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Outline of the presentation
• Why is Save the Children focusing on
family strengthening and parenting
work? What are the drivers behind our
work?
• How are we addressing it today?
• Two examples/case studies;
1) Positive Discipline/parenting
2) Kinship care research
• Next steps and way forward
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Definition of FAMILIES
• Save the Children understands families as:
• All adult family members have a crucial role to play to ensure that children survive, thrive and develop according to their age, gender and their evolving capacity .
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“social groups connected by kinship, marriage, adoption or choice. Family
members have clearly defined relationships, long-term
commitments, mutual obligations and responsibilities, and a shared sense
of togetherness. Families are the primary providers of protection,
support and socialisation for children and youth.”
Why focus on FAMILIES and PARENTING?
• New variants on traditional family
structures have emerged in
response to social change,
conflict, urbanization, HIV/AIDS
and other crises. Reduced
number of potential care givers.
• Institutional care can cause
serious harm to children
• Research demonstrates that
children brought up without the
nurture and attachment to adults
offered in a safe caring family
environment suffer adverse
psychological and development
outcomes.
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Why focus on FAMILIES and PARENTING?
• In many countries a large, majority of children are experiencing
violence in the home, often for disciplinary purposes.
• Corporal punishment is an ineffective way of teaching the child, it
can damage the parent- child relationship and can easily escalate to
severe child abuse.
• Stronger focus on violence prevention and to address root causes
• Children´s voices and recommendations
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Save the Children’s organisational FOUNDATIONS
• The Convention on
the Rights of the
Child
– articles 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 12, 18, 19, 27,
• Strengthening
community based and
national child
protection systems
• Save the Children´s
Theory of Change
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Current approach: CHILD PROTECTION
• Family strengthening policies that apply to all families in order to
empower and equip parents/care givers with the skills and resources
so that children grow and thrive in a safe family environment
– eg parental services and helplines, positive discipline and other parental
education and economic strengthening policies. Strengthening social work.
• Policies and services that are designed for children at high risk of
neglect, abuse, exploitation and violence in the home and
communities
– eg home visitation policies and programs, outreach programs to children living
outside family care, conditional cash transfers, family-based alternative care
options (kinship care, foster care, guardianship or adoption).
• Special focus on children with disabilities, from ethnic minorities,
migrant children.
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Current approach: other SECTORS
• Education: Early Childhood Development Programs targetting parents for child
education and development.
• Health and nutrition: improve health and nutrition of mothers, newborn babies and
children, social protection, with special attention to poor and vulnerable communities.
• Child poverty: ensure economic and poverty reducing programmes and policies
focus on breaking the inter-generational transfer of poverty (livelihood, social
protection, cash transfers)
• Child Rights and Business Principles: promoting work and life balances - including
parental leave polices (fathers and mothers), day care provision, length and flexibility
of work hours, provision for pregnant and breastfeeding women, etc.
• Fatherhood programs: Target fathers for gender equality, protection, care and well
being for children. Men Care – A Global Fatherhood Campaign.
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Save the Children´s Child protection BREAKTHROUGH
2030
Goal: All children thrive in a safe family environment and no child is placed in harmful institutions
Keep children safe
Children grow up in a safe family environment free from
harm caused by violence, exploitation, abuse or
neglect
Strengthen families & prevent unnecessary
separation
Children benefit from quality care in their own families or in other family based care
alternatives
Securing family reunification in
humanitarian crises
Separated and unaccompanied children are provided with adequate FTR services and children at risk
receive support.
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OBJECTIVES by 2015
Keep children safe• Public and community leaders, parents, caregivers and children demonstrate higher acceptance
and knowledge of non-violent child rearing methods.
• Trained parents and caregivers develop supportive, non-violent relationships and effective
communication with their children through the use of positive discipline techniques.
Strengthen families and prevent unnecessary separation• Save the Children in ten countries have developed and will be implementing family- and
community-based prevention and alternative care models to demonstrate the feasibility and
impact of quality care provision.
• In at least five countries where residential care is an issue, the licensing and regulation of
institutions will be enforced and the number of children living in them will be reduced.
Securing family reunification in humanitarian crises• In at least five large rapid onset emergencies where Save the Children is working, registration of
separated and/or unaccompanied children will begin within 72 hours, with tracing and reunification
immediately following.
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ADVOCACY objectives by 2015
• Eight additional States ban physical and
humiliating punishment against children in all
settings.
• At least ten States adopt and implement laws and
policies that promote family and community-
based care in line with the international guidelines
for the alternative care of children.
