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Ce rapport de recherche sur l’impact de la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les enfants travailleurs et en situation de handicap ainsi que sur les enfants talibés, montre que les enfants les plus vulnérables et marginalisés sont les victimes cachées de cette crise au Sénégal. L’objectif des deux recherches a été de donner la parole aux enfants les plus vulnérables et marginalisés que nous n’entendons jamais.
This research report presents the findings of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on working, disabled, and talibé children in Senegal and demonstrates that the most vulnerable and…
This report explores children and young people’s views and experiences related to COVID-19 and its indirect impacts. Firstly, it looks at children and young people’s perceptions of how COVID-19 has had an impact on their lives and countries. Secondly, it seeks to highlight the ways in which they are working to help to stop the spread of the virus and lessen its impacts.
This research included individual and group interviews with 160 children and young people (80 girls and 80 boys) between the ages of of nine and 18 from eight countries across West Africa: Central…
Child fostering is a widespread practice in Africa, whereby children are sent temporarily to another household to be raised by foster parents, while links with biological parents are not severed. In Senegal, about 14% of adults were fostered in their childhood. Using data from a nationally representative household survey conducted in Senegal in 2006-2007, the survey Pauvreté et Structure Familiale, this paper examines the outcomes for adults who have been fostered in their childhood, including children fostered to Koranic schools. It focuses its analysis on education, first…
In Sub-Saharan Africa, child fostering (confiage) is a common practice whereby children are temporarily sent by their parents to live with a host family. In Senegal, nearly 10% of the children are currently fostered and 32% of the households either send or receive foster children. The widespread nature of this tradition calls for a better understanding of its motivation and its impact.
Child fostering has been viewed as a tradition with potentially negative outcomes for children. Using data from a nationally representative household survey conducted in 2006-2007, the survey …
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…