This country page features an interactive, icon-based data dashboard providing a national-level overview of the status of children’s care and care reform efforts (a “Country Care Snapshot”), along with a list of resources and organizations in the country.
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Key Stakeholders
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Drivers of Institutionaliziation
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Key Data Sources
Add New DataPrevalence and number of children living in institutional care: global, regional, and country estimates
Social Protection and Disability in Kenya
Kenya Social Protection Sector Review
Country Care Review: Kenya
Child Developmental Disabilities, Caregivers’ Role in Kenya and Its Implications on Global Migration
Research findings on Alternative care system in Kenya for children without parental care
Charitable Children Institutions in Kenya: Factors Influencing Institutionalization of Children
Acknowledgements
Data for this country care snapshot was contributed by consultants with Maestral International.
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The purpose of the toolkit is to help UNICEF country teams and their partners to enhance the overall child protection dialogue and programming, with a particular focus on developing system capacity.
The overall goal of this policy is to realize and safeguard the rights and welfare of the child in Kenya.
The Children Act, Chapter 141 is a Kenyan law that addresses provision for parental responsibility, fostering, adoption, custody, maintenance, guardianship, care and protection of children; provision for the administration of children’s institutio
Global policy makers are advocating that institution-living orphans and abandoned children (OAC) be moved as quickly as possible to a residential family setting and that institutional care be used as a last resort.
This report is the result of a workshop held with a group of young care-leavers drawn from ten different charitable children’s institutions or rehabilitation centres and of a questionnaire carried out on the young care-leavers.
Experts gathered in Carmona Spain to examine the results of policy relevant systemic reviews on social welfare and cash transfers. Meeting delegates explored the findings of reviews on integration of social welfare services and cash transfers in Ghana, Chile, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Kenya.
This technical assessment report uses a transformative social protection framework adapted for studying the provisions and practice in alternative care and adoption in Kenya.
In this meta-analysis of 75 studies on more than 3,888 children in 19 different countries, the intellectual development of children living in children's homes (orphanages) was compared with that of children living with their (foster) families.
The first International Conference on Sexual Abuse of the African Child will be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 24–26 September 2007. The aim of the conference is to advance knowledge regarding the various types of sexual abuse and their complexity in the cultural settings of Africa.
A report that identifies gaps and provides recommendations for protecting and supporting girls living on the streets. It provides models of good practices from Ghana, Kenya and Zimbabwe.