Part 17 of the explanation with the ToC: Whether this step is relevant, depends on the circumstances of your transition. If you are working with or for the government at the national level to set up a family-based alternative care system, obviously there is no need to get the government more involved in the process and the system.
However, if you work at the grassroots level, or if you work with or for an NGO to get family-based alternative care established – as is the case in many places – it is important not just to keep doing things yourself, but to continually encourage and lobby government departments of different levels to become involved and to gradually take over the reins of the operation. Because a system as complicated and all-pervasive as social and child protection can only be truly sustainable if the government has a strong involvement in it, or at the very least provides financial support and monitoring.
Getting the government to really become involved in social and child protection and family-based alternative care is something that runs right through the process, including the advocacy and capacity building stages. The reason to mention it here separately is, as mentioned, because of the importance of government backing – this may be local government, state government or national government, depending on the scale of your project and on the way your country is governed – of the family-based alternative care and family-strengthening systems. If up to this point you have not been able to achieve any substantial government involvement yet, you are going to have to ramp up your advocacy campaign to do so.
If you would like to read the explanation with the model from the very start, you can go HERE.
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