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ACPF, The African Child Policy Forum
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CSO Forum to End Violence against Children: Annual report 2018
The Civil Society Forum to End Violence against Children (CSO Forum) is a broad coalition of civil society organizations operating at the national, regional and global levels to advocate for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.2 an
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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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Violence Against Children in All Care Settings: Africa expert consultation
In 2014, the New York Working Group on Children without Parental Care and the Special Representative for the Secretary General (SRSG) on Violence Against Children (VAC) collaborated to initiate a series of regional expert consultations on children’s prote
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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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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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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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Deprivation of children's liberty as the last resort: A global conference on child justice in Africa- 7th-8th November 2011 Conference Report
The issue of managing or dealing with children coming in conflict with the law has historically haunted nations, and Africa is no exception. Although there have already been important headways, much remains to be done in ensuring child justice in Africa.