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Executive Summary
In many countries around the world, systems of protection and care for children are in reform as a commitment to family care increases among governments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, advocates, communities, and families. However, there is limited understanding of the support available for the important work of transitioning residential care centers to family care and community services. This study seeks to map the landscape of support for transitioning residential care centers, specifically considering organizations or individuals who are providing or could…
The 2019 Resolution on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2019. The Resolution focuses specifically on children without parental care. It emphasizes the importance of growing up in a family environment and the right of the child to a family, highlights the rights of children with disabilities with respect to family life, opposes the unnecessary separation of children from their families and the unlawful or arbitrary deprivation of liberty of children, encourages efforts to reunify families where in the best interests of the child,…
The European Union (EU) has recognised that the transition from institutions towards family and community-based care needs to be prioritised for children globally. However, the process of transforming systems of care is complex and securing its quality implementation with EU funding may be equally intricate. As a leading and influential international development donor, the EU has the potential to drive forward successful care transformation for children across the world.
This report sets out the evidence about the harm that institutions can cause and presents the case for prioritising…
There is widespread global agreement that children should grow up safe and protected in families, rather than in harmful institutional care. In Rwanda, the Government has developed an ambitious programme of care reform and family strengthening called Tubarerere Mu Muryango (TMM), translated to Let’s Raise Children in Families.
This programme has been supported by UNICEF, and has seen over 3,000 children reunited with families and communities since 2012. The programme is rooted in Rwandan cultural values, which place a strong emphasis on family care.
This package includes the…
Objetivo del informe
Perspectivas sobre la transformación de la atención y protección desde un orfanato de Colombia: Fundamor, una organización que ofrece servicios a niños y niñas afectados por el VIH, cerró su internado y, con el apoyo de Lumos, reubicó a los niños y niñas internos en nuevas modalidades de atención familiar.
A pesar de los progresos recientes, Colombia aún enfrenta conflictos y pobreza. Los servicios y el apoyo que se ofrecen en muchas comunidades no satisfacen las necesidades de sus habitantes, y más de 11 000 niños y niñas viven en acogimiento…
Fundamor, a renowned NGO that specialised in providing services for HIV-positive children, decided to try to close its institution and move children to family-based care. The institution had been established at a time when state support for HIV-positive people was in its infancy. Insufficient access to adequate health care, coupled with poverty, led parents of HIV-positive children to bring them to the Fundamor institution. Over time, the leadership of Fundamor noticed that whilst children received good health care, nutrition and education, they were not developing as they would in a family…
About this document
Too many children, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups are being deprived of their family and community by being placed in large-scale residential institutions. These institutions are extremely harmful to an individual’s well-being and development, and significantly more expensive than community- or family-based care.
This document was developed by UNICEF with funding support from the Oak Foundation, and in broad consultation and partnership with a range of civil society groups, NGOs and networks which are engaged in advocacy, monitoring, and…
A un año de la masacre de las niñas del Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asunción, el CEN -una iniciativa conjunta de RELAF y Hope and Homes for Children, convocó un webinar que contó con la participación de más de 200 personas de casi 20 países donde se lanzó el Llamado a la acción: Poner fin a las vulneraciones de Derechos Humanos de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes que se encuentran en las instituciones disponible a continuación.
Esta llamada a la acción se propone activar, o profundizar y fortalecer —según el estado de avance en cada país— apuntan a poner…
This call to action was issued by the Center of Excellence for Children in Latin American (CEN - el Centro de Excelencia por la Niñez), a joint initiative of RELAF and Hope and Homes for Children, in response to a fire that killed 41 girls and injured 15 others in a children's home in Guatemala in March 2017. The Call to Action aims to promote or expand and strengthen initiatives (depending on the progress achieved in each country); put an end to residential care for children whenever this does not meet the necessity and suitability principles outlined in the United Nations…
Executive Summary
European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) 2014—2020, along with policy innovations by the European Union, have paved the way in several Member States to make progress in reforming the child protection systems towards strengthening families and ensuring alternative family- and community-based care for children. However, not all EU Member States have benefited equally from the initiatives and many countries outside the EU did not get the opportunity to transform their child protection systems through EU funding instruments.
Across Europe, thousands of our youngest…