This International Dialogue on Kinship Care and Child Protection Systems is organized by Uyisenga ni Imanzi in collaboration with Family for Every Child (a global alliance of national civil society organizations working together to improve the lives of vulnerable children worldwide).
The Family’s thinking is the conviction that to reach their full potential, every child has the right to grow up in a safe family environment, and hence the need to strengthen Kinship care because it is one of the solutions of the problems children are facing.
Participants to the symposium are experts, partners and practitioners coming from Rwanda, the UK, the Netherlands, Turkey, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Cambodia, Russia, Mexico,USA, Guyana, Brazil and Colombia.
UYISENGA NI IMANZI, in an attempt to respond to the needs of children, has shared a community driven approach based on the potentialities within communities that can be scaled up to bring about tangible results to the care and support of OVCs. It is an innovative approach that is community-based, community owned, and integrated in such a way that it becomes cheap to run and, therefore, sustainable in the long0term. Its specificity is that it brings on board joint structures (children, teachers, parents/community members) working in network for improving child care, child well-being and providing child protection services.
The symposium is part of Family for Every Child General Assembly with the aim of exchanges between members of the alliance; it comes as a complement and an advocacy followed by field visit and additional activities.
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