2017. The report captures the impact of these accomplishments on children and the communities where they live. The report also reflects the tapestry of different facets of C4D – ranging from ensuring rights to sharing information, expression and participation to fostering behaviour change, promoting caregiving practices and abandoning harmful practices to achieving empowered communities and…
Abstract : This chapter from the book Modern Day Slavery and Orphanage Tourism highlights promising practice which aims to prevent and reduce the institutionalization of children at two levels: (1) systems and social work strengthening, and (2) family strengthening and gatekeeping. The ultimate goal is to maximize family preservation supported by strong community…
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In words, images, facts and figures, this report details the results that UNICEF achieved in 2018, together with its generous partners and supporters, a dedicated global workforce and children and young people themselves. It also profiles UNICEF’s 2018 advocacy campaigns focused on improving child survival and health, expanding early childhood development programmes, ending violence against children and supporting young migrants and refugees. And it highlights the ways in which UNICEF has lived its core values – care, respect, integrity, accountability and trust – by initiating…
The new UNICEF Guidelines to Strengthen the Social Service Workforce for Child Protection have been developed in close consultation between the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance and UNICEF Headquarters, Regional and Country Offices. They are informed by evidence of ‘what works’ and lessons learned from the field and are designed to accelerate UNICEF regional and country programming to better plan, develop and support the social services workforce with national and regional partners. Social service workforce strengthening is a programme priority for…