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Family for Every Child's new Participatory Evaluation Toolkit places the knowledge and experience of local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at its centre. It offers an alternative to traditional evaluation dynamics, by drawing on the strength of local solutions.
Guidance and tools for participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) have been developed to support local CSOs to build evidence of their promising practices, in a way that works for them, and contributes to the body of effective and transformative practice within the children’s rights sector.…
Introduction
This section of the toolkit provides guidance on the issues to consider when planning and designing community engagement. It focuses on quality and effectiveness, process planning and designing engagement tailored to the particular issue, level of participation to be achieved, timeframe and range of stakeholders affected.
Planning and Designing Community Engagement
Community engagement works best where it is an ongoing cumulative process enabling relationships and trust to build and strengthen over time. Individual engagement events should be planned and designed…
Building a system to care for vulnerable children and families starts with community mapping. Community mapping is a process of identifying and cataloguing who is doing what in a given geographical area. It allows us to identify key stakeholders, learn about currently available services, pinpoint gaps in services, and facilitate collaboration. This document provides guidance on how to conduct a community mapping.
Read the Spanish version here.
This guidance is for Save the Children staff and partners already running Interim Care Centres (ICCs) during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interim care is defined as care arranged for a child on a temporary basis of up to 12 weeks. The placement may be formal or informal with relatives, foster carers or in residential care such as an Interim Care Centre (ICC). This guidance covers all children in need of emergency interim care during the Covid-19 pandemic, this includes:
- children who are not suspected of being sick,
- children in need of quarantine and
- …
This document outlines some of the potential risks children face in Interim Care Centres and suggests how to manage them to ensure that children are as safe as possible.
Introducción
Uno de los mayores contribuyentes a la vulnerabilidad de los niños en todo el mundo es la separación del amor, cuidado y protección de su familia. La pérdida del cuidado de los padres tiene muchas causas. Para los millones de niños de todo el mundo que han estado o están en riesgo de estar separados de sus familias debido a la pobreza, la enfermedad, la discapacidad, el abuso o cualquier otra causa, no existen soluciones simples o “una única solución para todos”. Sin embargo, hay un creciente cuerpo de investigación y orientación basada en la evidencia para informar a los…
Introduction
This resource – a companion to Children, Orphanages, and Families: a Summary of Research to Help Guide Faith-based Action – is provided as a working bibliography of key research and evidence-based policy papers on the care of orphans and other vulnerable children separated from parental care.
Most of the documents in this bibliography are recent research studies,…
Summary
In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 37/20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides an overview of the legal framework and practical measures to empower children with disabilities. She focuses on empowerment through participation and inclusive education, and analyses how to foster the personal and public decision-making of children with disabilities, their inclusion in the community and their protection from abuse, exploitation and violence. The High Commissioner concludes the report with a number of recommendations to…
The MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change global competition for a $100 million grant brought together the four finalists to deliver presentations on their proposed projects at '100&Change: The Finalists Live in Chicago.' At this event, Catholic Relief Services, Lumos, and Maestral International presented their project: Changing the Way We Care, a project aimed at ending the institutionalization of children. The presentation also includes a segment on voluntourism in orphanages and the contributions of international donors to orphanages, which perpetuate the corrupt orphanage industry, a…
Care for left-behind children in rural China: A realist evaluation of a community-based intervention
Abstract
In many countries, large numbers of left-behind children (LBC) grow up experiencing prolonged separation from their migrant worker parents. These children are known to be vulnerable to psychological and developmental problems. Drawing on qualitative interview data as well as ethnographic observations, a realist approach was applied in this study to evaluate the feasibility, acceptance, preliminary outcomes and potential sustainability of a …