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This study seeks to improve understanding of the risks and types of sexual and gender-based violence faced by children who migrate on their own, as well as the unfortunate and widespread gaps in protection and assistance for these children. It looks closely at the situation in dangerous or remote locations – places that are fragile, conflict-ridden, underserved and hard to reach, where children may be particularly vulnerable.
The study also identifies actions that are urgently needed, by governments and humanitarian organizations, to better protect and assist children migrating on their…
Le 1er avril 2017, Terre des Hommes (TdH), ENDA et le Mouvement Africain des Enfants et Jeunes Travailleurs (MAEJT) ont lancé le Projet pour la Protection des Enfants Migrants le long du Corridor Abidjan-Lagos (CORAL), soit dans les cinq pays suivants : Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Bénin et Nigeria. L'objectif principal du projet CORAL est de renforcer les services de protection de l'enfance pour les enfants migrants et les enfants concernés par la migration, en améliorant l'accès à ces services, en renforçant les services existants, en créant de nouveaux services et en aidant à l'intégration…
On April 1st 2017, Terre des hommes (Tdh), ENDA and the African Movement of Working Children and Youth (AMWCY) began the Project for the Protection of Migrant children along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor (CORAL) in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. CORAL’s core purpose is to strengthen child protection services for migrant children and children affected by migration, including increasing access to those services, reinforcing existing services, creating new ones, and stimulating synergies between the formal and the informal actors. The present document constitutes the baseline report…
Child Migrants Along the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor (CORAL)’s core purpose is to strengthen child protection services for migrant children and children affected by migration, including increasing access to those services, reinforcing existing services, creating new ones, and stimulating synergies between the formal and the informal actors. This research brief is based on a baseline study carried out in the first phase of the project to help identify situated approaches to implementation, drawing evidence from all five countries but aiming for locally specific actions and solutions. The brief…
This Strategic Paper, from the Igarapé Institute, reviews emerging capabilities of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to prevent violence against children in the Global South. The paper features case studies from Benin, Brazil, Kenya, Uganda and other countries and presents key findings from the review of emerging technological trends, typologies, and threats around the world, including findings on the use of technology in family tracing related to children separated from their families during emergencies.
This report from SOS Children’s Villages and the University of Bedfordshire provides reviews and assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children in 21 countries around the world. The report is aimed at enhancing knowledge around violence against children in alternative care (especially what makes children vulnerable and what puts them at risk) and providing policymakers and practitioners insight into the challenges of protecting children from violence as well as recommendations for change.
The report offers several key findings from an extensive…
This report - produced by SOS Children’s Villages, Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland, and the University of Malawi - is based on a synthesis of eight assessments of the implementation of the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children (“the Guidelines”) in Benin, Gambia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
It considers common challenges to implementing the Guidelines identified in the eight countries and provides a platform for effective advocacy to promote every child’s right to quality care. At the end of each chapter, the report provides…
Existing scientific literature reveals that fostering is common in Africa, especially West Africa. However, little research has focused on the relationship between fostering and schooling.
By their nature, school statistics make it possible neither to study the factors influencing family schooling practices, nor to shed light on the relationship between family structures and school attendance. Aside from the pupils' age and sex, they provide no information on the children's individual and family characteristics, place of birth, family status; on the age, marital status, ethnicity, religion…