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Udayan Care launched an academic journal, Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond (ICEB), in 2014. This 10th issue of the journal, released in September 2018, is a Special Focus issue on ‘Aftercare.’ The issue includes research studies, legal and policy perspectives, case studies, desk reviews, opinion pieces, international perspectives, interviews with experts from the field, good models and best practices, and movie and book reviews.
The issue features an interview with a care-leaver from Sri Lanka who grew up in institutions…
As child protection practitioners, many of us - whether it be in the context of policy, programming, service delivery or grant-making - will be familiar with the challenges of trying to undertake quality research, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) whilst operating within a context of limited human and financial resources. And whilst we know that increased quality evidence is fundamental for improved programming and policy, the very real day-to-day demands of developing, supporting or managing a program in a low-resource context can often overshadow this aspect of our work.
In an effort…
The February-March 2015 double edition of the ISS Monthly Review includes an article by Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, which provides a brief overview of the Tracking Progress project and potential implications for users of the tool. The article describes the history of, and reasoning behind, the development of this tracking tool which will allow national actors to monitor and assess the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in their own States. The tracking tool has been developed by an interagency initiative, which is co-facilitated by…
This issue No. 3-4 is one in a newsletter series concerning care reform in Moldova. The magazine was produced by Partnerships for Every Child (P4EC), an NGO in Moldova, with funding from the project, “Protecting children in Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation,” which is funded by USAID/DCOF. In addition to deinstitutionalization and other care reform work in the three raions (districts) of Calarasi, Falesti, and Ungheni, the project is also working at a national level on laws, policies, and procedures regarding…
This 10-page newsletter, translated into English, is issue number two of a series produced by the “Protecting children of Moldova from family separation, violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation” project, which is implemented by Partnerships for Every Child, the Ministry of Labour, Social Protection and Family of Moldova, and the Ministry of Education of Moldova. The issue contains articles on respite placement for children with disabilities, the government’s approval of a draft law on the protection of children at risk and separated from parents, the inter-sector cooperation for assistance…
This double edition of the ISS Monthly Review is a brief progress report on the situation of children in need of alternative care or at risk of so being, five years after the Guidelines’ acceptance at the United Nations’ General Assembly. The review highlights brief news on adoption, an overview of alternative care reform in Liberia, a feature on Ebola and alternative care, and an update from Florence Martin, director of the Better Care Network, entitled “Tracking Progress Initiative – Monitoring the Guidelines’ Implementation” which provides a brief overview of the Tracking Progress …
This special issue of the BCN newsletter is published today to coincide with the launch of a series of papers by The Lancet Group Commission on Institutionalisation and Deinstitutionalisation, providing an evidence-based policy-focused review addressing the issue of institutional care across the globe. The Commission features a set of papers that present both a systematic review of the evidence on the negative effects of institutional care and the benefits of deinstitutionalisation, as well as a…