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The DIPAS was developed through intensive internal and external consultations, including UN Agencies, governments, Organizations of Persons with Disabilities, and youth with disabilities and it is guided by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy (UNDIS).
The vision of the UNICEF DIPAS is a more inclusive world by 2030 where all children, including those with disabilities, live in barrier-free and inclusive communities.
The DIPAS sets out…
United States Government Policy Statement
The United States Government envisions a world in which all children thrive within protective, loving families, free from deprivation, violence, and danger. Advancing Protection and Care for Children in Adversity: A U.S. Government Strategy for International Assistance (2019–2023) outlines the U.S. Government’s whole-of-government commitment and approach to investing in the development, care, dignity, and safety of the world’s most-vulnerable children and their families. U.S. Government par tners involved in implementing this Strategy include the U…
This report, from the African Child Policy Forum, is aimed at informing and accelerating pan-African, regional and national efforts to prevent and respond to violence against children. The report provides an overview of violence against children, including its nature and magnitude in the African continent. The report outlines the primary forms of violence against children - physical violence, neglect, sexual violence, mental and psychological violence, and cultural practices that involve physical or emotional harm - as well as the contexts in which violence may occur, including in the home,…
This report from USAID, prepared by the European Network on Independent Living, features the findings from a study on why little progress has been made to end the institutionalization of people with disabilities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The report provides an overview of the situation of children and adults with disabilities in the region, offers information on the key principles and important elements of deinstitutionalization, describes the progress made to achieve deinstitutionalization, and concludes with recommendations for USAID Missions interested in deinstitutionalization…
This joint memo was issued by a group of European organizations to clearly state their belief that the draft language on community living in the proposed EU Structural Funds Regulations should be amended to enhance the effect and to better advance the rights of children, persons with disabilities, and older people. The memo highlights the need to clarify and improve the text, and why this is necessary in order to uphold the international legal obligations of the EU to promote the right to community living, particularly for children, persons with disabilities, and older people.
This narrated interactive feature produced by the Harvard Center on the Developing Child presents a logic model showing how policies and programs that strengthen specific kinds of caregiver and community capacities can build the foundations of healthy development. These support beneficial biological adaptations in the brain and other organ systems, which lead to positive outcomes in health and development across the lifespan.
The interactive logic model is centered on three concepts:
- Brain development begins before…
Cette déclaration a été développée à partir d’un ensemble grandissant de pratiques et de faits probants sur le renforcement des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne1 et s’inspire du dialogue et des résultats d’une conférence interinstitutionnelle sur le sujet qui a eu lieu à Dakar au Sénégal en mai 2012.
Son objectif est (i) de présenter une vision commune des systèmes de protection de l’enfance en Afrique subsaharienne et d’expliquer pourquoi ils sont importants et méritent des investissements et (ii) lancer un appel à l’action auprès des…
The recently released UNICEF Social Protection Strategic Framework and the World Bank Social Protection and Labor strategy call for taking a systems approach to social protection as a way to help countries, communities, families and children enhance resilience, equity and opportunity. This brief outlines the common ground between the World Bank and UNICEF in their commitment in developing and strengthening social protection systems, and calls on other stakeholders to engage collaboratively to build such systems and expand…
The 4th Forum on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) was held between 18 and 20 March 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As is customary, the Forum was organised ahead of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) also taking place in Ethiopia. Ninety-seven activists from 23 countries (of which 19 were in Africa) attended the Forum, which is a framework for strategic partnership to improve child rights in Africa. The following recommendations were made to the…
The European Declaration on the Health of Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Better Heath, Better Lives outlines ten priorities for action aimed at ensuring healthy and full lives for these children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to provide background information and offer pragmatic steps in relation to priority no. 3: “Transfer care from institutions to the community”. The paper was produced in preparation for the conference in Bucharest, Romania 26-27 November, 2010.
The paper includes a statement on the impact of…