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The Organizational Governance and Accountability Checklist is designed to help you determine whether the organisation providing residential care services and principal donor (where the principal donor represents an entity) have sufficient governance and accountability structures in place to mitigate, manage and address risks or issues that may arise in the course of transition.
The checklist provides a list of questions covering the areas of legal status, board governance, financial controls, child protection and staff management. It allows you to identify gaps that may need to be…
In 2017, the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) engaged the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation to build on and reinforce progress in advancing national efforts on behalf of children who lack adequate family-based care in Moldova. With the support of MEASURE Evaluation, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection (MOHLSP) conducted a participatory self-assessment of the national alternative care system. Specifically, the assessment measured Moldova’s status on implementation of the United Nations’ Guidelines for…
In 2017, the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) engaged the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation to build on and reinforce progress in advancing national efforts on behalf of children who lack adequate family-based care in Moldova. With the support of MEASURE Evaluation, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection (MOHLSP) conducted a participatory self-assessment of the national alternative care system. Specifically, the assessment measured Moldova’s status on implementation of the United Nations’ Guidelines for…
This Manual includes background information, standard operating procedures with documentation tools and job aids on case management. It aims to support social workers from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare in Namibia in their daily work to effectively support vulnerable children and families with user-friendly guidance in case management. The last job aid is a manual on supportive supervision.
The purpose of this manual is to provide guidance on all aspects of social work case management practice for social workers employed by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child…
The purpose of the toolkit is to assist all public authorities in Europe involved in the programming and implementation of EU Structural Funds (and other relevant funds) to make decisions which will help to improve the lives of more than a million European citizens currently living in institutional care; and to modernise care and support systems by ensuring that respect for human rights and equality are at the heart of reforms. Structural Funds have the potential to support the development of quality family-based and community-based alternatives to institutional care.
The…
In 2007 the Government of Moldova approved the National Strategy and Action Plan for the Reform of the Residential Childcare System 2007-2012. The overall objectives of the Action Plan were to reduce the number of children living outside a family by 50% and to reorganise residential institutions to support children in families. This informative evaluation commissioned by UNICEF, the Government of the Republic of Moldova and NGO partners is built around 6 critical questions:
- Assessing…
Retrak is an organization that works with street children in Africa. This report offers an evaluation of the impact of Retrak's programs in Ethiopia and Uganda in its pilot period (2011 and 2012) and the progress of the children involved in the programs, using the Child Status Index (CSI) as a measurement of child wellbeing and a tool for tracking children’s progress as they transition from the street to family homes. The CSI was developed by Measure Evaluation and is comprised of a system of indicators…
In 2010 the UK Government strengthened the duties local authorities have towards their care leavers. The Care Leavers (England) Regulations 2010 and the statutory guidance Volume 3: Planning Transition to Adulthood for Care Leavers came into force in April 2011 and are based on the best local practice. This data pack, produced by the Department for Education, aims to summarize national data about children who leave care aged 16 and over and outcomes of care leavers at age 19. The pack was also developed to help local authorities to compare their performance with others and to investigate…
*Please note that the attached brief provides additional information. The actual Inter-Agency Child Protection Information Management System is only available upon request through the contact information listed at the bottom of the page.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), Save the Children and UNICEF have been working together since 2005 to promote the use of a standard inter-agency child protection information management system for the child protection sector. The information management system is a practical, field level tool that supports effective and timely responses…
WHAT: This folder contains guidance and planning and assessment tools to implement reform of national social care financing from institutionalized care to a family and community-based framework.
- Redirecting Resources to Community Based Services: A Concept Paper: A comparative analysis of social care financing systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, with guidance on transitioning to family based care.
- Executive Summary of the above concept paper
- Introduction to the toolkit…