Investing in children & families to avoid unnecessary separation

In Africa, civil society is tremendously getting active in the movement pushing for investment for children and families so as to prevent the unnecessarily separation of family members. Civil society organisations are meaningfully and structurally involved in the process of investment for children by governments. Hence, civil society organisations take part in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating social and other relevant policies as well as identifying and mapping best practices. Nevertheless, strategies should additionally be implemented to map and promote cross-country experience exchange among civil society such as the exchange meeting held in 2013 among the child care networks and platforms of Togo and Benin (FODDET-CLOSE, 2013). Across Africa, Civil society face some problems such as political instability, disconnection from rural organizations,
lack of unity, inadequate funding, government patronage, lack of internal democracy, lack of skills, corruption and lack of state support and partnership. Civil society should be supported to get strengthened so as to ensure effective service delivery for families through the creation of an enabling environment for their operation and to maintain a high degree of independence from the government11 (Omede & Bakare, 2014).