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Abstract
Background
Funding for prevention interventions is often quite limited. Cost-related assessments are important to best allocate prevention funds.
Objectives
To determine the (1) overall cost for implementing the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) model, (2) cost of implementation per child, and (3) cost per case of maltreatment averted.
Design
Cost-effective analysis of a randomized controlled trial.
Participants and setting
102 pediatric providers at 18 pediatric primary care practices. 924 families with children < 6 years receiving care by those…
This report provides a brief analysis of social sector spending in Zambia. It reviews spending on social protection, water and sanitation, health, food insecurity, and education.
This statement from Lumos outlines the organization's recommendations to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development regarding the institutionalization of children. The statement includes some background information on the harmful effects of institutionalization on children and highlights the existing "commitment to ending the institutionalisation of children inside the EU." The statement includes three recommendations from Lumos:
1. Ensure that the EBRD does not fund institutions for children
2. Include children in institutions as a target group for the EBRD’s…
Introduction
Children placed in institutional care are deprived of their fundamental right to living in a family environment. The Romanian state would greatly improve their situation, if it took care of preventing the separation of children from their family, instead of focusing on the current model - placing in care about 63,000 children, while hundreds of thousands of them still live in inhumane conditions. These are the ones that specialised public authorities pretend they do not see, because they lack the capacity for legislative framework design to prevent the separation of…
The PEPFAR Uganda Interagency Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) Portfolio Review and Cost Analysis was conducted in November 2015. The purpose of the review is to provide evidence to support planning that will maximize the impact of the PEPFAR Uganda OVC portfolio. To this end, the report:
- Identifies and describes the implementation approaches within the PEPFAR Uganda OVC portfolio, indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each model with respect to their capacity to achieve intended outcomes;
- Provides a cost analysis of the various implementation models,…
In 2015, the European Parliament called on the European Commission and the European Union Member States, “in view of the weakening of public services, to introduce a Child Guarantee so that every child in poverty can have access to free healthcare, free education, free childcare, decent housing and adequate nutrition, as part of a European integrated plan to combat child poverty”. Following the subsequent request by the Parliament to the Commission to implement a Preparatory Action to explore the potential scope of a Child Guarantee for vulnerable children, the Commission ordered a study to…
These recommendations have been developed by the Opening Doors for Europe’s Children campaign and are based on the work of the campaign since 2016, calling for a stronger commitment to maintain, strengthen and expand the use of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation reforms in Europe. "As a coalition of 124 civil society organisations working to improve the lives of vulnerable families and children in 16 European countries," says the report, "we call on the European Parliament and the Council of the EU to take forward the renewed commitment of the European Commission, as reflected in EC’s…
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…
Abstract
HIV and AIDS are reported to be one of the leading causes of death in Nigeria, behind other child-related death illnesses – influenza and pneumonia (CDC, 2013). The presence of HIV and AIDS in a family, including related orhpanhood because of the disease has a significant impact on the health and wellbeing of children. It also dramatically impacts the long-term implications and costs to society. However, there remains a notable disparity between the contributions made by different actors – including all levels of the Nigerian government, international donors, private organizations…
This report from Opening Doors for Europe's Children presents recommendations to the EU on how best to include deinstitutionalization and children's care reforms as a part of the next multiannual financial framework. "The negotiations for the next Multiannual Financial Framework present a unique opportunity for the EU to champion the transition from institutional to family and communitybased care as a human rights cause," states the report.
The EU has the chance and means to give millions of children within and beyond its borders access to a better life – no longer…