Community Based Alternative Care as a Strategy for Protecting Burundian Refugee Girls and Boys: A Case Study from Mahama Camp, Rwanda

Plan International. 04/26/2017 This 12-page case study describes the community-based child protection program implemented between 2015 and 2016 with Burundian girls, boys, and adults in the Mahama refugee camp in Rwanda. The program provided an alternative care system with independent living arrangements for unaccompanied Burundian children. A local, community-based work force of refugees was trained to supervise these children locally and respond to their protection concerns. A key success of the program was the successful identification of separated and unaccompanied children through collaboration between community members and families. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 4, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news