The Transition Roadmap is designed to provide CCI leaders and practitioners with the guidance and necessary resources to navigate this transition journey safely and effectively. While being legally compliant and staying true to your identity to see children cared for as an organisation in the context of family and community-based care for the child's best interest.

Step 1.1: Learn the Reasons for Transition: During this step, organisations work to understand the reasons for transition. This includes the academic basis as well as a practical understanding of adult outcomes from institutional care.

Step 1.2: Understand the Legal Framework: During this step, organisations understand the global and national legal framework for the transition. This includes the UNCRC, Kenya Constitution, and the Children Act 2022.

Step 1.3: Key Stakeholder Engagement: During this step, organisations engage with key stakeholders impacted by the transition and gather feedback on the potential decision. The purpose is to inform the decision making process and ensure buy-in through early engagement.

Step 1.4: Decision Making Process: During this step, organisations reflect on their historical decision-making culture and define a healthy process for making the decision to ensure the process is completed efficiently and with a participatory approach.

Step 1.5: Making the Decision: A Statement of Strategic Intent to transition the organisation is drafted, reviewed, and approved by all key decision makers. It is unnecessary to address every question, worry, or risk before making this decision to transition. The next Phase, Preparing for Transition, will ensure that the decision is put into action effectively.

Milestone | Decided to Transition: An organisation has completed Phase 1 once it has decided to transition in the child’s best interest while remaining in compliance with Care Reform, the Children Act 2022, and the National Care Reform Strategy.

Phase 3, “Implementing the Transition” is the final phase, where the organisation puts its carefully crafted Phase 2 transition plan into action under the guidance of CCI leaders. The goal is to safely and effectively transition while ensuring the process is in the child’s best interest.

Step 3.1: Employee Development: Employee development typically includes various training and professional development opportunities for social workers, counsellors, caregivers, and management teams. It is important to communicate with the staff during the retraining process and provide them with feedback and support. Additionally, it is good to have regular check-ins with staff to see how they are progressing in their new role and to address any issues or concerns that may arise.

Step 3.2: Piloting and Validation: During the implementation phase of a program, it is essential to conduct both piloting and validation to ensure program success. Piloting involves testing the entire program, but on a small scale, to identify any areas that need improvement. On the other hand, validation entails separately testing key specific aspects of the program to ensure they meet the set standards and criteria. Before implementing the full program, it's important to test, prove, and validate that your program activities are safe and effective.

Step 3.3: Program Implementation: At this point, you will begin full implementation of the new organisational and program designs at scale. All your preparation, planning, and validation proves itself, and the new organisational changes and programs begin fully. There will be reduced risks, issues, and failures if proper preparation, planning, and validation have been completed successfully.

Step 3.4: Monitoring and Evaluation: Although Monitoring and Evaluation should be conducted throughout the entire transition process, at this step that is all that remains: to continue monitoring the performance of programs, evaluating their safety and effectiveness, and gathering lessons learnt to continuously improve program performance.

Milestone | Complete Implementation: The organisation has implemented their transition plan fully, resolved issues or risks that emerged during the implementation, and transitioned from being a Charitable Children's Institution (CCI) to a Child Welfare Program (CWP), prioritising care for children within the context of family and community. The new CWP is now operating in a model that is in alignment with the Children Act 2022, the National Care Reform Strategy, and other supporting documents