Displaying 1 - 6 of 6
Executive summary
Background
Over the past six years, the global child protection humanitarian community has invested significant efforts into setting standards and improving the quality of child protection case management in humanitarian settings. In 2017, the Case Management Task Force (CMTF) of the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (the Alliance) decided to prioritize the role of supervision, with coaching as a core approach and strategy. With OFDA’s support, the CMTF undertook the creation of Supervision and Coaching guidance, tools and a training package.…
This report aims to bring global attention to the challenges related to the reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups, and promote better policy, practice and funding in the future. The findings are based on a literature review and primary research in Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, and interviews with government departments, UN agencies, NGOs and civil society in Colombia, Iraq and South Sudan. The global financial analysis was undertaken in 2018.
This report identifies key barriers to reintegration programming that War Child has…
Introduction
This paper summarises findings from an initial scoping study, which seeks to review how child protection outcomes are captured when monitoring multi-purpose humanitarian cash programmes. The study intends to inform the development and piloting of new approaches to integrating child protection concerns into multi-purpose cash monitoring frameworks. It was conducted for the Alliance for Child Protection’s, Cash Transfer and Child Protection Task Force.
As the Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC [WRC, 2018]) points out, humanitarian crises are often dangerous contexts that put…
This report from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees details the experiences of Syrian refugee children and youth. The report presents findings from a research project that sought to understand the refugee crisis from the perspectives of children by conducting a desk review, interviews, and focus groups with children and families to collect both quantitative as well as qualitative data and narrative information on the daily lives of Syrian refugee children living in Lebanon and Jordan. The goal of this report is to put a human face on the crisis, to raise awareness of the child protection…
This systematic review published by the Campbell Collaboration reviewed controlled experimental and quasi experimental studies in which children removed from the home for maltreatment and subsequently placed in kinship care were compared with children placed in non-kinship foster care for child welfare outcomes in the domains of well-being, permanency, or safety. Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing these children in out-of-home…
Executive Summary
A common conception is that Islamic law forbids adoptions. However, this belief misses the complexity of Islamic law, the scope of adoption laws and practices across the world, and the overwhelming emphasis on taking care of orphans and foundlings found within Islamic sources. Contemporary adoption practices are immensely complex issues, overlapping with children’s rights, international and national laws, human psychology, economic, social, and religious concerns, and the ethics of lineage, identity, property and inheritance rights. In this position paper, the Muslim…