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Orphaned children
An orphan is a child whose parents are dead or have abandoned them permanently. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan
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Orphans and Ebola: Estimating the secondary impact of a public health crisis
The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa is the largest to date by far. Ebola Virus Disease causes disproportionate mortality among the working-age population, resulting in far more mortality for parents of young children than other health cri
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Children, Orphanages, and Families: A summary of research to help guide faith-based action
This resource aims to provide a concise overview of a range of studies and findings that can inform approaches to caring for children who, through orphan-hood, abandonment, or other causes, have been separated from parental care. Included are current glob
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Policy Brief: Protection and Care for Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Emergencies
Save the Children’s legal and policy framework for the protection of unaccompanied and separated children (UNSC) is based on international treaties, guidelines, and principles. From these documents, the following are of particular relevance to UNSC: The r
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The ZAPP-UZ Project- Psychosocial Support for Orphans and Children Exposed to HIV in Chitungwiza
The Save the Children Zimbabwe (SCZ) and Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project-University of Zimbabwe (ZAPP-UZ) partnership (2004-2014) was anchored on raising awareness on PMTCT, promoting and providing psychosocial support services and training for infected
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The Palanhar Plus Approach: Strengthening a Cash Transfer Programme for Orphans and other Vulnerable Children in Dungarpur, Rajasthan
Child Sensitive Social Protection (CSSP) is a Save the Children initiative aiming to reduce vulnerability and poverty of children by ensuring that social protection measures lead to meaningful investment in children. CSSP is a ‘social protection plus’ app
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Safeguarding children in emergencies: A pocket guide
Keeping Children Safe has developed the toolkit ‘Child safeguarding measures for use in Emergencies', a resource to help organisations to develop and implement child safeguarding measures during emergencies. To accompany the toolkit, Keeping Children Safe
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The Essential Package: Holistically Addressing the Needs of Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers Affected by HIV and AIDS
The Essential Package (EP) is a comprehensive set of tools and guides for program managers and service providers that enables programs to address the unique needs and competencies of young children, particularly those affected or infected by HIV/AIDS, in
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Intercountry Adoption- An African Perspective
Africa has become the new frontier for intercountry adoption. Between 2003 and 2010, the number of children adopted from Africa increased three-fold, yet Africa seems to be ill-equipped in law, policy and practice, to provide its children with enough safe
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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
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Transforming Cash Transfers: Beneficiary and community perspectives on the Cash Transfer for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Kenya
This is one of six country reports from the project: Transforming cash transfers: beneficiary and community perspectives on social protection and programming. Cash transfers are predictable payments made directly to poor people. Cash transfers have been s
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Masculinidades y políticas de equidad de género: Reflexiones a partir de la encuesta Images y una revisión de políticas en Brasil, Chile y México
This report presents discussions and recommendations for the development of policies that involve men as active participants for gender equity achievement. It contains data from IMAGES (International Men And Gender Equality Survey) and a policy analysis c
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Child poverty in Dungarpur, Rajasthan. Gross violation of children’s rights
As India moves ahead on the path of economic growth, inequality continues to be widened alongside. Many people are excluded from the benefits of economic progress and children living in poor households suffer the most. This report presents a disheartening