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A child’s care status impacts his or her health, developmental outcomes and general well-being, both during childhood and later in life. Children outside of a family setting are more likely than their family-based peers to experience abuse, neglect, exploitation, lack of stimulation, poor nutrition and toxic stress, with lifelong physical and psychological repercussions. Moreover, children living in institutional settings are frequently missing from official statistics since reporting for many indicators, particularly those that comprise global monitoring frameworks such as the Sustainable…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY International volunteering is widely understood to have originated primarily in Western Europe, specifically the United Kingdom, before the trend expanded to other parts of the world with similar demographics, for example Australia and the United States. Today, significant anecdotal evidence suggests that other countries across Europe also make a considerable contribution to the supply chain of people, money and resources that continue to sustain and foster the orphanage industry worldwide. However, there is a lack of data available to accurately assess the extent of…
In this webinar presented by RISE Learning Network, Omattie Madray and Zenainda Rosales presented an extensive study recently carried out which analyzed over 100 documents and conducted over 20 interviews to gain insights on practices of organizations supporting and caring for boys affected by sexual violence in their recovery process. They looked into how social norms around gender influence care for boys affected and discussed what is needed to ensure quality alternative care.
This infographic was shared by the Country Core Team from Ghana who presented at a workshop in London in September 2017, facilitated by MEASURE Evaluation, funded and supported by DCOF/USAID and focused on moving forward alternative care reform in Ghana, Uganda, Armenia and Moldova.
The infographic provides a historical timeline of the alternative care reform process in Ghana, marking key achievements in the establishment of policies, guidelines, procedures,…
The report ‘Mapping of residential care facilities in the capital and 24 provinces of the kingdom of Cambodia’ was released by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation in April 2017. UNICEF provided technical support and USAID provided financial support to the Ministry to conduct the study. The mapping significantly advances the current knowledge of the state of institutionalization of Cambodian children. For the first time, evidence- based data is providing MoSVY with practical information that details where the facilities are and how many children live in them,…
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This desk review is part of a wider study commissioned to SOS Children’s Villages International by the European Commission. The overall study aims to map the issue of alternative care and deinstitutionalization in countries in Asia, South and Central America, and Africa. It also seeks to increase the evidence on child protection, alternative care and deinstitutionalization and on how this can be addressed, in order to potentially inform future initiatives in these continents, at country or regional level.
The study comprises three continental desk reviews…
While the evidence on the detrimental effects orphanages have on children continues to grow, Australians have continued to make contributions to the international orphanage industry and the perpetuation of the institutionalization of children, says this report from ReThink Orphanages. The report “seeks to map Australia’s contribution to residential care institutions for children overseas across a number of sectors and identify opportunities for strategic engagement with various stakeholders in the Australian context.” The report presents data on Australia’s participation in the orphanage…
The second half of the twentieth century saw a considerable expansion in intercountry adoption. There is, however, considerable growing concern about the number of practices which do not respect the interests of the children, child trafficking being the most alarming. Such practices include the buying and selling of children, where the money spent on these transactions does not correspond to the professional services required in adoption procedures, as well as illegal practices such as faked documents, lack of respect for laws and regulations, pressure put upon parents and authorities in the…
Little in the literature helps us identify programs that are successful in achieving lasting reunification of children in out-of-home care with their families. Much of the research has looked at characteristics of children and families that help or hinder reunification, but not at whether children are able to remain in their homes over time, or what their long-term outcomes are in safety and well-being (Littell & Schuerman, 1995; Maluccio, 1998; Wulczyn, 2004).
The U.S. National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning (NRCFCPP) has worked with some programs that seem to…