Welcome to the Annual Meeting of the West Africa Network for Child Protection (WANCP), a regional co
ISSWA
This is the story of Omar Sow, now 28 years old. As a child, he left school early on to join the Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY)
ECOWAS Care Procedures and Standards for the Protection and Reintegration of Vulnerable Children on the Move and Young Migrants
The West Africa Network for the Protection of Children (WAN) is a vast network of State and civil society actors that has developed, over time, a common methodology for caring for vulnerable children.
Through WAN, dozens of displaced families in poverty benefit from economic strengthening in Burkina Faso, for better protection of their children.
Alternative care for children: International Social Service (ISS) builds the capacity of foster families in Burkina Faso
As part of the fight against COVID-19, the International Service Social – West Africa (ISS-WA) has made donations to shelters for children difficulties in Burkina Faso.
The insecurity affecting the Sahel has left hundreds of thousands of people displaced, including many children and young people. In the "9th" district of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, some large families are settled and live in precarious conditions, with food, economic, sanitary and housing problems. Sensitive to the situation of internally displaced children and young people and faithful to its commitment in their favour, ISS-WA, through WAN, set up in December 2019, as a matter of urgency, an initiative to promote the rights to education called INITIATIVE 1-2-3. A total of 123 of them have been supported in an educational project. Three months after their reintegration into schools, ISS-WA and the AMWCY organised a follow-up mission for these children and their families.
As a symbol, this year 2018 ended with the adoption of the Global Compact on Migration, and as a place of adoption th
