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COVID-19 Resource Center
Resources on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it relates to child protection and children's care.
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Ukraine Response
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resources, news and other key documents related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Ukraine and surrounding countries.
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The OPT Humanitarian Crisis
This section includes news related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting Gaza and other parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. This section is updated regularly.
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Visit the Transforming Children's Care Collaborative, aimed at establishing more strategic sector-wide collaboration.
Visit the resource hub on transforming systems of care, including the transitioning of residential care services.
Cross sectoral global coalition working to redirect funding away from orphanages towards family strengthening and address the issues of orphanage voluntourism and orphanage trafficking.
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Explore the Practitioner Hub, an online library containing practitioner-related resources organized around the components of the care system.
The December 2025 Better Care Network newsletter highlights recent research, resources, and guidance related to children’s care and protection globally. This edition features notable guidance including General Comment No. 10 on Children Without Parental Care under the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and Care Systems Reform, and the “Childhood at Risk on a Heating Planet” brief exploring how climate change heightens vulnerabilities for children without parental care.
The article highlights a deeply troubling crisis facing street-connected children in Pakistan, who remain largely invisible to authorities and are subject to widespread sexual exploitation and abuse, exacerbated by poverty, lack of safe shelter, limited social services, and criminalisation of street life. It underscores how these children — often surviving through informal labor or begging — are at high risk of predation and violence, with cultural stigma and weak enforcement of child protection laws leaving them with few avenues for safety or support.
Countries that sign the Global Charter on Children's Care Reform are encouraged to make their own commitments describing specific actions they will take to realise the aims of the Charter. This guidance document aims to support governments to design ambitious, measurable, and context-specific commitments that align with the Charter’s principles.
This technical brief describes how climate change is a child protection crisis that disproportionately affects children in East Asia and the Pacific, driving displacement, family separation, violence, and overwhelming already-strained protection services. Investing in climate-resilient child protection systems strengthens families and communities to prevent and respond to climate-related risks, while ensuring climate adaptation efforts are more effective, inclusive, and sustainable.
In this video, practitioners, faith leaders, and a Kafaalah caregiver share experiences in promoting and strengthening Kafaalah as an important part of family-based alternative care in Kenya.
