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Introduction
The following pages discuss how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can reach children without parental care. Although there is no precise statistical data on these children, there are estimates that approximately 220 million children are growing up without parental care – ten percent of the world’s child population. This figure includes children who have lost or are at risk of losing parental care and live in extremely vulnerable circumstances where they lack adequate care and protection.
Children without parental care are disproportionately…
This document is a statement in support of the Guidelines on Children's Reintegration. The statement notes that the Guidlines were created through a coordination of leading aid and development agencies for the purpose of ensuring a greater investment into reintegration. According to the statement, as the world grapples with higher levels of conflicts, disasters, and mass migrations, the need for a sound reintegration plan becomes a higher priority.
These guidelines were written by Emily Delap of Family for Every Child and Joanna Wedge (a consultant) on behalf of the inter…
This document, published by Catholic Relief Services, urges members of the Catholic faith community to consider the best interests of the child when partnering, or “twinning” with parishes in Haiti and undertaking charitable activities. “Twinning,” says the report is the practice of Catholic congregations, or parishes, in the United States partnering with parishes in Haiti and providing support, money, resources, and volunteers to those parishes. These activities often include directing resources toward children in orphanages in Haiti. The problem with this support, says Catholic Relief…
In 2013 The Better Care Network and Save the Children UK began an inter-agency initiative to review and share existing knowledge on international volunteerism as related to the alternative care of children in developing countries. This initiative brings together key actors from across the child protection, education, corporate, faith-based and tourism sectors to share their respective experiences and identify global communication and engagement strategies to address the issue.
The purpose of this study was not to conduct formal academic research on the topic of volunteering in…
This report - produced by SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, and the University of Malawi - is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It considers common challenges to implementing the Guidelines identified in the eight countries and provides a platform for effective advocacy to promote every child’s right to quality care. At the end of each chapter, the report provides…
On the 22nd October 2013, three Latin American presidents (Costa Rica, Honduras and Paraguay) gave their support to a new regional campaign in the Latin American and Caribbean region launched to end the placement of children under three years of age in institutions. This ‘Call to action’ is led by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children (MMI-CLAC), the Latin American Foster Care Network (RELAF), the …
Policy Recommendations and conclusions from November’s high level conference focused on mobilizing political will around alternative care for children. Wilton Park and Save the Children UK co-sponsored the conference in partnership with UNICEF and the Better Care Network.
There are challenges to overcome in terms of gathering data, harnessing political will, strengthening systems, securing funding, and increasing public and political understanding regarding children without adequate parental care. This conference provided the opportunity to share good practices, information and ideas…
On June 17, 2009 the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva adopted by consensus a procedural resolution A/HRC/11/L.11 submitting the “Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children” to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York for consideration with a view to their adoption on the 20th anniversary of the UNCRC in November. While the latest resolution at the Human Rights Council is a major step forward, more work and lobbying needs to be undertaken in New York as well as in individual countries to promote its final adoption at the UN General Assembly. Co-…
A great change is coming over childhood in the world’s richest countries. Today’s rising generation is the first in which a majority is spending a large part of early childhood in some form of out-of-home child care. At the same time, neuroscientific research is demonstrating that loving, stable, secure, and stimulating relationships with caregivers in the earliest months and years of life are critical for every aspect of a child’s development. Taken together, these two developments confront public and policymakers in OECD countries with urgent questions. Whether the child care…
The Separated Children in Europe Program (SCEP) is a joint initiative of the International Save the Children Alliance and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The programme is based on the complementary mandates and areas of expertise of the two organizations.
UNHCR’s responsibility is to ensure protection of refugee children and those seeking asylum. The International Save the Children Alliance is concerned to see the full realization of the rights of all children.
The programme aims to realize the rights and best interests of separated children who have come to or across…