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This brief paper highlights some of Young Lives key findings on violence affecting children, exploring what children say about violence, how it affects them, and the key themes that emerges from a systematic analysis of the children’s accounts. Young Lives is a unique 15-year longitudinal study of children growing up in poverty in Ethiopia, India (in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. Young Lives research combines survey and qualitative methods, focussed on the causes and consequences of childhood poverty for children’s well-being (see Appendix for further…
This study sought to inform improvements in service delivery of Retrak’s Independent Living programme by listening to and documenting the voices of participants. The interviewees were asked for feedback on the support they received and their ideas for improvement and aspirations. The ideas and experiences of these young people highlighted the importance of supportive relationships, gaining skills and finding employment, as well as feeling included and accepted by their communities. The stories they shared have provided Retrak with valuable insights into how to better support our…
Kinship care in Ethiopia is embedded within the socio-cultural and economic context of the Ethiopian family system as alternative child care option, where by relatives assume greater responsibility for the provision of psychosocial and economic care of children who are orphans or those unable to live with their parents as a result of several factors. The kinship bond in Ethiopia includes family members related with the orphan children either by blood, marriage, clan, friendship, and or other deliberately created social ties.
This album presents viewpoints of children and young people, who…
This study investigates the effects of Community Care Coalitions on child protection in Assosa City, Ethiopia. It explores services and strategies employed by Community Care Coalitions to address child protection, as well as challenges faced by Community Care Coalitions while attempting to provide these services. This paper points out how Mizrahi and Rosenthal state that successful coalition building has the following four basic components; condition, commitment, contributions and competence. Senbeta also points out how politics can have significant effects on coalition building…
In this research paper Asnakech Tesfaye explores the expectations of Ethiopian children applying for an Australian Orphan Visa. Tesfaye’s research found children applying for visas expected to get better education, employment, material benefits and living conditions. Children were concerned about how they would be treated by relatives abroad. Tesfaye noted a lack of clarity on the legal protection that these children should receive in international kinship care arrangements. He found them to be in a precarious socio-legal situation.
Tesfaye notes that at five million orphans,…
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This interpretive study examines the experiences of 54 Ethiopian emerging adults who had aged out of institutional care facilities. Findings are derived from interviews and focus groups in which questions and activities focused on the challenges faced by participants and the supports they relied on throughout the transition process. These young adults reported facing many challenges upon leaving care, including difficulty finding gainful and interesting employment, a lack of many basic life skills, difficulty finding a support network, and significant stigma in the community due…
This video features a segment of a talk on the effects of care environments on children, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans. The key speakers featured include Dr. Kathryn Whetten & Dr. Charles Nelson, who discuss the Positive Outcomes for Orphans study (POFO) and the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), respectively.
Dr. Nelson speaks about the institutionalization of children and its impact on the brain development of institutionalized children. Many children in institutions, says Dr. Nelson, experience isolation, a lack of response to distress, a…
Developed while researching child-headed households in five Ethiopian towns and their rural surroundings, this book presents the experiences and stories of individual child household heads. The stories are a sample of experiences of millions of children living in child-headed households across Africa, revealing both the gravity of their situations as well as the urgent need for action in terms of advocacy, policy and legislative development, social mobilization and program design.
Violence against children remains a pervasive, but largely ignored issue in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa. This is certainly the case in Ethiopia, where children regularly face humiliating physical punishment and psychological abuse at home, in school and in the community-at-large. Children endure painful and harmful acts against them, primarily, and ironically, committed by those closest to them - parents, family members, neighbours, schoolteachers and peers. Violence comes in all shapes and forms including rape, beatings, bullying, sexual harassment, verbal abuse,…