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The Early Childhood Agreement for Children in Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) was first developed in 2014 as a shared commitment by the Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET), the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and Early Learning Association Australia (ELAA) to support young children in OOHC in Victoria, Australia to access key early childhood services. This now reflects a key purpose of the Early Years Compact between DHHS, DET and MAV (the Compact), which is the overarching framework governing the planning and…
The National Integrated Early Childhood Development (NIECD) policy of Uganda seeks to address multi-dimensional needs of young children through building more effective and coherent efforts among sectors to achieve positive early childhood development out comes for all children. The NIECD policy Action Plan of Uganda provides guidance and elaborates strategies that government and partners will employ to undertake the execution of the NIECD policy of Uganda.
The action plan provides a clear implementation framework to integrate and coordinate interventions within and across different sectors…
In this National Action Plan for Child Well-Being, Uganda spells out goals, plans, and actions it needs to take to improve child well-being in Uganda. The document points out that 62 percent of persons living in poverty are children. It notes that 33 percent of children under 5 are stunted, and it further states that only 37 percent of children make it to secondary education.
Uganda notes that it has introduced several goals and reforms in the past that have led to significant achievements toward ending poverty under its Millennium Development Goals. Those goals were…
This capacity building plan supports the implementation of the Liberian Guidelines for Kinship Care, Foster Care and Supported Independent Living. It establishes clear steps towards the strengthening of social welfare services for vulnerable populations in Liberia. This plan builds upon the on-going effort by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Department of Social Welfare to strengthen its capacity in terms of improving performance and providing quality social welfare services to people in need of care and support, including vulnerable children particularly children…
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:
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Children constitute the future leadership and workforce of each nation and therefore require serious commitment from the adult population, particularly state institutions to ensure their proper growth and development into adulthood. This is given credence and is manifested in the various Constitutional provisions and Parliamentary Acts and Legislative Instruments by the Government and people of Ghana.
Their future lies in the provision of measures and actions that will provide appropriate levels of protection, survival and development policy aimed at achieving the…