Displaying 1 - 10 of 60
Este Conjunto de Herramientas está compuesto de las herramientas enumeradas a continuación, que pueden ser leídas de manera independiente o conjunta. Cuando es relevante, se hace referencia entre las herramientas para aportar una visión holística de la manera de proceder para facilitar la detección, prevención y la respuesta a las prácticas ilícitas.
Las herramientas fueron deliberadamente redactadas en términos generales para alentar a los Estados a adaptarlas a sus realidades específicas al establecer sus propios procedimientos, medidas y garantías, y difundirlas ampliamente. Este…
La boîte à outils, qui est une ressource clé pour toutes les autorités centrales d'adoption et d'autres acteurs pour répondre aux pratiques passées potentielles et prévenir toute pratique illicite, comprend les quatre parties suivantes:
- des fiches sur les pratiques illicites ;
- une liste de contrôle pour aider à la prise de décision par les Autorités centrales ;
- une procédure type pour répondre aux cas présumés et avérés de pratiques illicites ; et
- des lignes directrices sur le renforcement de la coopération et de la coordination pour…
Family for Every Child's new Participatory Evaluation Toolkit places the knowledge and experience of local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) at its centre. It offers an alternative to traditional evaluation dynamics, by drawing on the strength of local solutions.
Guidance and tools for participatory monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) have been developed to support local CSOs to build evidence of their promising practices, in a way that works for them, and contributes to the body of effective and transformative practice within the children’s rights sector.…
This short document describes the process of ensuring Kafaalah is considered as a family-based alternative care option within Kenya and the work to promote best practice within the model. It describes the journey of developing a framework and standard operating procedures, beginning with the launch of the Kenyan Guidelines on the Alternative Family Care of Children in 2014.
Changing the Way We Care worked with many partners and shares the learning on Kafaalah through this document.
Changing the Way We Care is a global initiative implemented by Catholic Relief Services,…
Introduction
This section of the toolkit provides guidance on the issues to consider when planning and designing community engagement. It focuses on quality and effectiveness, process planning and designing engagement tailored to the particular issue, level of participation to be achieved, timeframe and range of stakeholders affected.
Planning and Designing Community Engagement
Community engagement works best where it is an ongoing cumulative process enabling relationships and trust to build and strengthen over time. Individual engagement events should be planned and designed…
Building a system to care for vulnerable children and families starts with community mapping. Community mapping is a process of identifying and cataloguing who is doing what in a given geographical area. It allows us to identify key stakeholders, learn about currently available services, pinpoint gaps in services, and facilitate collaboration. This document provides guidance on how to conduct a community mapping.
Read the Spanish version here.
There are numerous factors that can result in a child being at risk of experiencing family separation. Issues can be complex, multifaceted and involve child protection, family functioning, service access and poverty related concerns. In many cases, the outcome for a child, in particular whether separation is successfully prevented or not, is as contingent upon the approach employed by social workers as it is the underlying factors at play.
In this video, Grace Mwangi, a Program Consultant with Lumos, shares key lessons from her experience working in community-based social work with…
The stories of those adoptive families created through intercountry adoption, is a story of an intercultural encounter – a meeting with another, in all of his or her individuality and social and cultural identity. The issue of identity, therefore, is central to the adoption process. The search into one’s origins is part of this identity quest – a quest inherent in all, but which is often stronger amongst adopted persons.
With this in mind, ISS/IRC has updated its 2011 survey on the subject, with the aim of identifying evolutions that have occurred since that time in relation to search for…
Over 1 million EU citizens live in institutions, which segregate them from society and deny them control over their own lives. Many more are at risk of being institutionalised as a result of lack of adequate support services.
EU funding has been instrumental in improving the lives of many of these citizens. It has contributed to the development of new family-based and community-based services. And it has contributed to the transition from institutions to family-based and community-based care for thousands of people.
There have also been instances when EU funding was directed…
Leher has been implementing a pilot community led child protection intervention in the District of Madhubani, Bihar, India since 2014, using participatory processes to test and learn the potential of local leadership of communities in demanding and securing child rights and protection. Leher’s vision is a society where caring families, alert communities and a responsive government work together to ensure rights and protection for every child.
In June 2017, Leher developed a “Virtual companion aka a VCPC Tool Kit” in partnership with the State Government of Maharashtra, Maharashtra State…