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This webinar was hosted by the Evidence for Impact Working Group of the Transforming Children’s Care Collaborative on March 30, 2023, and examined the Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project in Brazil.
The Early Institutionalization Intervention Impact Project's (EI-3) main goal is to document and compare the impacts that enhanced institutional care and enhanced foster care have on development during early childhood.
The EI-3 research project builds upon the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP). Conducted in…
Typical large-group institutions for abandoned children or orphans are known to be bad for the development of children, but what about small-group care?
This report presents SOS Children’s Villages (SOSCV) as a natural and non-detrimental setting for abandoned children. In a random effects meta-analysis, the authors combined the scientific evidence on the physical and mental health of children growing up in SOSCV compared with peers growing up in typical institutions and in biological and foster families (N = 1,567). Results showed substantial developmental delays of SOSCV children…
The study was aimed at gaining insights into the operations of privately run, Christian faith-based residential care facilities (RCFs) in Myanmar. Specifically, the study sought to better understand the operational mechanisms of these RCFs, including the characteristics of the directors and donors, the means and reasons for referral and admission of children into care, and how the interplay of these dynamics affect RCF stakeholders’ willingness to engage in transition, the reintegration of children, and transition outcomes.
The study employed a mixed methods approach and gathered data from…
The Better Care Network, ACC International Relief and Changing the Way We Care invited practitioners, advocates and organisations who promote and support residential care service transitions to this launch webinar of the Transitioning Models of Care Assessment Tool.
In the webinar, developers Rebecca Nhep and Hannah Won introduced the tool and spoke to its origins, purpose, use, structure, key themes and the unique scoring system…
This tool aims to assist practitioners to achieve the following objectives when providing technical support to transition institutions:
- Determine the feasibility of implementing a successful transition by taking into account the number of positive indicators and/or severity of risk indicators
- Extract and analyze critical information that informs the approach and allows the practitioner to develop a strategic plan and budget for transition
The Organizational Governance and Accountability Checklist is designed to help you determine whether the organisation providing residential care services and principal donor (where the principal donor represents an entity) have sufficient governance and accountability structures in place to mitigate, manage and address risks or issues that may arise in the course of transition.
The checklist provides a list of questions covering the areas of legal status, board governance, financial controls, child protection and staff management. It allows you to identify gaps that may need to be…
In 2017, the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) engaged the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation to build on and reinforce progress in advancing national efforts on behalf of children who lack adequate family-based care in Moldova. With the support of MEASURE Evaluation, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection (MOHLSP) conducted a participatory self-assessment of the national alternative care system. Specifically, the assessment measured Moldova’s status on implementation of the United Nations’ Guidelines for…
In 2017, the Displaced Children and Orphans Fund (DCOF) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) engaged the USAID-funded MEASURE Evaluation to build on and reinforce progress in advancing national efforts on behalf of children who lack adequate family-based care in Moldova. With the support of MEASURE Evaluation, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection (MOHLSP) conducted a participatory self-assessment of the national alternative care system. Specifically, the assessment measured Moldova’s status on implementation of the United Nations’ Guidelines for…
This chapter appears in Child Maltreatment in Residential Care: History, Research, and Current Practice, a volume of research examining the institutionalization of children, child abuse and neglect in residential care, and interventions preventing and responding to violence against children living in out-of-home care settings around the world.
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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:
- Assessing…