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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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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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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
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The child status index usage assessment
The Child Status Index (CSI), created in 2008, is a tool used by community caregivers to capture children’s status across the six domains of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs for children who are orphaned and made vulne
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Men Who Care: Multi-Country Qualitative Study of Men in Non-Traditional Caregiving Roles
“Men Who Care” is a five-country (Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico and South Africa) qualitative study that seeks to explore care issues by listening to men who are involved in non-traditional forms of care work – in the family and professional realms. The st
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Why Strengthening the Linkages between Research and Practice is Important: Learning from Young Lives
Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate around how to most effectively use research evidence to inform policy processes. A two-year study led by Young Lives set out to identify challenges and opportunities for translating research into poli
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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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Education Reform in Mozambique: Lessons and Challenges
This study is a joint product of the World Bank and the Mozambique Ministries of Education and Culture (MEC) and Planning and Economic Development (MPD). The report opens with a brief description of the conceptual framework that guided the analysis as wel
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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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Stopping violence against children. The Tanzania Violence against Children Study and the National Response
This report lists the key features of Tanzania's National Plan of Action to Prevent and Respond to Violence Against Children. It is the national response plan to the critical concerns identified by the 2009 Violence against Children Survey report led by t
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“BANA BONSU MBETU” All are our children. Save the Children Kinship Research in West Central Africa- Democratic Republic of Congo
Save the Children is undertaking innovative participative research in West and Central Africa on informal alternative care mechanisms,with a particular focus on kinship care. An estimated 15.8% of children under the age of 15 years in West and Central Afr
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Building Protection and Resilience: Synergies for child protection systems and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS
This paper presents findings from a study commissioned by the Inter Agency Task Team on Children affected by HIV and AIDS. The study aims to better understand the ways in which child protection systems can respond to the needs of children living with and
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10 Steps forward to Deinstitutionalisation: Building communities to support childrens’ rights
Terre des hommes Nepal Delegation Office teamed up with Hope for Himalayan Kids, to produce a hands-on manual on how to reduce the number of children in institutions and promote family-based care. The first step of the manual is building community awarene