Overview

The object of this evaluation is the national child care reform initiatives between 2009 to 2021 with a focus on deinstitutionalisation, including in particular for children with disabilities in the selected countries - Armenia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Georgia, Serbia, Belarus and Tajikistan. The purpose of the evaluation will be to provide a rigorous assessment of national governments’ and UNICEF’s results to date (outcome and impact level) in DI child care reforms supporting children with disabilities and other highly marginalized and vulnerable children in the region – taking into consideration considerable variability across countries and sectors. This will provide objective assessment of strengths and weaknesses in approaches taken by different countries as well as insights on how to address possible system level bottlenecks. The evaluation will be instrumental for further interrogating the progress that has been made in the region in terms of DI with the focus on outcomes and impacts, but also for looking specifically at key common bottlenecks, and exploring where and what types of effective solutions to those bottlenecks have been implemented by national governments including those conducted with support of UNICEF and why they were or were not successful. In particular, there is a need to look at the key accelerators to ensure particularly children with disabilities are appropriately included in deinstitutionalisation efforts. Therefore, the evaluation will be important for harvesting good practices, and sharing experiences on what worked across the region to inform next stages of reforms.

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