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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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Russia’s war on Ukraine is having devastating impacts on children and families. More than 7 million children are affected, having experienced violence, loss of family members, displacement, and disrupted education. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been separated from their families and communities and forcibly transferred to Russian-occupied territories or deported to Russia and Belarus. Some have been placed in Russian foster and adoptive families and given Russian nationality. Many of these children have been transferred to “camps” and other facilities, where Russian officials…
In this workshop Family for Every Child members Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen (The Refugee Council of Lower Saxony, Germany), Programma Integra (Italy) and METAdrasi (Greece) share their experience around supporting unaccompanied minors, with For Our Children (FoC) in Bulgaria. They share top tips with FoC as they navigate the arrival of unaccompanied minors fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, and find ways to support them.
On Monday, January 23, 2017, the Alliance’s Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS) Working Group organized and led the webinar “What have we learned from the child protection response in epidemics during the Ebola crisis?”
Andrew Brooks, UNICEF Regional Child Protection Adviser for West and Central Africa, presented the finding of a recently released report “The Child Protection Response to the Ebola Virus Disease…
As India recovers from the second wave of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it has resulted in a severe impact on children and families. According to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, GoI, 577 children have been orphaned since May 2021. The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has shared that over 9,3000 children have lost parents or have been abandoned since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
In the backdrop of deaths in families, extended periods of shutdown and loss of employment opportunities, the pandemic has pushed families to the…
On September 24, 2015, the CPC Learning Network hosted a webinar about measuring the separation of children from their families in emergency settings. The measuring separation in emergencies project aims to strengthen emergency response programming for unaccompanied and separated children through the development of practical, field-tested tools to enhance the assessment of the scale and nature of separation in emergencies. The webinar featured Beth Rubenstein, senior research associate at the CPC Learning Network, and Eva Noble, former graduate research assistant at…
CP MERG hosted a webinar on 27 May 2015 entitled “Evaluating Protection and Psychosocial Support in the Context of Humanitarian Settings” and now the webinar recording and powerpoint presentations are available on the CP MERG website, http://www.cpmerg.org/webinars/. Click here for the recording of the webinar.
- Powerpoint presentation by Francesca Bonino: Evaluating Protection in Humanitarian Action - 4 Challenge Areas and Emerging Guidance…
Date: Jun 17, 2022 10:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
During times of war and emergency how can children and adults in institutions be protected without reinforcing segregated systems of service? What have recent experiences from Ukraine taught us about the challenges of enforcing the right to live in the community for all people with disabilities?
Panelists will discuss immediate challenges facing…