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1. Why Care Matters: The importance of adequate care for children and society

   

   This report reflects the views and collective expertise of 15 national organisations working hands on with millions of vulnerable children worldwide. These organisations have come together to form Family for Every Child, an alliance aimed at enabling more

   Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): Family for Every Child Author(s): Csáky, Corinna

2. The Best Interests of the Child in Intercountry Adoption

   

   From the perspective of intercountry adoption, this study responds, in particular, to the question: what is it that enables a policy, process, decision, or practice to be qualified as either respectful of or in violation of the best interests of the child

   Publication year: 2014 Publisher(s): UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund Author(s): Cantwell, Nigel

3. Child Protection Issue Brief: Alternative Care

   

   This Issue Brief addresses Alternative Care and the relating key concepts of: unaccompanied children, separated children, caregivers, family tracing and reunification, and child-headed households. The UN Refugee Agency is in a unique position to emphasize

   Publication year: 2014

4. Development perspectives of foster care in Armenia: Research Analysis Results

   

   This report, produced by the Center for Educational Research and Consulting (CERC) and Save the Children, summarises the broader research study ‘Development Perspectives of Foster Care in Armenia’, which examined the foster care pilot programme introduced

   Publication year: 2013 Publisher(s): Save the Children

5. Save the Children Intercountry Adoption Policy Brief

   

   Globally, tens of thousands of children are adopted from one country to another every year, with the vast majority of them being adopted from developing to developed countries. While the number of international adoptions in the last several years has decl

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): Save the Children

6. Child Abandonment and its Prevention in Europe

   

   Article 7 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly states that every child has “the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents”. When a child is abandoned, this right is violated. Infants and young children are those m

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): The University of Nottingham Author(s): Browne, Kevin | Chou, Shihning | Whitfield, Kate

7. Adopting better care: Improving adoption services around the world

   

   Adopting better care promotes positive care choices for children living without parental care. It examines domestic and inter-country adoption and aims to explore why adoption is so rarely used globally. The paper also explores whether or not an expansion

   Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): EveryChild Author(s): Dunn, Andrew | Parry-Williams, John | Delap, Emily

8. Human trafficking in the Republic of Serbia: Report for the period 2000-2010

   

   ASTRA’s Report on Human Trafficking in Serbia for the period 2000-2010 examines the modalities of incorporation of the two most relevant international documents – UN Palermo Protocol and Council of Europe’s Convention on Action against Trafficking in Huma

   Publication year: 2011 Publisher(s): ASTRA, Anti-trafficking Action Author(s): Andelkovic, Marija | Besirevic, Violeta | Vukasovic, Tamara | Gligoric, Marijana | ...

9. HAITI: “Expediting” intercountry adoptions in the aftermath of a natural disaster … preventing future harm

   

   Haiti has been a 'popular' country of origin, meaning that thousands of children were at some stage of the adoption process – albeit simply "identified" as potentially adoptable – when the earthquake struck. There were diverse and contrasting responses by

   Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): ISS, International Social Services Author(s): Dambach, Mia | Baglietto, Christina

10. National experiences on the management of the demand for intercountry adoption

    

    A ChildONEurope study that compares and analyses the different laws and practices in the field of intercountry adoptions within EU countries and their way of cooperating and managing the demand of their residents. In particular, the survey aims to:- compa

    Publication year: 2012 Publisher(s): UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Author(s): Buia, Anna

11. Alternative Childcare Guidelines on Community-Based Childcare, Reunification and Reintegration Program, Foster Care, Adoption and Institutional Care Service

    

    Ethiopia’s Ministry of Women’s Affairs has revised and updated the country’s alternative care guidelines, which general objective is “to establish a regulatory instrument on childcare systems with a view to contribute towards improving the quality of care

    Publication year: 2009 Publisher(s): Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Women’s Affairs

12. Improving Care Options for Children in Ethiopia through Understanding Institutional Child Care and Factors Driving Institutionalization

    

    This report describes a study developed through consultations between the Ethiopian Ministry of Women's Affairs, FHI, and UNICEF. It is the first study of its kind to take an in-depth look at institutional care in Ethiopia. The overall objective of the st

    Publication year: 2010 Publisher(s): FHI 360

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