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This World Health Organization (WHO) progress report looks back on the five years since the Nurturing care framework was launched. It documents achievements and presents areas for future action.
Annotated with stories of change, the report provides a snapshot of progress in relation to each of the five strategic actions of the Framework and shows the breadth of activities that have been undertaken.
This report from the UN Office of the SRSG on Violence against Children explores repatriation, rehabilitation, and reintegration of the tens of thousands of foreign, Iraqi and Syrian children who are being held in detention on suspected ISIS association or terror-related offenses, or in camps. The report notes that these children are exposed to violence, due process violations (e.g. lack of hearings and legal representation) and family separation. Separated from their families, these children are deprived of knowing their family relations and are at risk of statelessness. In…
Overview
Enabling young children to achieve their full developmental potential is a human right and an essential requisite for sustainable development. Given the critical importance of enabling children to make the best start in life, the health sector, among other sectors, has an important role and responsibility to support nurturing care for early childhood development. This guideline provides direction for strengthening policies and programmes to better address early childhood development.
It is primarily the family who provides the nurturing care that children need…
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…
Inter-agency Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) guide Child Protection Case Management programming in humanitarian settings by enabling service providers to harmonise and standardise services and approaches for children and families. Many achievements have been made in rolling out SOPs in different contexts. However, in the absence of inter-agency guidance on how to develop SOPs, the scope and quality of SOPs vary – thus affecting their application.
Therefore, the Global Case Management Task Force under the Alliance for Child…
In 2008, UNHCR released the UNHCR Guidelines on Determining the Best Interests of the Child (2008 BID Guidelines), and added its accompanying Field Handbook in partnership with IRC in 2011. For the last 10 years, these tools have provided staff and partners with practical guidance, processes and tools on applying the best interests principle in decisions affecting children at risk in particular children who are separated from their parents and families. Building on the practice of strengthening national child protection systems and on 10 years of implementation of UNHCR’s Guidelines…
A framework for nurturing care
The Nurturing Care Framework provides a roadmap for action. It builds on state-of-the-art evidence about how early childhood development unfolds and how it can be improved by policies and interventions. It outlines:
- why efforts to improve health, well-being and human capital must begin in the earliest years, from pregnancy to age 3;
- the major threats to early childhood development;
- how nurturing care protects young children from the worst effects of adversity and promotes development – physical, emotional, social and…
The Nurturing Care Framework was created in response to strong evidence and growing recognition that the early years are critical for human development. Commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals and the Global Strategy provide the impetus for countries and stakeholders to act. More than 1000 individuals and organizations from 111 countries informed the drafting process of this framework.
The Framework was developed by WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank, in collaboration with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, the Early…
Developed by members of the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance’s Case Management Interest Group, this resource aims to define case management. It provides key steps and other important considerations for strengthening the ability of the social service workforce to effectively carry out case management throughout all steps of the process.
The use of quality case management practices has been shown to improve decision-making and service delivery in child welfare and protection that reduces violence against children, prevents unnecessary family separation, and improves child and family…
INTRODUCTION
The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants is an important reaffirmation by Heads of State and Government and High Representatives of their intention “to fully protect the human rights of all refugees and migrants, regardless of status”. A key outcome of the Declaration is the creation of two new Global Compacts, one on refugees and one on migrants. These Global Compacts, to be agreed by government representatives at the United Nations (UN) in 2018, will articulate common commitments in respect of the protection of refugees and migrants. Regarding children, …