This toolkit is primarily for individuals working at organisations that assist and support children and young people in their reintegration back into families and communities. The toolkit will be of particular relevance to individuals who are involved in the planning of programmes and the implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities. The toolkit provides ideas, examples and suggestions of how organisations could collect monitoring and evaluation data with, from and about the children and young people they work with.

The Adolescence Research Digest is a new quarterly publication by UNICEF’s Office of Research-Innocenti. This synthesizes the latest research evidence, resources and news related to adolescent well-being in low- and middle-income countries. 

World of Children Award, a nonprofit organization that provides funding and recognition to individuals working on behalf of vulnerable children worldwide, is currently accepting Nominations for its prestigious 2016 Protection Award, which recognizes a hero who has made a significant contribution to children through anti-trafficking and/or anti-slavery intervention so that they can live free from fear, abuse and exploitation. 

The purpose of this commentary is to articulate why focusing on both program and context offers policymakers a more promising pathway for achieving meaningful and sustainable improvements in a child’s well-being and healthy development.

In light of a UN meeting this week to review indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Lumos, along with the Better Care Network and over 170 other organizations, have signed a letter to the UN urging the inclusion of children living outside of households and/or without parental care in UN data collection. 

A woman who was adopted from China to the United States in the early 1990s has authored this moving piece for Foreign Policy, detailing her search for her birth family, and the many birth families she met along the way who miss and long for information on their “lost,” or “abandoned” daughters.

In a joint open letter to the Inter-Agency Expert Group on the SDGs, children’s NGOs and leading disability-rights organizations, have appealed to the UN to ensure that “children living outside of households and/or without parental care” are included in the SDGs monitoring framework.

Catholic Relief Services is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor-Research and Learning for Vulnerable Children and Child Protection, 4Children located in Baltimore, MD, USA. Candidates are encouraged to apply by 20 March 2016.

UNICEF, UNFPA and partners are will host: #ENDviolence against Children and Adolescents with Disabilities, a side event for the 60th Session of the CSW and for World Down Syndrome Day