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Interventions for Promoting Reintegration & Reducing Harmful Behavior &...
This report is a review of 11 studies in 12 countries on effectiveness of intervention for street-connected children and young people that promote reintegration.Alternative careChild...
View ArticleVolunteer Tourism Practices in Ghana: A practice approach
Qualitative methods including participant observations and face-to-face interviews were used to examine the impact of volunteer tourism at a school and orphanage in Ghana, one of the most popular...
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Monitoring HIV and AIDS Related Policy Reforms: A road map to strengthen...
Countries with high HIV burden often have low policy development, advocacy, and monitoring capacity. This manuscript describes the increased focus on policy development and implementation by the United...
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Expanding World Vision's Impact Through Community Health Workers
In 2015, a global census of community health workers (CHWs) was conducted by World Vision International to assist in developing CHW technical capacity statements, grant proposals, and fundraising and...
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Improving SRHR Education by Using the Train the Trainers Approach
In twelve African countries Train the Trainer approaches have been rolled out in order to improve the quality of SRHR education and HIV prevention interventions for young people. This evaluation study...
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Better Care, Better Volunteering
With growing interest in volunteer-tourism around the world, there is an increasing trend of volunteering within residential care centres such as orphanages and children’s homes. There is a critical...
View ArticleNot Enough There, Too Many Here: Understanding geographical imbalances in the...
The objective of this paper is to provide better a understanding of the determinants of geographical imbalances in the distribution of health personnel, and to identify and assess the strategies...
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Cash for Care: Making Social Protection Work for Children Care and Well-being
In order for cash transfers to improve care, social service workers must not be over-burdened with excessive administration of grants and they must promote meaningful links between social and child...
View ArticleOrphanage Caregivers' Perceptions of Children's Emotional Needs
This study explores Ghanaian institutional caregivers' views of children's emotional and relational needs with the aim of understanding these caregivers' capacities to provide effective care for...
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Motivation and Retention of Health Workers in Developing Countries: A...
Absence of properly trained and motivated workforce is a key constraint in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The authors of this research undertook a systematic review to consolidate...
View ArticleWho Cares for Children? A Descriptive Study of Care-Related Data Available...
This paper argues that better use and mining of existing national household surveys has great potential to inform child protection policy and programming, resulting in increased awareness of this...
View ArticleImproving Child Wellbeing and Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of social...
Adequate transfer size, availability of child care services, greater use of sensitisation opportunities, and appropriate roles and responsibilities for social workers and other programme staff are...
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From Evidence to Action: The story of cash transfers and impact evaluation in...
Country case studies highlight the importance of building the capacity of the social service workforce to deliver and scale up effective social protection programs.ChildrenCommunitySocial...
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Building a National Child Protection System in Ghana: From evidence to policy...
In Ghana, the process of strengthening the child protection system is following the appropriate path from evidence to policy to practice. It began in 2010 with analysis and mapping of the existing...
View ArticleRoutine Monitoring Systems for Integrated Community Case Management Programs:...
Integrated community case management (iCCM) programs are expanding rapidly in many low– and middle–income countries, particularly in sub–Saharan Africa. This paper aims to synthesize lessons learned...
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Ending Violence in Childhood
A total of 75% of the world's children have experienced some form of violence. This report makes recommendations for addressing the issue through local action to promote child rights and prevent...
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Violence Against Children and Care in Africa: A discussion paper
Violence against children is prevalent in Africa, including in family and alternative care settings. Addressing the problem requires several strategies, including investing in a skilled and...
View ArticleParental Participation in Child Protection Practice: The experiences of...
This is the first study in Ghana to explore child protection workers and parents’ experiences on participatory practices. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 8 child protection workers...
View ArticleCash Plus: Linking cash transfers to services and sectors
In recognition of the limitations of cash alone, governments (sometimes in partnership with other actors) have introduced ‘Cash Plus’ initiatives, which provide regular cash transfers plus additional...
View ArticleExploring the Attributes and Practices of Alumni Associations that Advance...
Through a multi-case study, this research explores how three higher education alumni associations organize to influence social change in Georgia, Ghana, and Mongolia. All organizations started as...
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