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The Minimum Package is a guide to encourage the harmonizing of service delivery for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children and Youth (OVCY) across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Member States can adopt or adapt these standards and guidelines at the national level. The Minimum Package identifies the basic needs of children and youth and the services they require as well as complementing services needed to deliver basic services. It also identifies the primary and secondary sectors and actors that can respond and how their services can be delivered in a coordinated,…
There is a growing interest in applying the systems approach to strengthening child protection efforts. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the systems approach shifts attention to a larger systemic framework that includes legal and policy contexts, institutional capacity, community contexts, planning, budgeting and monitoring and evaluation subsystems. This paper is a response to the increasing need for agreement on approaches and documented evidence of good practices consistent with system strengthening work.
The purpose of the Inter-Agency Working Paper is to…
These standards are intended to guide social workers and other service providers in carrying out the tasks of recruiting, assessing, training, matching, supporting, supervising and monitoring when providing foster care services. The primary aim of these Standards is to ensure that the best interests of the child are sought when a child is in need of foster care.
The standards are designed to guide all those responsible for planning and providing foster care services, and for registering and monitoring Foster Care Service Providers in Namibia. The care provided can be measured and assessed…
This study commissioned by the Ministry of Gender, Children, and Community Development and financially and technically supported by UNICEF and the Better Care Network, aimed at describing the situation of children in institutional care and creating a database containing all institutions in Malawi catering for children requiring alternative care. Some of the scope of work the study covers including mapping out the institutions and counting the number of children being cared for, determining the registration status of institutions, documenting different types…
Guidelines developed to assure and improve the quality of services for the well being, protection and development of orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria. At the centre of the concept of quality are the needs of the orphan and vulnerable child, the family and community. The main purpose in developing the guidelines therefore, was to create an environment where all stakeholders support quality in the provision of care, support and protection to orphans and vulnerable children in compliance with agreed guidelines and standards of practice.
Following Ghana’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) in 1990, the country also initiated steps towards law reforms as an attempt to affirm its moral and legal obligation towards the survival, development and protection of Ghanaian children. National laws were harmonized with the UNCRC beginning with the 1992 Constitution which saw the inclusion of Article 28. This article guarantees the rights and freedom for children. It is also similar in terms as the principles of the UNCRC, and was followed by the passage of the progressive Children’s Act,…
The Care Reform Initiative launched in 2006 to update and enforce the Regulations and Standards for the Operation of Residential Care Setting in Ghana is a joint venture between the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) and OrphanAid Africa. These Standards are part of a reform initiative programme that involves the provision of various forms of support by OrphanAid Africa and other partners; to enhance the capacity of DSW to encourage family based care. The aim of the programme is to ensure that institutional care is used as a last resort, and that when it is used, these establishments comply…
This study sought to assess, analyse and inform the different forms of vulnerabilities affecting children and youth, and their effects and existing strategies and programmes addressing the challenges and vulnerabilities facing orphans, vulnerable children and youth (OVCY) in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region. The study also sought to propose recommendations for improvement, and development of minimum standards for OVCY and the finalisation of the SADC OVCY Strategic Framework.
These Regulations and Tools are designed to create the basis for reforming welfare institutions, thereby protecting children and providing opportunities for those living in alternative care. They were adopted in 2010 and provide the basis through which the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) will regulate all child welfare institutions, including orphanages and alternative care arrangements such as foster care and kinship.
EveryChild is an international development charity working in 17 countries with a strategic focus on children without parental care. This document outlines EveryChild’s approach to the growing problem of children without parental care by defining key concepts, analysing the nature and extent of the problem, exploring factors which place children at risk of losing parental care, and examining the impact of a loss of parental care on children’s rights. It also provides principles for good practice in trying to reduce the number of children without parental…