Family Tracing and Reunification

[1] During major crises, children can become separated from their families for a wide range of reasons, and government disaster relief agencies as well as NGOs have developed inter-agency procedures to return children, and other vulnerable people, to their families.

[5][6][7][8] While the tool has been assessed as having some benefits, it has reportedly encountered significant challenges relating to relevance of the design and heavy dependence on internet in contexts with limited access.

The RapidFTR platform showed some promise and was used to track displaced children after Typhoon Haiyan[9] in the Philippines, but has been phased out in the more sizable South Sudan response in favour of more contextually suitable methods of registering separated families and managing related data.

'Community Based Interventions For Separated Children In Mozambique: The Family Tracing And Reunification Program.'.

Community Alternatives: International Journal of Family Care (1994): n. pag.