Executive Summary
The systematic review identifies, synthesizes and evaluates existing evidence of the impact of protection interventions on unaccompanied and separated children in humanitarian crises since 1983. It considers the impact of such interventions undertaken during the period that these children are separated from parents or other caregivers and not during reintegration or long-term alternative care.
Findings
Family Tracing and Reunification
- The scale of separation in Rwanda is unparalleled in the evidence
- There is some indication that the scale of separation may be greater in conflicts than in natural disasters
- Although challenging to attribute, the evidence included in this study indicates an increase in rates of reunification over time
- A number of studies identified factors that had a positive influence on rates of reunification:
- effective coordination between UN, NGOs, civil society organizations and governments
- engaging with communities in the identification, tracing and reunification process
- capacity-building being integral to programming and systems building
- effective information management
- adequate sustained programme funding.
Interim care
- Outcomes for children living in residential care were mixed
- Outcomes for children in foster care were generally, but not consistently, positive the findings from this review are not enough in themselves to confirm or refute the prioritization of foster care over residential care as a norm for interim care in emergencies.
General child protection programmes (no studies found)
Recommendations related to general child protection programming
- No studies were identified that evaluate outcomes for UASC involved in general child protection programmes in humanitarian contexts. This perhaps reflects the newness of approaches such as child protection case management in humanitarian response, which would be expected to generate such data.
- The humanitarian child protection sector should work to systematically analyse case management data, disaggregating by separation status and taking into account age,
- gender and other key variables related to child protection risks and vulnerabilities.
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