External Resources
Discover a carefully curated collection of high-quality external resources — including global guidelines, research reports, policy documents, and practical tools — to support care reform and family-based child care across Africa.
Family Care for Children with Disabilities: Practical Guidance for Frontline Workers
Helps frontline social service workers in low- and middle-income countries work effectively with children with disabilities and their families — written for those with little prior experience in this area.
Short-Term Missions: Guidance to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Comprehensive guidance and better practice standards for short-term missions — for churches, mission agencies, faith-based organisations and donors who support care for orphans and vulnerable children.
Violence Against Children in All Care Settings: Africa Expert Consultation Report
Report from the Africa Expert Consultation on Violence Against Children in All Care Settings, held in Nairobi, Kenya (June 2017), organised by the African Child Policy Forum and Better Care Network.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children
Committee on the Rights of the Child 2021 Day of General Discussion
Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 2009
General Comment No. 10 on Children Without Parental Care
General Comment No. 10 on Children Without Parental Care in the Context of Article 25 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and Care Systems Reform
AGENDA 2040 For an Africa Fit for Children
10 Aspirations for an Africa Fit for Children