Browse our latest research and evaluation reports
As a result, they are too easily overlooked in policy creation and public funding allocation.
Through investing in evidence building, we work to amplify the voices of street-connected and vulnerable children and demonstrate effective and sustainable safeguarding solutions.
Across India, Tanzania and the UK, we build evidence to demonstrate the impact of our interventions so models can be replicated, both nationally and internationally.
Railway Children’s approach to research is:
This study is a mixed-methods research project on the experiences of children living alone on the streets in Tanzania and Kenya. The research aims to understand why children end up on the streets and to identify ways to improve their lives, highlighting the difficult circumstances that force children to leave home, the daily struggles they face, and their interactions with support agencies.
This executive summary describes the findings from a research project funded by Railway Children, which aimed to provide an up-to-date and realistic perspective of what it means to be "detached"—away from home or care for long periods in the UK—and to provide policy and practice recommendations to meet the needs of this vulnerable group.
This booklet presents a strategy developed by the Safe Families Safe Children (SFSC) Coalition for working with "highly excluded children" who have been affected by violence in their homes. The strategy aims to help these children escape from interconnected "downward, mutually-reinforcing spirals" of violence, exclusion, and poverty.
This mixed-methods study, which included surveys of 253 adults and interviews with 31 young adults, explores the effects of residential care on children in Tanzania.
The report evaluates the Railway Children Africa (RCA) Fit Persons intervention from 2018 to 2021. The intervention's goal is to provide temporary homes for children living on the streets to help them reunite with their families.
This report evaluates the Youth Association Model, a strategy to empower street-working youth. It assesses the model's effectiveness in three Tanzanian cities: Dar es Salaam, Iringa, and Mwanza.
This is a rapid assessment in of Railway Children Africa's (RCA) care reform work in Tanzania, funded by a grant from UBS-Optimus. The evaluation focused on five key areas: supporting the reintegration of children from the streets, a parenting program, the use of "fit persons," helping orphanages transition to community hubs, and building an alliance for care reform advocacy.
This case study was conducted by the Contextual Safeguarding team from the University of Durham. It details the work of Railway Children Africa in Mwanza, Tanzania, supporting "street-connected" young people aged 7-24.
The United Nations General Comment No. 21 provides guidance for governments on how to protect the human rights of children in street situations. It was developed in consultation with over 1,000 children and young people who have lived on the streets, ensuring their voices were heard.
This report provides a supplementary analysis of the Railway Children Africa Community Care project, which operated from 2018 to 2021 in four cities in Tanzania. The project's goal was to engage community volunteers to provide first-level interventions and support for children and youth living on the streets.
