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More than 100 child participants across East Asia convened with government officials to discuss the increased instances of child violence experienced during COVID-19 at World Vision’s Asia Pacific Child Well-Being Learning Exchange forum on 18 November 2020. The virtual event, organised in partnership with UNICEF East Asia and Pacific, was introduced to bring together government, UN agencies, donors, civil society organisations, corporates, academia, subject matter experts and thought leaders in the development sector, to throw light on pressing issues facing the world’s most vulnerable…
In November 2012, more than 130 policymakers, academics, practitioners and other experts committed to CP systems and coming from 50 countries met in New Delhi over four days for a major conference entitled “A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Protection Systems.” This conference was co-hosted by four organisations – UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children and World Vision. The report from the conference encapsulates the substantive content of the presentations and related discussion; provides an analysis and documents the journey;…
On the 24th September Better Care Network and the CPC Learning Network organized a one day symposium entitled The State of the Evidence on Children’s Care at McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, New York University.
The symposium topics were clustered around three specific areas of issues related to children’s care:
- Efforts to measure trends in families and children’s care and living arrangements;
- Initiatives to measure the impact of policies and programs to strengthen families and to…
You are warmly invited to the launch of an exciting new manual for practitioners on how to engage children and young people throughout care reform. Building on ten years’ experience, this practical manual was designed for practitioners and service managers who want to build their knowledge and skills on meaningful participation. The manual was co-produced by Lumos, Changing the Way We Care and youth-advocates from around the world. At this interactive launch event you will hear from the youth advocates and those who developed the manual on innovative approaches to involving children and…
- How can we ensure that adults listen to children and take their views into account?
- What innovative approaches are being used around the world to amplify children’s voices?
- How can we adapt these to different contexts?
Family Perspective will hold an IFFD briefing on promoting child inclusion through quality education for all on 8 February 2017 from 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at United Nations Headquarters.
The world is still falling short in its promise and commitment to ensure the right to a safe childhood. Poverty is a prominent and agreed international measure of family living standards. It can be used to monitor how families fare now, and due to its comparability across countries over time, it is a power-ful outcome measure for detailed policy evaluations of the success of government efforts to support…