• In emergency situations States commit to provide
coordinated assistance and support to
unaccompanied and separated children, where
relevant.
• The post-2015 framework integrates goals and
targets that include an explicit focus on improved
protection for children, ideally with a specific child
protection goal.11
Child Protection MONITORING & EVALUATION
GLOBAL OUTCOME INDICATORS:
1. Utilisation of child protection services: % of children and caregivers in a 12-month
period who have used prevention or response interventions delivered or supported by Save the Children
2. Quality of child protection services: % of prevention & response interventions
supported by Save the Children which meet quality standards
3. Child Protection Legislation and Policy change: # of countries where one or more
policy or legislative changes to improve children’s protection rights in line with the four CPI priority areas
has taken place in the last 12 months with the support of Save the Children
Humanitarian Outcome Indicators relating to CPIE (ie: FTR)
Child Protection MONITORING & EVALUATION
• Developing new framework for
the Breakthrough, with a focus on
secondary national level data
• New Initiative with Better Care
Network and working with CP
MERG to harvest data from
MICS/DHS to produce a technical
brief and country analysis
examples
• Evaluation synthesis to extract
learning
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Child Protection SIGNATURE PROGRAMS
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Families First
Indonesia
Positive Parenting
Philippines
The Essentia
l package
Malawi
One stop
centers
Tanzania
Sexual violenc
e
DRC
Child Friendly Spaces
Building resilience in children
with
disabilitiesBanglades
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POSITIVE DISCIPLINE in Everyday Parenting
• A training model for parents that
aims at providing an effective
non-punitive child rearing
approach to resolving parent-
child conflict
• Developed by Save the Children
and Joan Durrant at the
University of Manitoba, Canada
Strengthening relationships and
understanding children’s perspectives
Promoting self-regulation of parent
and child
Reducing punishment
Approaching challenges as a
problem-solver and a mentor
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE in Everyday Parenting
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Identifying your long-term goals
Providing warmth(safety, security)
Providing structure(information , guidance)
Understanding how children think and feel
PROBLEM SOLVINGPositive
Discipline
For effective IMPLEMENTATION
• Advocacy for legal reform
against corporal punishment
in all settings including the
home
• Awareness rasising and
community mobilisation
• Child participation is a
central component in the
strategy to end physical and
humiliating punishment.
• Special efforts are made to
reach fathers and male
caregivers.
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Positive Discipline training is combined
with:
Building a
social
movement for
and with
children
Creating safe
homes and
school
environments
Reaching out to
prevent violence
BEFORE it happens
The Philippines – INTERVENTION MODEL
Supporting safety networks on
community level
Children’s right to
grow up free from
violence supported
by law and the use
of positive
discipline
Understanding and Improving Informal Alternative Care
Mechanisms with a focus on Kinship care in West Central
Africa
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Participatory Research on KINSHIP CARE
WHY? Rationale & objective
• An estimated 15.8% of children
under the age of 15 years in West
and Central Africa do not live with
their biological parents.
• Only a very small number (0.002%)
live in formal alternative care,
including institutional care.
• To build knowledge on
endogenous care practices within
families and communities, especially
informal kinship care.
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WHERE and with WHO the research has been undertaken:
• Democratic Republic of Congo,
Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
• 17 communities (3 rural villages, 11
urban and 3 semi-urban) across the
three countries
• Across the three countries over 200
people were involved in country
research teams
• More than 1100 stakeholders were
consulted during the research
process
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Main FINDINGS
• Kinship care needs to be better
recognized and supported as
endogenous coping
mechanism
• Informality has weaknesses
and strengths
• Mixed outcomes for children
• Lack of regulation but against
formalisation
• Need to strengthen
identification, monitoring,
prevention and response to the
concerns of children living in
kinship care
• Need to mitigate the root
causes of separation and
understand family
compositions and living
arrangements
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KINSHIP CARE research
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In my vision I saw that children are living with their biological
parents and are going to school. There is peace and unity, There
is quality education, health services, and better care. Children are
taking part in decisions making and the child´s voices is
respected” 17 years old boy in Sierra Leone
NEXT STEPS on parenting and family
strengthening
• Follow up on the recommendations from the kinship care
research.
• Conduct a longitudinal study on the impact of Positive
Discipline programs in low and medium income countries
and adapt a methodogy for teachers.
• Integrate Positive Discipline into fatherhood program and
other parenting/family and education programs.
• Enhanced collaboration with other sectors (including
private sector)
• Develop a comprehensive system for monitoring the
impact of the breakthrough in all countries where Save
the Children works.
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