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This guidance document aims to support current care reform efforts in Côte d’Ivoire, taking into account the specific needs of children with disabilities without parental care. Developed in a participatory process involving a panel of national stakeholders, it is intended for Ivorian decision-makers and all key actors to ensure that family reintegration and foster care become a reality for these children.
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The main objective of this assessment and report is to obtain knowledge about children with disabilities deprived of or separated from their families, or at risk of being so, and the alternative care arrangements available to these children in the Philippines. Furthermore, whether there is scope for any improvements to alternative care measures in the Philippines, in line with international standards.
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This study was carried out in Côte d’Ivoire in 2023 among families of disabled children who had decided to separate from their child, and among professionals in various care structures. This report attempts to identify the circumstances and causes of separation, as well as the types of placements preferred. The study also seeks to analyse current practices for preventing separation and opportunities for family reintegration.
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This document is aimed at professionals involved in the care and support of children with disabilities and their families. It is also a tool for decision-makers and other players in the intervention chain who are likely to undertake major reforms at various levels in the social action, education, health, employment, social protection and justice sectors.
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Since 2014, ISS GS Alternative Care Programs work tirelessly in order to pave the way for a better future for all children without parental care or at risk of separation from their families, with a special focus on children with disabilities. In 2023, our project “A better future is possible” was implemented in 6 countries: this report highlights the project’s core strategies as well as the 2023 achievements we are most proud of.
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Investing in the strengthening of families and alternative family-type care measures, by putting the needs of children at the heart of the approach, is crucial if we wish to promote the development of each child whatever their specificities and needs. The Child Protection Authorities of Ivory Coast through the Directorate of Child Protection (DPE) are committed in this direction. DPE requested and contributed to the realization of this evaluation carried out by International Social Service (General Secretariat based in Geneva) in partnership with SSI France, SSI West Africa and the Ivorian NGO Vie Saine.
The objectives of this evaluation are multiple, it aims firstly to obtain a picture (as objective as possible) of the situation of disabled children deprived or separated from their families or at risk of being so and of the replacement protection available for these children. This evaluation, which includes numerous recommendations, will help guide DPE in the development and implementation of its deinstitutionalization policy, ensuring that disabled children are not left behind.
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The Technical Guidance on Family Reintegration Procedure in Haiti is a practical guide for the social workforce from the State, Civil Society Organisations and NGOs working with children separated from their families and being placed in residential care institutions or in other forms of alternative care in Haiti. It promotes the development of a well-connected, regional and national network of child protection professionals, and proposes an eight-step procedure to deliver quality reintegration plans in the specific context of Haiti.
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The publication proposes an evaluation of the situation of older children’s adoption and draws the principles to respect in order to ensure the best chances possible of interviewing experts and professionals in its network.
It also reviewed numerous publications on the adoption of older children.
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This tool offers a child-friendly way to collect and keep all relevant information relating to the life story of the child (main stages of his or her development and progress, important life events) and is a tool for the professionals to address with the child-sensitive issues (about his/her origins, the reason for the placement). The Lifebook is also a support for the preparation of the child for the life plan designed for him or her. A digital version of the Child Life book is in process and will be soon available.
Here is an excerpt from the book.
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This practical Handbook for professionals offers:
1) A method and procedures to support political authorities and field actors involved in designing permanency planning for children with disabilities in residential care;
2) Practical tools for practitioners in charge of children with disabilities (grids for the observation of the child, case management tools, guidance on the preparation of the child for his/her new environment, etc.).
