There is no proper monitoring in preventing
separation among families or promoting re-unification and ensuring the
existence of appropriate alternative care. Long term impact of various forms of
alternative care placement and support interventions on OVC have not been well studied. The CSOs can do
in-depth research in this area in collaboration with UNICEF and other key
actors in order to ensure that data is made available that would support strong
advocacy at the National level.
Lesson learnt is that in alternative care short
term effectiveness of child-centered group homes have been on fulfilling a
child’s basic need for shelter, food and guardianship only what about other
parts like familiar atmosphere. This gap is lack of compliance to UN guideline
on alternative care.
Adequate resources allocation are required to
ensure training of social welfare workforce and enable them to conduct
consistent and appropriate monitoring and supervision of all the facilities
which provide(s) alternative care to children.
There is a need to create awareness in community to
accept volunteering to provide care to needy children and ensure that they are
protected and cared for the best interest of the child.
The seven adopted new regulation to enforce the law
of child act 2009 should widely disseminated to ensure that every person
providing alternative care is fully aware of the conditions.
There should be a well designed advocacy strategy at
a national that advocates for the adoption of alternative care as a solution to
the increasing number of children who are at risk of losing parental care. The
current Foster care guidelines need to be revised so that they are in line with
the UN Alternative Care Guidelines endorsed by the UNGASS in November 2010.
Similarly, the CSOs should target the
Department of Social Welfare as well as the Ministry of Justice to
revise the Adoption guidelines in the
country, so that the length of adoption is shortened.
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