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We curate high-quality, practical resources to support care reform across Africa. Here you will find evidence-based tools, policy documents, training materials, country case studies, and powerful stories developed by Transform Alliance Africa and trusted partners working to end orphanage care and strengthen family-based child protection systems.
TAA Resources
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Access practical tools, evidence briefs, training curricula, and real-world insights developed directly from our work across the continent.
External Resources
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A carefully selected collection of valuable reports, global frameworks, research papers, films, and toolkits from leading organisations.
Ending Institutional Care in Africa — Questions & Answers
Substantively researched answers to frequently asked questions about children living in institutions across Africa. Covers why closure is necessary, what happens to children and staff, and how communities respond.
Prioritizing Families and Communities
Key information on Transform Alliance Africa in a snapshot — our vision, mission, and the reasons why an Africa free of orphanages where all children grow in safe, loving families is both possible and necessary.
Statement: Protect Children in Sudan's Child Care Institutions during Crises
Children in institutions are 6 times more vulnerable. This statement calls on African governments and the international community to urgently protect children in Sudan's child care institutions during the ongoing conflict.
Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (DGD 2021)
TAA's submission to the UN CRC Day of General Discussion on Children's Rights and Alternative Care 2021, calling on governments to design, build and maintain sustainable child protection systems across Africa.
COVID-19: Action for Children Without Parental Care in Africa
A call to action in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to pervasive poverty and shocking levels of violence against children across Africa — particularly those without adequate parental care.
TAA Kampala Declaration 2018
A call to African governments to commit to care reform and ensure all children grow and thrive in safe and loving families, made by Transform Alliance Africa members and partners in Kampala.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: Rwanda
Overview of child care and protection in Rwanda — existing social protection programmes, key policy and legislative frameworks, alternative care approaches, and a summary of progress in care reform.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: Sudan
Overview of child care and protection in Sudan — existing social protection programmes, key policy and legislative frameworks, alternative care approaches, and a summary of progress in care reform.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: South Africa
Overview of child care and protection in South Africa — including the child protection system reform underway in Gauteng province, key policy frameworks, and alternative care developments.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: Ghana
Overview of child care and protection in Ghana — existing social protection programmes, key policy and legislative frameworks, alternative care approaches including foster care and domestic adoption.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: Tanzania
Overview of child care and protection in Tanzania — social protection programmes, key policy frameworks, alternative care approaches, and efforts to document the beliefs and attitudes that lead to institutionalisation.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: Uganda
Overview of child care and protection in Uganda — social protection programmes, key policy frameworks, and the work underway to build a child protection system in the district of Tororo.
TAA Country Fact Sheet: Kenya
Overview of child care and protection in Kenya — existing social protection programmes, key policy and legislative frameworks, alternative care approaches, and care reform progress.
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.