Researching the Linkages Between Social Protection and Children’s Care in Rwanda: The VUP and Its Effects on Child Wellbeing, Care...
Keetie Roelen & Helen Shelmerdine from the Centre for Social Protection (CSP) | 01 April 2014
This report features the results of, and recommendations based on, a study conducted in Rwanda which investigates the links between the cash transfer program “Vision 2020 Umurenge Programme (VUP),” child well-being, and children’s care and family reunification. View document

Report of the 2nd Pan-African Conference on Parenting 2013
YONECO & Parenting in Africa Network | 31 December 2013 | 1.4 MB
This report summarises the presentations and conclusions from the 2nd Pan-African annual conference on parenting held on the 16-17th October 2013 in Malawi on the theme of "Understanding realities of teenage parenting: a special focus on adolescents (boys and girls) with parenting responsibilities." View document

Program P: A Manual for Engaging Men in Fatherhood, Caregiving, and Maternal and Child Health
REDMAS, Promundo, EME | 05 March 2014
The Program P Manual is a resource developed as part of the global MenCare campaign that identifies best practices on engaging men in maternal and child health, caregiving, and preventing violence against women and children, through the lens of gender equality. Though the main focus of Program P is to engage men via the public health sector, the manual also provides tools and resources for individuals and organizations that want to work more generally with men as caregivers and fathers. View document

Inter-agency statement on the 2014 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Rights of the Child
New York and Geneva Working Groups on Children Without parental Care | 24 July 2013 | 651 KB
A coalition of over 40 international, regional and national NGOs and networks have issued a joint call to member States of the United Nations General Assembly (UN GA) to focus the 2014 Resolution on the Rights of the Child on strengthening family care and providing appropriate alternative care for children. View document

United Nations General Assembly 2013 Resolution on the 20th Anniversary of the International Year of the Family
United Nations | 18 December 2013 | 339 KB
The United Nations General Assembly adopted on the 18th December 2013 a resolution on Preparations for and observance of the twentieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family. View document

United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on Children's Rights 2013
United Nations | 18 December 2013 | 336 KB
The United Nations General Assembly adopted without a vote four resolutions on children’s rights on the 18th December 2013, focused on the Rights of the Child, the Girl Child, Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Strengthening Collaboration on Child Protection within the United Nations system. View document

Caring for orphaned children in China
Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen R. Fisher | 15 December 2013
This fascinating new book by Dr. Xiaoyuan Shang and Karen Fisher provides a comprehensive and clear picture of the situation of children who are orphaned or abandoned in China. It introduces the context and framework for the alternative care system and China’s welfare system as it applies to children, and provides a profile of orphans and of care arrangements, describing both the formal child welfare system and the informal care system, particularly kinship care. View document

MOLDOVA: Technical Presentation "Protecting Children of Moldova from family separation, abuse, neglect and exploitation"
Dr. Stela Grigorash | 17 October 2013 | 624 KB
The second of two important presentations by Dr. Stela Grigorash, the Director of Partnerships for EveryChild Moldova, on the important work and lessons learnt in reforming the care system in that country. View document

A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Protection Systems, Conference Report
UNICEF, UNHCR, Save the Children and World Vision | 15 September 2013 | 954 KB
This report of a major conference held in New Delhi in November 2012 entitled “A Better Way to Protect ALL Children: The Theory and Practice of Child Protection Systems”, encapsulates the substantive content of the presentations and related discussion; provides an analysis and documents the journey; and suggest an agenda, or at least direction, for future work on Child Protection systems. View document

Effects of Household Size on Cash Transfer Utilization for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Rural Ghana
Mavis Dako-Gyeke, Ph.D and Razak Oduro | 01 March 2013
This qualitative study explored how household size influenced the extent to which the basic needs of orphans and vulnerable children were met through the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program in Ghana. View document