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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2018: Progress in the child-friendliness of African governments
This report tracks governments’ performance in improving the condition and wellbeing of children, and examines how countries are doing, for example, vis-à-vis their neighbours and over the years. We did this using the Child-Friendliness Index (CFI), a rig
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Child Participation Strategy for Eastern African Countries
Published by the ACPF, the African Child Policy Forum, this publication is intended to provide governments, civil society organisations, UN agencies and other actors working on child rights in Easter Africa with a basic framework for integrating and advan
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Children's Well-Being and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa
This policy brief examines how work impacts children’s opportunities to learn, their physical health, as well as their subjective well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on research presented by Young Lives and Save the Children at an East African Regio
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The African Report on Violence against Children
The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) is an independent, non-for-profit, pan-African institution for policy research and dialogue on the African Child. This report aims to both inform and accelerate efforts to prevent and respond to violence against child
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The African Children's Charter Project: Promoting the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
The African Children’s Charter Project (ACCP) is a multi-partner, multi-location four-year project whose central goal is to promote the implementation of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) in the African Union. This publica
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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2013: Towards greater accountability to Africa's children
The 2013 African report on child wellbeing, prepared under the theme "Towards greater accountability to Africa's children", by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), reports that Africa has become a better place for children compared to five years ago, al
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Child-sensitive Social Protection in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
A publication by the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), prepared in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as part of a series of background papers written to inform The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2013. The paper explores soci
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Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Promising actions and persisting challenges
Understanding how and why harmful cultural and traditional practices such as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) persist continues to enthuse many of the human rights actors. Often associated with maintaining cultural identity and preventing moral decline of
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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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Africa: The New Frontier for Intercountry adoption. Addis Ababa: The African Child Policy Forum
The report provides an analysis of the law and practice of intercountry adoption in Africa, with the aim of informing debate on conceptualising, developing and implementing polices, laws, programmes and research in relation to intercountry adoption in Afr
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The African Report on Child Wellbeing 2011. Budgeting for Children
This 2011 edition of The African Report on Child Wellbeing is the second in a series of reports published biennially by The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) as their contribution to putting Africa’s children on the public and political agenda, and to hol
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New Scorecard reveals wide gap between rhetoric and reality in Africa. The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) Press Release
Launched at the Africa Day, a new Scorecard that ranks 52 African governments’ performance in budgeting for their children, reveals not only a continent of sharp contrasts in terms of the region’s investment in children, but also the wide gap that exists