Stahili joins an alliance of 250 organisations calling for an improved global monitoring framework for assessing the needs of the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations. Children in orphanages and other institutions, much like street children or children who are homeless or victims of trafficking, are often not recorded in official statistics and so fall off the map when it comes to international policies on children’s rights.

Stahili strongly urges the United Nations and its Member States to ensure that children living outside of households and/or without parental care are included in data collection surveys, and that the methodologies used to count children reach the most vulnerable and marginalised groups such as children living in institutional care.

Read below the full letter to the United Nations sent by 250 organisations including Stahili.

Here is the link to the letter with the list of signatories.