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PUSKAPA works to help policy makers improve children's access to health, education, justice, and social care in Indonesia. PUSKAPA is composed of an inter-disciplinary team of academics and practitioners from Indonesia and abroad. They pursue their goals through three interrelated set of activities: Research, Policy Advocacy, and Capacity Building.
Based in Ankara, Turkey, Hayat Sende Derneği seeks to confront stigmatization and discrimination against children and youth under legal protection in Turkey through advocacy campaigns, lobbying, education and training, and social entrepreneurship and innovation projects. Hayat Sende has built a platform that offers youth from state institutions and other disadvantaged backgrounds a myriad of training and experience opportunities to develop their professional and life skills. Hayat Sende envisions a world in which children under legal protection live in loving and caring…
FI is an NGO that focuses on children’s empowerment in South East Asia and provides social services to marginalized urban children and families. They focus on several issues including child migration and child refugees, family separation, and more. FI runs the ChildSafe International initiative which combines advocacy and training to spread awareness about risks that marginalized children face, including campaigns to promote ethical volunteerism and tourism linked to children in orphanages.
The Conference will focus on developing concepts and problem-solving frameworks, at the same time promoting regional networks for teaching, research and publication on children and childhood. Plenary sessions on cross-cutting themes of particular regional importance – research methods, education and HIV/AIDS – will be combined with four specialist symposia:
- The everyday lives of children in Asia-Pacific;
- Children, citizenship and policy in Asia-Pacific;
- Change and continuity in Asia-Pacific childhoods;
- Violence and children in Asia-Pacific…
UNICEF's Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia coordinates and supervises UNICEF’s work in 22 countries and entities to ensure that no child is left out in our efforts to realize their rights. The Regional Office advocates at regional level for investment in children and for children-centred social policies.
The Transformative Monitoring for Enhanced Equity (TransMonEE) Database captures a vast range of data relevant to social and economic issues relevant to the situation and wellbeing of children, young people and women in countries of Central Eastern Europe and Commonwealth of independent States (CEE/CIS).
The 2013 version of the database contains over 400 social and economic indicators divided into 11 topics (Population, Marriage and Divorce, Fertility, Mortality, Health, Education, Child Protection, Crime, Social Protection, Child-wellbeing, Economics). Data collected and…
Save the Children Indonesia has committed to changing forever the way the world treats children. They believe this generation has the unique opportunity to stop children dying from preventable causes, or being denied a basic education or consigned to orphanages. To achieve this change, Save the Children Indonesia has developed Signature Programs that are evidence-based, replicable, and scalable – programs that prove how, working with others, they can generate…
Muhammadiyah is devoted to social and educational activities that serve those living in poverty and children who are orphaned in Indonesia. In particular, their social program (MPS) seeks to find alternatives to residential care and new methods to promote family-based care.
Muhammadiyah is a member of Family for Every Child.
Global Child Advocates began in 2008, in response to a few children working on the streets in Thailand, where young girls and boys begged at night or dug through the trash for recyclables to sell. If they did not earn enough money each day, they were ‘beaten’. We responded by opening a ‘Safe house’ for these children, which was always meant to provide short-term care. Yet, many children did not have a safe family and foster care did not exist so over the years, it became long term. In offering care for children in such a vulnerable place, more children were referred to GCA, which led to…
Next Generation Nepal is an organization that works to reunite trafficked and institutionalized children in Nepal with their families.