Child reunification and appropriate alternative care

This indicator measures the percentage of registered unaccompanied and/or separated children who were reunified with their families or caregivers or received appropriate alternative care services.

According to UNICEF:
Unaccompanied children are children who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for their care.

Separated children are defined as those separated from both parents, or from their previous legal or customary primary caregiver, but not necessarily from other relatives.

Appropriate Alternative Care: formal or informal alternative care placement of children in line with the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children.

Actively case managed: the children who are counted in the denominator for this indicator should only be the total number of children who SC/partners are actively case managing. A case management or FTR process will usually include registration, assessment, tracing/support planning, reunification/ placement, and follow-up. If a case has been closed because the child/family has moved out of the operational area, the child turned 18 years old, or the child died, etc., these cases should not be counted in the denominator. (Appropriate Care Indicator Guidance (SC)

Number of children registered for family tracing and reunification, reintegration, or family-based alternative care by Save the Children who were reunified with their families or caregivers or received appropriate alternative care services

Total number of children registered for family tracing and reunification, reintegration, or family-based alternative care by Save the Children who were being actively case-managed