What Works in Tackling Child Abuse and Neglect? A Manual for Policy Makers, Managers, and Professionals
Tinje Berge-Le Clercg, Mariska de Batt from the Netherlands Youth Institute | 2013 | 1,706KB
This manual is the main outcome of the European Commission Daphne III programme, Prevent and Combat Child Abuse: What works? Involving regional exchanges and research from five countries (Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands), this manual brings together knowledge on what works in tackling child abuse. The manual suggests evidence and practice-based prevention and response strategies against child abuse and neglect, including programs and services that have been shown to be successful in strengthening family care. View document

Sibling caringscapes: Time–space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda
Ruth Evans, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading | Thursday, September 20, 2012
This paper investigates the time–space practices of young people caring for their siblings in youthheaded households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda. Based on qualitative exploratory research with young people heading households, their siblings, NGO workers and community members, the article develops the notion of sibling ‘caringscapes’ to analyse young people’s everyday practices and caring pathways through time and space. View document

Resiliency of children in child-headed households in Rwanda: implications for community based psychosocial interventions
Laura May Ward & Carola Eyber | Friday, July 06, 2012
Based on participatory research with children living in child headed households in Rwanda, this article focuses on the resilience of children facing extreme hardship and adversity. While the research focuses on child headed households, this study’s findings can be considered more broadly for interventions for other vulnerable children to support their development of innovative coping strategies. View document

The Lives of Children Heading Families
Stories as told to Shimelis Tsegaye, ACPF | 2009
Developed while researching child-headed households in five Ethiopian towns and their rural surroundings, this book presents the experiences and stories of individual child household heads. View document

The experiences and priorities of young people who care for their siblings in Tanzania and Uganda
Dr. Ruth Evans , Geography and Environmental Science, School of Human and Environmental Sciences, University of Reading | Friday, August 13, 2010
This report presents key findings from a small-scale pilot research project that explored the experiences and priorities of young people caring for their siblings in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda. View document

Child Carers: Child-led Research with Children who are Carers: Angola, Nigeria, Uganda and Zimbabwe
Save the Children | Friday, August 13, 2010
This is the summary report on the research phase of a project looking at the needs of child-carers in four African countries; Nigeria, Uganda, Angola and Zimbabwe. The research consisted of a literature review and participatory child-led research in one site in each of the four countries. View document

'We are managing our own lives ': Life transitions and care in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda
Ruth Evans, Department of Geography, University of Reading, UK | Thursday, July 01, 2010
Explores the ways that young people express their agency and negotiate complex lifecourse transitions according to gender, age and inter- and intra-generational norms in sibling-headed households affected by AIDS in East Africa.

Because We Care: Programming Guidance for Children Deprived of Parental Care
Elizabeth Oswald | Monday, November 30, 2009
Provides recommendations for World Vision and partner agencies on general alternative care principles and analysis of alternative care models. View document

Giving Hope: Asset Based Empowerment Methodology
Church World Service | Monday, January 05, 2009 | 170KB
Shares the philosophy and key components of the African development initiative Giving Hope that works with youth caregivers through an asset-based empowerment methodology. The approach facilitate the restoration of youth caregivers’ sense of self, belonging, power, and collective responsibility. View document

Faces of Positive Change: Highlighting Positive Change in the Lives of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia
Save the Children Federation | 2009 | 2.44MB
Highlights successes and leasons learned from the PC3 Program. Serves as a companion piece to the Toolkit for Positive Change View document