This document discusses orphaned children in Southern African countries due to HIV/AIDS and adoption policies and practices. It notes that hundreds or thousands of orphaned children have been placed in institutional care facilities with poor conditions. The document examines questions around pre-placement care, medical records, and post-placement services for adopted children. It also discusses maintaining biological families when possible, domestic adoption options, assessing children's eligibility for adoption, and ensuring adopted children have safe and permanent homes.

1. the Duke of Africa™
Foundation®
Centre for Policy Research and Advocacy
Katlego Duke
Founder
the Duke of Africa Foundation®

2. Ethics of Adoption
Reflections on the Hague Adoption Convention and HCIA Implementation
Changing Patterns of Inter-country Adoption
Inter-country Cooperation
Children’s Rights
Other notable Findings
*Tipping point e.g. orphans crisis
*Biological Connections
*Routine Adoption Practice e.g. Within-Country adoptions
*Mechanisms for Collaboration(Professionals’ Voices)
*Safeguards to Prevent Abduction/Sale/Trafficking
Findings

3. Case study Orphaned Children (age range 0-16years-
Hiv/Aids related)
 Questions about adoption should be asked
 child’s pre-placement care?
 medical records and
 post-placement services needed and used?
Countries also have had their unique paths towards addressing (OVCY) . The common
denominator among them, however is that they generally do not have developed child
welfare systems that included adoption –and, commonly, did not include out-of-
family adoption as a culturally acceptable/viable type of family formation.
In some countries, institutional care has been the placement of choice, resulting in
hundreds or thousands of children tended to in sometimes appalling conditions
The questions for professionals in addressing best policies/practices regarding adoption
include;
 maintaining children in their biological families,
 domestic options available when children cannot remain in their biological families,
assessing and confirming children’s eligibility for adoption (domestic and ICA),
children with special needs(HIV/AIDS related), matching families to children, and
 ensuring safe and viable socio-economic and permanent homes for OVCY.

4. We need family oriented
Approaches
 Minimum, socially acceptable standards of living-
UN/SADC and national priorities
Orphanages, foster care, institutional care and different placement types
etc
 Logic Model Builder Family Support Services-
Adoption process(what makes up a family)
 Logic Model Builder for Post-adoption Services
Interest in the Logic Model of ADOPTION?
 Maximum, socio-economic acceptable standard of living-
Through the Duke of Africa foundation and partners
 Initiate adoption awareness templates e.g.
different state laws but integrated to the SADC, policies and cultural values
 Document sustainable OVCY holistic welfare and adoption process plan e.g. improve incentives for
adoption
 To assist in developing an evaluation plan e.g. quarterly , mid year and annually
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infections
0 deaths
0 stigma
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With an average of 7% increase of orphans related to HIV/AIDS since 1990 -2010
Source UNAIDS 2010 Global Report
Youth is a Transient state-Over 40% population
Source Mo Ibrahim Forum 2012 Stats & figures

5. Talking the right talk
•Expanded opportunities for transient vulnerable youth living programs
providing education, training, and employment services, and financial support
for OVYC youth to prepare for living on their own
•The SADC Secretariat should develop outcome
measures to assess State performance in
operating sustainable living programs for OVYC
including adoption cases
»Require States to use reasonable efforts to move
eligible foster/institutional care children towards
permanent home placements

6. AIDS orphans as a percentage of all orphans, 2009
Botswana 72%
Zimbabwe 71%
Swaziland 69%
Lesotho 65%
Malawi 65%
Zambia 53%
South Africa 56%
The 3 action target solutions against 3
fold 0s:
firstly new HIV infections must be prevented so that children do not lose their
parents;
secondly access to antiretroviral treatment needs to be stepped up; and
finally care must be provided for those children who are already orphaned-
ADOPTION CAMPAGINS

7. » Mandate that State plans for foster/institutional care and adoption assistance
include certification that prospective parents will be adequately prepared to
provide for the needs of the child and that such preparation will continue, as
necessary, after placement of the child
 Emphasize permanence by requiring that efforts to
find a permanent placement continue concurrently
with older youth independent living activities
 Increased funding for adoption incentives for states, capacity
partners and prospective parents
»Prohibit States from delaying/denying placements of children based on the
geographic location of the prospective adoptive families
» Accelerated permanent placement: »Require States to initiate court
proceedings to free a child for adoption once that child had
been waiting in foster/institutional care for at least 15 of the
most recent 22 months, unless there is an exception
including
 allowed children to be freed for adoption more
quickly in extreme cases

8. »National data collection on
ADOPTION services,
cases and individuals served, and
 outcomes
»Extended categories of services to include time-
limited biological reunification services and
adoption promotion and support services
» Ensured health and safety concerns are
addressed when a State determines placement for
OVYC
»Reauthorize the Family Preservation and Adoption
Support Services Programs
“Start in the family CAMPAIGNs”
 Promoting every step of the adoption plan with adoptees
Adoption month/International adoption day
commemoration activities e.g. BONELA Dept of Social
services

9.  Promote safe and meaningful adoptions
»Reward States that increased adoptions with
incentives funds-
»Promote adoptions of special needs children
and ensured health coverage for adopted special
needs children
Require States to document and report child-specific adoption
efforts-To reduce an increasing problem-ORPHANS
» Increased accountability: »Secretariat to establish new outcome
measures to monitor and improve State performance
» Clarified ‘’reasonable safeguards’’:»Emphasize children’s psychological
welfare health and safety
 Major outcomes
through
Family structure
 Emotional and psychological
 Education
 Socio-economic impact

10. Dr Mo
Ibrahim
Walking the right
walk
EXPERIENCES
Greater transparency and consistency in the local/domestic and international adoption processes can
increase focus on the best interests of and protections for children who need families and eliminate
new infections
deaths
stigma & discrimination

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legislation, the criminal justice system, voting rights, immigration, and civic
engagement, among others.
 Health – this pillar refers to various aspects related to physical and mental wellness,
violence, safety, food security and access to affordable care.
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municipal and state solvency and economy fall under this category.
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13. Youth engagement by any means necessary
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Katlego Duke Kesa Pharatlhatlhe
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