UNICEF UPDATE

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• UNICEF UPDATE

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Child Sensitive Social Protection Joint Statement

• Social transfers, social insurance, social
  services and related policies, legislation and
  regulations that consider the impact and results
  for children
• Avoid adverse impacts on children and
  reduce/mitigate social risks that directly affect
  childrens lives
• Intervene as early as possible where children are
  at risk
• Consider age/gender specific risks of children
  throughout the life cycle
• Mitigate the effects of shocks, exclusion and
  poverty on families
• Make special provisions to reach children who are
  particularly vulnerable and excluded
• Consider intra-household dynamics that affect how
  the children may be reached
• Include the voice and opinion of children in the
  design
• DFID, HelpAge International, HopeHomes for
  Children, Institute of Development Studies,
  International Labour Organisation, Overseas
  Development Instituted, Save the Children UK,
  UNDP, UNICEF, World Bank

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Carmona Child Welfare and Cash Transfers

• Recent literature reviews to look into the
  evidence on synergies between social welfare
  services and cash transfers.
• The ways in which contact opportunities
  associated with transfers might help identify
  vulnerable households and link them with social
  welfare services.
• The impact of embedding social welfare services
  within schools in areas where cash transfers are
  conditional on school attendance.
• The extent to which evaluations of cash transfer
  schemes have considered / documented child
  protection outcomes.
• The role of SWS in facilitating access to social
  transfers in contexts where cash transfers are
  not reaching the poorest.
• Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies special
  issue 2009

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Alternative Care

• UN Guidelines for the Appropriate Use and
  Conditions of Appropriate Care
• Intended to enhance the implementation of the
  Convention on the Rights of the Child, and of
  relevant provisions of other international
  instruments, regarding the protection and
  well-being of children who are deprived of
  parental care or who are at risk of being so.
• Preventing the need for alternative care
• Framework for care provision
• Determining the appropriate form of care
• Care provision
• Care for children outside their country
• Care for children in emergencies
• HRC Resolution to forward these to the GA for
  consideration of adoption watch this space
• Complement to the Indicators for Children in
  Formal Care

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Alternative Care

• Better Care Network - ww.bettercarenetwork.org
• Better Care Network was announced at the first
  Global Partners Forum, October 2003, Geneva
• Steering Committee - DCOF, USAID (Africa Bureau),
  UNICEF, CARE USA, Save the Children UK, Bernard
  van leer Foundation Firelight Foundation
• BCN contributes to increased information
  exchange, collaboration and advocacy for improved
  care for children without adequate parental care
• BCN supports information exchange, technical
  guidance and research, national and regional
  chapters (mostly in sub-Saharan Africa) and
  global advocacy
• Faith to Action - www.faithbasedcarefororphans.org
  
• This is a joint initiative that provides
  information and resources to U.S. Christian
  churches and faith-based organizations (FBOs)
  seeking to address the needs of orphans and
  vulnerable children in Sub-Saharan Africa
• The initiative advocates for the support of
  family and community-based approaches, rather
  than the building of orphanages as a first
  response to the needs of children orphaned and
  made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS and other causes

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CP Systems

• CP systems - a set of laws, policies,
  regulations and services, capacities, monitoring,
  and oversight needed across all social
  sectorsespecially social welfare, education,
  health, security, and justiceto prevent and
  respond to protection-related risks.
• Responsibilities often spread across government
  agencies.
• Services often delivered by local authorities,
  non-State providers, and community groups.
• Coordination and referral mechanisms across a
  range of sectors and service providers are
  examples of critical functions of a cp system.
• Adequate human resources and management are
  examples of critical capacities for a CP system
  to function.

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CP Systems Update

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Taking forward the Framework?

• July 2004 Framework for the Protection, Care and
  support of Orphans and vulnerable Children Living
  in World with AIDS
• 2007 companion paper to Framework developed
• JLICA, IATT and others new evidence and best
  practice
• Do we need to update the companion document
  particularly in relation to
• vulnerability in context of HIV/AIDS
• What this means for targeting
• Child sensitive social protection
• Increased concerns about cost-effectiveness
• Regional responses for different epidemic
  contexts
• How to make this more operational to ensure
  policy into practice?
• What engagement would IATT want in this exercise
  reference group, peer review etc?
• Opportunities to launch document Vienna/GPF?

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Costing of OVC response

• Important for two reasons
• To assess global resourcing needs
• To develop models to support national costing and
  budgeting efforts
• UNICEF commissioned London School Hygiene and
  Tropical medicine to develop costing model
• Need agreement on key variables - defining
  vulnerability in context of HIV/AIDS (and
  numbers of CABA)
• Key elements of support for CABA and costing
  the package
• Questions how to take this forward but agreement
  that models should be developed collaboratively
  with others e.g. UNAIDS, USG and World Bank

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Social protection planning with UNAIDS co-sponsors

• UNAIDS outcome framework 9 priority areas
• 9th priority area on social protection
• UNAIDS convening planning process with UNICEF,
  WFP, ILO and others to develop business plan to
  ensure more coherent social protection response
• Important to ensure new planning process builds
  on existing convening structures (IATT/RIATTs)
  and agreed position papers.