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In this video, Tamara Mwale of Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE) Zambia shares a story of reintegration. At ACE, whenever possible, the team seeks to reintegrate children with biological family. They create a customized plan to ensure a safe and healthy reintegration process with systemic support to prevent future disruption.
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This regional portrait describes Catholic-sponsored care for children in Eastern Africa using data from Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. The first large study of its kind, it focuses on children who are particularly vulnerable—those at risk of or those who have been separated from their families. Many are in institutional care.
This portrait also describes growing efforts, led by women and men religious, to ensure children can grow up in safe, nurturing families or family-like environments rather than institutions. Through national associations of religious, Catholic Care for Children…
Le Comité africain d'experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l'enfant (ACERWC/le Comité), en collaboration avec les États membres de l'Union africaine, les organisations partenaires, les enfants et les jeunes, a lancé la première étude continentale en son genre sur les enfants sans protection parentale (CWPC) en Afrique. L'étude, menée de 2020 à 2022, au milieu de la pandémie de COVID-19, couvre plus de 43 pays dans les cinq régions d'Afrique.
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The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC/the Committee), in collaboration with African Union Member States, partner organizations, children and young people, launched the first of its kind Continental Study on Children Without Parental Care (CWPC) in Africa. The study, conducted from 2020 to 2022, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, covered over 43 countries in the five regions of Africa.
In this webinar, a new paper on strategies to prevent family separation is presented. Examples from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Namibia are presented.
The Regional Learning Platform on care reform for Eastern and Southern Africa provides an opportunity for government, UNICEF and others involved in care reform in the region to share learning through webinars, document exchange, a HelpDesk, and pairing and mentoring. The platform and its…
Cette évaluation dresse un tableau de la situation en Côte d'Ivoire des enfants handicapés privés de soins parentaux ou risquant d'être séparés de leur famille, ainsi que des options de prise en charge alternative disponibles. Le rapport d'évaluation, qui comprend une série de recommandations, vise à guider les autorités ivoiriennes et acteurs clés à élaborer et à mettre en œuvre des politiques visant à promouvoir le droit des enfants handicapés à vivre en famille.
This assessment provides a picture of the situation in Côte d'Ivoire of children with disabilities deprived of parental care…
Changing the Way We Care (CTWWC) Kenya is working with four local non-governmental and faith-based organizations in the western part of Kenya and on the coast to strengthen family based care for children with an aim to prevent child-family separation and increase family-based alternatives for those that are separated.
The support received by families is largely provided by community-level workforce including skilled and trusted volunteers who work directly with families to understand the challenges that they face and the…
Global evidence shows that family strengthening programs increase parent and caregiver knowledge, self-confidence, and competencies around parenting, resulting in improvements for children and families. CTWWC Kenya is supporting families who are at risk of separation and those who have been reunited with their children, by helping parents or primary caregivers access a package of family strengthening support, directly and through referral to existing sources of support.
Positive parenting programs are an important part of this package and are provided together with training in household…
Throughout Kenya, access to community-based and government services for children with disabilities is scant and costly. Children with disabilities and their families travel long distances or have infrequent access to services. These access barriers are one of the contributing factors to family separation for children with disabilities and complicates reunification.
Disability networks, comprised of government and non-government actors, play an important role in addressing these gaps at the county level. The networks also mobilize resources, sensitize communities, and advocate to…
This learning brief was developed as part of the CTWWC 2021 annual report and shares learning from demonstration countries on how to engage and bring faith actors into care reform.
Changing The Way We CareSM (CTWWC) is a global initiative designed to promote safe, nurturing family care for children. This includes reforming national systems of care for children, strengthening families, family reunification and preventing child-family separation, which can have harmful, long-term consequences, and development of alternative family-based care – and influencing to build momentum…